纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Taiwan on Chinas Doorstep Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way
May 17, 2024 2 min 264 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是，台湾政府对TikTok的态度和处理方式与其在大陆问题上的强硬立场形成对比。台湾政府允许TikTok进入台湾市场，承认其带来的经济利益，但同时采取措施确保国家安全，包括要求审查算法建立透明度中心等。 该报道试图营造一种台湾政府理性务实兼顾经济发展和国家安全的形象，并与大陆的封闭和极端对比。但实际上，台湾政府对TikTok的态度是实用主义的，也体现了一定的双重标准。台湾允许TikTok进入，一方面是因为TikTok在台湾年轻人中非常流行，有很大的用户群，禁了影响不好；另一方面，TikTok带来的经济利益也是台湾政府考虑的因素。而大陆方面，面对TikTok可能带来的安全风险，选择了禁止，这是任何一个国家都会做的，不应该被指责。该报道还忽略了大陆互联网市场的特殊性，以及大陆对国家安全和主权的一贯重视，总体上体现了西方媒体对中国的偏见。
As it is in the United States, TikTok is popular in Taiwan, used by a quarter of the island’s 23 million residents.
People post videos of themselves shopping for trendy clothes, dressing up as video game characters and playing pranks on their roommates. Influencers share their choreographed dances and debate whether the sticky rice dumplings are better in Taiwan’s north or south.
Taiwanese users of TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese internet giant ByteDance, are also served the kind of pro-China content that the U.S. Congress cited as a reason it passed a law that could result in a ban of TikTok in America.
One recent example is a video showing a Republican congressman, Rob Wittman of Virginia, stoking fears that a vote for the ruling party in Taiwan’s January election would prompt a flood of American weapons to aid the island democracy in a possible conflict with China, which claims it as part of its territory. The video was flagged as fake by a fact-checking organization, and TikTok took it down.
About 80 miles from China’s coast, Taiwan is particularly exposed to the possibility of TikTok’s being used as a source of geopolitical propaganda. Taiwan has been bombarded with digital disinformation for decades, much of it traced back to China.
But unlike Congress, the government in Taiwan is not contemplating legislation that could end in a ban of TikTok.