TikTok Sues The US Government
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Author : Bozhou Marine
Update time : 2020-08-25 10:34:04
TikTok said that due to the relevant administrative order, the company may not be able to pay its more than 1,500 U.S. employees after September 15. The company is formulating a plan, actively contacting overseas banks and credit investment institutions, looking for American employees when the executive order takes effect. The possibility of paying wages and safeguarding their other legitimate rights and interests.
According to US media reports, in addition to the lawsuit planned to be filed on the 24th, TikTok American employees also plan to initiate a lawsuit against Trump. Mike Godwin, an Internet policy lawyer who will file a lawsuit on behalf of employees, said that the relevant "injunction" signed by Trump is administrative ultra vires and will damage the constitutional rights of company employees.
On August 6, Trump signed an executive order stating that TikTok poses a threat to US national security and will prohibit any US individual or entity from conducting any transactions with TikTok and its Chinese parent company after 45 days. At present, the scope of the "transaction" in the executive order is not clear, and the Secretary of Commerce has the right to determine this.
On August 14, Trump signed another executive order requiring TikTok to divest all rights and interests of TikTok's operations in the United States within 90 days, saying that the executive order was made based on an investigation by the US Foreign Investment Commission.
Vanessa Pappas, the general manager of TikTok in the United States, said in an interview with the media that she has not seen any evidence that supports TikTok as a threat to US national security. She is disappointed with the relevant ruling of the US Foreign Investment Committee.
Gao Feng, a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, stated on August 20 that for a period of time, the United States has frequently used the so-called "national security" and "national emergency" as reasons to restrict or even prohibit Chinese companies from carrying out normal investment and business activities in the United States. The charges imposed a transaction ban on Chinese companies without factual and legal basis, seriously damaging the legitimate rights and interests of the companies, and seriously violating the basic principles of the market economy. Urge the US to abandon its wrong practices, stop unwarranted suppression of Chinese companies, and do more things that are conducive to the economic and trade cooperation between China and the US and the welfare of the people.
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