A US Department of Commerce ordinance was issued on Friday that made it impossible to download the WeChat messaging service in the US as of Sunday. The TikTok video sharing was postponed until November.

US President Donald Trump invented a ban on two apps developed by China in the US, citing security risks. According to a statement from the Ministry of Commerce issued on Friday, WeChat will be banned from September 20 and will apply to TikTok from November 12.

Before the entry into force, the president can revoke the TikTok part of the order if his Chinese company, Bytedance, reaches an agreement with Oracle in the US to establish a company to manage TikTok operations in the US. To address Washington’s concerns.

The situation is complicated. The US government has initially tried to transfer (sell) the rights to operate TikTok to a US company to Bytedance. Microsoft, Twitter, the Walmart chain, and a relatively unknown competitor, Triller, have also signed on to the US interest in the global video service, but in the end, Bytedance turned down Oracle’s offers to offer only some kind of unspecified public association. When about this The Wall Street Journal wrote, it was already conceivable at the time that this might not be enough for the US government.

A South China morning post Citing well-informed sources, he wrote a few days ago that Bytedance would in no way be willing to pass on an algorithm designed to recommend videos to Americans, that is, it would retain a critical part of the service.

A Reuters according to the competent authorities just mentioned, some of which will enter into force on Sunday

The regulation does not prohibit Apple and Google, as US companies, from continuing to make TikTok and WeChat available to users outside of the United States. The shows just need to disappear from the US department stores.

The ban also doesn’t prevent US companies from transacting abroad via WeChat, which is the most important payment method in China other than messaging.

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China would be talking cunningly by selling the US branch of TikTok


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Economy

The sale of China’s TikTok video-sharing business to China would be linked to a technology export license by the Beijing government, which could cause further complications.

The owner would take the most valuable part of TikTok so that it does not fall into American hands.


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Race

Chinese ByteDance, owner of TikTok, seems willing to hand over the app to Americans only if the algorithm for showing and recommending videos is removed beforehand.