China is currently the target of the
US due to trade war and coronavirus infection. US President Donald Trump is
preparing to clamp down on Chinese companies. Trump has now hinted at a ban on
China's tech giant Alibaba. In a press conference on Saturday, Trump said he
was considering banning Alibaba in the US.
US President Donald Trump has signed
a proposal to ban Chinese company Bydance's short video app TikTok. Now Trump
has issued an executive order directing Bydance to sell its TikTok business in
the US within 90 days. Trump wrote in an order issued on Friday that there is
credible evidence that convinced me that Bydance could take action that could
be a threat to America's national security. Trump had earlier said in executive
orders that the Chinese company would be banned from doing business with
American companies after 45 days. TikTok has also threatened legal action
against this order.
Several US companies such as Apple,
Ford, Walmart and Disney have asked the Trump administration to withdraw the
order to ban WeChat and TikTok. He said that this would harm American companies
doing business in China. Trump has also ordered the ban on the social media
messaging app WeChat of Chinese company Tencent Holdings, in addition to TikTok.
Tencent has said that she is fully understanding Trump's executive order right
now. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, if the WeChat is removed from the Apple
App Store, iPhone sales in China market may fall by 25-30%. 1.2 million Apple
users in China said that without WeChat, they would leave Apple and use Android
phones.
India has taken a tough stand against
China after 20 soldiers died in a border dispute in the Galvan Valley of
Ladakh. Following this incident, in June, the Indian government banned 59 apps
related to China. This included popular apps such as BidTance's TikTok,
Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba Group's UC Browser and UC News. After this, in July,
the government banned 47 more apps from China. The government said that it was
a clone of the previously banned app. Thus far, the government has banned 106
apps related to China.
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