The initiative would ban WeChat and TikTok from the online marketplaces operated by Apple and Google.on downloads of popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok and use of the messaging and payment platform WeChat, saying they threaten national security.
The move, to be implemented Sunday, comes amid rising US-China tensions and efforts by the Trump administration to"The Chinese Communist Party has demonstrated the means and motives to use these apps to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and the economy of the US," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement.The initiative would ban WeChat, an app with massive use among Chinese speakers, and TikTok from the online marketplaces operated by Apple and Google.
But while WeChat will effectively be shut down from Sunday in the US, existing TikTok user will be able to continue using the app until November 12 -- when it would also face a full ban on its US operations. But the Commerce Department said if national security concerns over TikTok were resolved before then, the order may be lifted.
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