United States president Donald Trump has issued two executive orders banning Chinese messaging service WeChat and made-in-China-but-only-operating-abroad social network TikTok, and labelling the two a “threat”.
The Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok has the following to say about the app:
The reasons advanced in the Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat are as follows:
The orders each say the United States “must take aggressive action” against each app’s owners “to protect our national security.”
That action appears to be a ban on “any transaction that is related to” either WeChat or TikTok, and the apps’ respective owners, “or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States”. It’s unclear what transactions are barred an ..
Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
