Executive Orders on Addressing the Threats Posed by TikTok and WeChat
President Donald Trump issued a pair of executive orders that will impose new limits on Chinese social-media apps TikTok and WeChat, effectively setting a 45-day deadline for an American company to purchase TikTok’s US operations. The orders bar people in the US or subject to US jurisdiction from transactions with the China-based owners of the apps, effective 45 days from Aug 6. That raises the possibility that US citizens would be prevented from downloading the apps in the Apple or Google app stores. One order argues that TikTok poses an economic and national-security threat to US interests. US officials have expressed concern that China’s authoritarian government would have access to the data TikTok collects from users, including Americans.
Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok Text of a Letter to the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat Text of a Letter to the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate on Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat Trump Executive Orders Target TikTok, WeChat Apps (WSJ)