US steps up campaign to purge 'untrusted' Chinese apps

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The United States wants to see 'untrusted' Chinese apps removed from US app stores, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, calling ...

TikTok currently faces a deadline of Sep 15 to either sell its US operations to Microsoft Corp or face an outright ban.

Pompeo said the United States was working to prevent Chinese telecoms firm Huawei from pre-installing or making available for download the most popular US apps on its phones. Pompeo said the State Department would work with other government agencies to protect the data of US citizens and American intellectual property, including COVID-19 vaccine research, by preventing access from cloud-based systems run by companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, China Mobile, China Telecom, and Tencent.

He said the State Department was also working to ensure China could not compromise information carried by undersea cables that connect the United States to the global internet.The United States has long been lobbying European and other allies to persuade them to cut out Huawei from their telecommunications networks. Huawei denies it spies for China and says the United States wants to frustrate its growth because no US company offers the same technology at a competitive price.

 

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