[News] Trump dealt a "big blow" to Tik Tok and WeChat

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US President Donald Trump signed, on Thursday evening, two executive orders preventing financial dealings after 45 days with the owners of TikTok and WeChat on suspicion of Chinese exploitation of them.

The two orders came after President Donald Trump's administration said this week it was stepping up efforts to remove "untrusted" Chinese apps from US electronic app stores and described the apps "Tick Talk" and "WeChat" as "major threats."

Trump said in an executive order that the application of "Tik Tok" can be used in misinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist Party and the United States should "take strong measures against Tik Tok owners to protect our national security."

In another decree, Trump said (WeChat) "automatically collects massive information from his users. This data collection process threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party to access Americans' personal information.

The order will effectively prohibit the application of (WeChat) in the United States within 45 days by prohibiting "to the extent permitted by law, any transaction related to Boychat by any person or in relation to any property falling within the US jurisdiction."

This comes after the Senate passed a law to prevent federal employees from using TikTok on government agencies, after the House of Representatives approved a similar law.

The TikTok administration announced that it is working with experts from the US Department of Homeland Security to protect against foreign influences and to verify disinformation about the elections.

For his part, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that his country's hopes do not stop at banning “TikTok” from American phones, but also other Chinese applications that he considered a threat to national security.

Trump has put pressure on the Chinese group, "Petdance", to sell the application before mid-September to "Microsoft" or another American company, or he will ban it in the country.

The "Financial Times" newspaper reported, Thursday, that "Microsoft" is negotiating the purchase of the application's activities in the United States, and hopes to acquire the total of its global activities.

The American company confirmed its intention to buy "TikTok service in the United States, Canada and New Zealand."