it s eight in the morning in singapore, and 7pm in washington where a powerful house committee is debating wether to allow president biden to completely ban the chinese owned app, tiktok, which is used by more than 100 million americans. the white house has already ordered government agencies to wipe tiktok off federal devices within 30 days. and it s notjust the us. the european parliament has also banned the video sharing app from staff phones citing security reasons, following canada which imposed a similar ban. but china has hit out at the us and this is what a government spokesperson had to say. translation: the united states, the world number one superpower, is so afraid of a mobile phone application that young people like so much that they completely lack any self confidence. we firmly oppose the us s wrong approach to overstretching the concept of national security, abusing national power, and unreasonably suppressing the companies of other countries. earlier, i a
but i hope everything ll be all right at the end of the day. this is newsday on the bbc. i m mariko 0i in singapore. 0ur headlines is time running out for tiktok? china condemns the us government s decision to order all its agencies to delete the social media app. president biden s plan to cancel the student debts of millions of americans faces a challenge in the supreme court. the us secretary of state antony blinken has been holding talks in the kazakhstan capital astana with key central asian officials, including the kazakh president kassym jomart to kayev. mr blinken met with ministers from kyrgyzstan, turkmenistan, tajikistan and uzbekistan.