United States to ban TikTok and WeChat from September 20
- The ban was ordered saying the applications threaten national security
- The move comes amid escalating tensions between US and China
- US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said that the Chinese Communist Party had used these apps to threaten the national security
Chinese video-sharing and social networking application TikTok and multi-purpose messaging app WeChat will be banned in the United States from Sunday, reported AFP quoting officials.
US officials ordered a ban, saying they threaten national security. The move comes amid rising US-China tensions over technology and a Trump administration effort to engineer a sale of the video app TikTok to American investors.
“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.
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