The company said it … And who’s going to get the name?” Trump said.TikTok has been the subject of escalating scrutiny from US public officials over concerns the Chinese government could force ByteDance to give up valuable user information.Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have suggested the app pipes data to the Chinese Communist Party. Immediately after President Trump's executive order was announced, I received a flood of messages on my WeChat.


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While tit-for-tat has become the new normal in US-China relations, this move will cut off virtually all people-to-people communication between the world's two most influential countries.Mr Trump has been waging a trade war against China since taking office.The US government took action last year against two Chinese communications companies, Huawei and ZTE, including locking them out of government contracts.Most recently, he has blamed the country for the global coronavirus pandemic, which has crippled the US economy.Meanwhile, many of the biggest US platforms - Google, Twitter and Facebook - are banned inside China.TikTok - which has up to 80 million active monthly users in the US - has exploded in popularity in recent years, mostly with people under 20.The app is reported to have around 800 million active monthly users, with its biggest markets having grown in the US and India.India has, however, already blocked TikTok, as well as other Chinese apps.

It'll enhance the popular view in China that Washington is unreasonably suppressing its biggest competitor in technology. Some advertisers told Reuters they were drafting contingency plans and considering other apps for their marketing.Trump has said he would prefer that Microsoft or another suitor buy the full company rather than just TikTok’s US business.“It’s probably easier to buy the whole thing than to buy 30 percent of it. Discover new videos from top creators, explore popular hashtags and find music to fit your mood. "We will pursue all remedies available to us in order to ensure that the rule of law is not discarded and that our company and our users are treated fairly - if not by the administration, then by the US courts," it said.The TikTok ban is hardly a surprise, as the app has faced scrutiny in the US for months. The orders have been issued under legal authority from the National Emergencies Act and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.In its most robust response so far to the US government, TikTok says the executive order that has been issued is based on "unnamed reports with no citations". These are external links and will open in a new windowTikTok is threatening legal action against the US after Donald Trump ordered firms to stop doing business with the Chinese app within 45 days. Because they say how do you do 30 percent, who’s going to get the name? I hope you enjoyed this video! "The executive orders against the short-video sharing platform and the messaging service WeChat are the latest measure in an increasingly broad Trump administration campaign against China.On Thursday, Washington announced recommendations that Chinese firms listed on US stock markets should be delisted unless they provided regulators with access to their audited accounts.China's Foreign Ministry on Friday accused the US of using national security as a cover to exert hegemony.In both executive orders, Mr Trump says that the spread in the US of mobile apps developed and owned by Chinese firms "threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States".The US government says TikTok and WeChat "capture vast swaths of information from its users". Login. Many creators are already turning to a new app. TikTok is the destination for short-form mobile videos.