canada s parliament this afternoon. we get more now from cnn s paul newton inaudible. it is not an exaggeration to say that canada and the united states, two of the closest allies that you will find in the world, having said that president joe biden and prime minister justin trudeau do have policy disagreements are going to try and iron out some of those over the next few hours. key here, though, is the united states wanting canada to step up when it comes to defense spending. as the united states has made clear this is not the same geopolitical reality that it was before russia invaded ukraine, and they are looking to canada to do its part. also top of mind, though, is china and what both countries call a more aggressive posture from that country. chinese interference has been top of mine in canada, and i want you to listen now to my interview with justin trudeau just hours before he met. with joe biden. take a listen on china. we ve seen balloons in the air over canada. we ve seen
he replied to me and said that is impossible. so we ll see what happens. on monday. polar read, cnn, new york. well time may be running out for one of the most popular social media platforms in the u. s. lawmakers on capitol hill grilled the ceo of tiktok on thursday about their concerns that the app is harmful to children and a tool used by the chinese government to collect data and spy on americans. one congressman even called it a cancer, many lawmakers and the administration or pushing to bend the app in the u. s. tiktok ceo, denied any link to the chinese government and said he s seen no evidence that beijing has access to the data of americans, but his testimony seemed to fall on deaf ears. we get more now from cnn s manu raju. your platform should be banned. tiktok ceo shout to getting a bipartisan b rating. you well know that you cannot protect the data and security of this committee or 150 million
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influence what you do. and so this idea of this project texas is simply not acceptable. i have seen no evidence that the chinese government has access to that data. they have never asked us. we have not provided. you know what i asked that question. i find that actually preposterous. tiktok is used by more than a billion monthly active users worldwide, including 150 million in the united states. us. officials believe the chinese government can infiltrate by dance since it is under its jurisdiction, even though there is no public evidence that the chinese have used it to spy on americans. i ask you again, mr chu. has bite dance spied on american citizens . i don t think they re spying is the right way to describe it . the biden administration wants tiktok s chinese owners to sell their stakes in the company, something the chinese government opposes. tiktok is a subsidiary of biden s, which is founded by a chinese founder and by then is a chinese company. bytedance owns many businesses t
language really reveals beijing s dismay at the accusations that were hurled at the ceo of the popular chinese owned social media app during his five hour grilling on capitol hill. lawmakers accusing 40 year old harvard educated ceo shows each you of being under the influence of the chinese government through the beijing based parent company, bytedance now, even before the hearing, china s commerce ministry told the media that it would firmly opposed any for sale of tiktok, which is what the bindon administration has demanded if the social media app is to survive in the united states. the chinese government considers tiktok s algorithms and technology to be sensitive and critical to its natural interest . but let s have a listen to the mofa spokesperson a short time ago. i want to stress the chinese government attaches high importance to and protects in accordance with law, data, privacy and security. we have never asked and will never ask