Meta Platforms Inc.’s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, called into question the values of TikTok by invoking the anti-China rhetoric that’s become a trademark of lawmakers that want to expel his company’s rival from the US.

“TikTok, a hugely successful, highly dynamic and innovative Chinese company, is able to operate in the United States, but companies like Meta are not able to operate our social media services in China,” Clegg said in an interview Tuesday with Bloomberg TV. “So there is this issue of a kind of lack of a level playing field. And in the end, there’s always an underlying issue of values: What values are the underpinning of new technologies?”