The senior official also said the Trump administration had not been in contact with the Biden administration about the order. In a briefing Tuesday evening, a senior official with the Trump administration said that it still expected to prevail in those court cases, and that legal challenges to the TikTok and WeChat orders had centered on First Amendment rights, which would most likely not be a significant concern with the payment platforms and other apps affected by the latest order. Trump’s latest bans on Chinese services as well. That raises the question of whether American courts will issue an injunction to stop Mr. Last fall, the Trump administration issued executive orders banning two other popular Chinese-owned social media services, TikTok and WeChat.īut both of those bans have become entangled in litigation, and the services continue to operate in the United States. It has also targeted Chinese-owned social media services, saying they provide a conduit for Chinese espionage and pose a national security risk to the American public. Trump, the White House has ramped up tariffs and waged a trade war. The executive order is the latest escalation by the Trump administration against China. They say it’s worth the financial sacrifice. Ditching Prestige Jobs: Young people in the country are increasingly trading high-pressure, white-collar jobs for manual labor.Sodium Batteries: China is positioning itself to command the next big innovation in rechargeable batteries: replacing lithium with sodium, a far cheaper and more abundant material.Auto Industry: Domestic companies in China are now selling more vehicles than their multinational rivals, which have failed to keep up with Chinese consumers’ demand for electric cars and S.U.V.s.Debt Relief: China, under growing pressure from top international policymakers, appeared to indicate that it was ready to make concessions that would unlock a global effort to restructure hundreds of billions of dollars of debt owed by poor countries.In the order, the president said that China had been using “bulk data collection” to advance its economic and national security agenda, and that the targeted apps put Americans at risk. The executive order, issued late Tuesday, will bar any transactions with “persons that develop or control” the apps of Alipay, CamScanner, QQ Wallet, SHAREit, Tencent QQ, VMate, WeChat Pay, WPS Office and their subsidiaries after a period of 45 days. Trump’s bans, creating uncertainty about the efficacy of the move. But defining the scope of the order and enforcing it would presumably fall to the incoming Biden administration, which has not clarified whether it will try to enact Mr. Trump’s term, could help lock in his administration’s harsher stance toward China and is likely to further rankle Beijing. The move, two weeks before the end of Mr. WASHINGTON - President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order prohibiting transactions with eight Chinese software applications, including Alipay, the payment platform owned by Ant Group, and WeChat Pay, which is owned by Tencent.
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