Trump says US 'may be banning' 中国-owned ビデオ app TikTok
NEW YORK (AP) - 大統領 Donald Trump said Friday that his 行政 is 重さを計るing 活動／戦闘 against TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned ビデオ app that has been a source of 国家の-安全 and 検閲 関心s.
Trump's comments （機の）カム after published 報告（する）／憶測s that the 行政 is planning to order 中国´s ByteDance to sell TikTok. There were also 報告（する）／憶測s Friday that ソフトウェア 巨大（な） Microsoft is in 会談 to buy the app.
"We are looking at TikTok," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We may be banning TikTok. We may be doing some other things. There a couple of 選択s, but a lot of things are happening. So we´ll see what happens."
報告（する）／憶測s by Bloomberg News and the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 特記する／引用するing 匿名の／不明の sources said the 行政 could soon 発表する a 決定／判定勝ち（する） ordering ByteDance to divest its 所有権 in TikTok.
There have been 報告（する）／憶測s of U.S. tech 巨大（な）s and 財政上の 会社／堅いs 存在 利益／興味d in buying or 投資するing in TikTok as the Trump 行政 始める，決めるs its sights on the app. The New York Times and Fox 商売／仕事, 特記する／引用するing an 身元不明の source, 報告（する）／憶測d Friday that Microsoft is in 会談 to buy TikTok. Microsoft 拒絶する／低下するd to comment.
TikTok 問題／発行するd a 声明 Friday 説 that, "While we do not comment on 噂するs or 憶測, we are 確信して in the long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 success of TikTok."
FILE - This Feb. 25, 2020, とじ込み／提出する photo, shows the icon for TikTok in New York. 大統領 Donald Trump will order 中国's ByteDance to sell its 攻撃する，衝突する ビデオ app TikTok because of 国家の-安全 関心s, によれば 報告（する）／憶測s published Friday, July 31, 2020. "We are looking at TikTok," Trump told reporters Friday at the White House. "We may be banning TikTok." (AP Photo/とじ込み／提出する)
ByteDance 開始する，打ち上げるd TikTok in 2017, then bought Musical.ly, a ビデオ service popular with teens in the U.S. and Europe, and 連合させるd the two. A twin service, Douyin, is 利用できる for Chinese 使用者s.
TikTok's fun, goofy ビデオs and 緩和する of use has made it immensely popular, and U.S. tech 巨大（な）s like Facebook and Snapchat see it as a 競争の激しい 脅し. It has said it has tens of millions of U.S. 使用者s and hundreds of millions globally.
But its Chinese 所有権 has raised 関心s about the 検閲 of ビデオs, 含むing those 批判的な of the Chinese 政府, and the 可能性のある for 株ing 使用者 data with Chinese 公式の／役人s.
TikTok 持続するs it doesn´t censor ビデオs based on topics 極度の慎重さを要する to 中国 and it would not give the Chinese 政府 接近 to U.S. 使用者 data even if asked. The company has 雇うd a U.S. CEO, a former 最高の，を越す Disney (n)役員／(a)執行力のある, in an 試みる／企てる to distance itself from its Chinese 所有権.
U.S. 国家の-安全 公式の／役人s have been reviewing the Musical.ly 取得／買収 in 最近の months, while U.S. 武装した 軍隊s have banned their 従業員s from 任命する／導入するing TikTok on 政府-問題／発行するd phones. 国務長官 マイク Pompeo said earlier this month that the U.S. was considering banning TikTok.
These 国家の-安全 worries 平行の a broader U.S. 安全 厳重取締 on Chinese companies, 含むing telecom providers Huawei and ZTE. The Trump 行政 has ordered that the U.S. stop 基金ing 器具／備品 from those providers in U.S. 網状組織s. It has also tried to steer 同盟（する）s away from Huawei because of worries about the Chinese 政府's 接近 to data, which the companies have 否定するd it has.
The Trump 行政 has stepped in before to 封鎖する or 解散させる 取引，協定s on 国家の-安全 関心s, 含むing stopping Singapore's Broadcom from its $117 billion 企て，努力，提案 for U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm in 2018 in an 成果／努力 to help 保持する U.S. leadership in the telecom space. It also told 中国's Beijing Kunlun Tech Co. to sell off its 2016 購入（する） of gay dating app Grindr.
Other countries are also taking 活動／戦闘 against TikTok. India this month banned dozens of Chinese apps, 含むing TikTok, 特記する／引用するing privacy 関心s, まっただ中に 緊張s between the countries.
