Government agencies have 30 days to delete TikTok from federal devices and systems, a White House official said Monday.
The directive from the Biden administration comes after the popular video app was banned by Congress on federal government devices in December.
"We firmly oppose the wrong practice of the United States to generalize the concept of national security, abuse state power, and unreasonably suppress firms from other countries," Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular news briefing, according to Agence France-Presse.