Donald Trump is erecting a new wall. Not along the Rio Grande but on the internet, in order to exclude Chinese groups from the large American market. In two presidential decrees published on August 6, the master of the White House threatens to divide the global internet by banning two Chinese applications, TikTok and WeChat. Reason given: national security.
The first text plans to ban an entertainment application of Chinese origin, TikTok. This mini-video editing and exchange platform has been a resounding success with young people over the past two years. With 100 million users in the United States, the app is owned by the Beijing unicorn ByteDance. If its American activity is not bought by a local company by November, it will be banned. The giants Microsoft and Oracle are in the running. The same argument is made against the social network WeChat. Unmissable in China but little used in the United States, it belongs to the giant of
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