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Australia should follow US lead on TikTok, say defence tech experts

Australia already has a reputation for taking on Chinese technological threats, and the government should now be doing that again, say a range of experts in Washington.

Matthew Cranston

Washington | Australia should consider copying a move by the US House of Representatives to force Chinese company ByteDance to divest its social media app TikTok based on national security concerns.

That’s the view of top defence technology experts in Washington after the House voted 352 to 65 in favour of a bill that would ban app stores from distributing the social media phenomenon in America if its China-based owner doesn’t sell it.

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Matthew Cranston was The Australian Financial Review’s United States correspondent.

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