Trump administration calls Chines-owned TikTok and WeChat ‘significant threats’. FMTNews Software CleanNetwork Technology US China
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration said on Wednesday it was stepping up efforts to purge “untrusted” Chinese apps from US digital networks and called the Chinese-owned short-video app TikTok and messenger app WeChat “significant threats.”
TikTok currently faces a deadline of Sept 15 to either sell its US operations to Microsoft Corp or face an outright ban.Relations are strained over the global coronavirus pandemic, China’s military buildup in the South China Sea, its increasing control over Hong Kong and treatment of Uighur Muslims, as well as Beijing’s massive trade surpluses and technological rivalry.
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.
The US has long been lobbying European and other allies to persuade them to cut out Huawei from their telecommunications networks.
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