WASHINGTON – The Trump administration said Friday that it would not withdraw U.S. troops by Sunday. Chinese-owned mobile apps from the App Store will ban WeChat and Ticket OK, cracking down on two popular services used by more than 100 million people in the United States.
The transfer of funds or the process of payment by WeChat will be banned in the United States from Sunday until the sanctions are lifted. In the case of WeChat, restrictions will also prevent any company from using WeChat’s application code in Internet hosting, content delivery networks, Internet transit or peering services, or other software or services in the United States.
The same restrictions on the provision of services have been in effect since November 12 for ticketing.
“Today’s actions demonstrate once again that President Trump will do everything in his power to guarantee our national security and protect Americans from the threats of the Chinese Communist Party,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement.
The action follows a presidential executive order of August 6, in which he argued that Ticket OK and WeChat collect data from American users that could be accessed by the Chinese government. Violations of the order have resulted in fines of up to 1 million and up to 20 years in prison.
Ticket OK is currently under discussion to be acquired by American software maker Oracle, and may announce deals supporting the administration’s national security concerns. In its announcement, the Commerce Department said the president had given the ticket ok until November 12 to address national security concerns, and if they were, the ban on the order could be lifted.
Ticket ok or declined to comment. Transcend and Oracle did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Mr Ross said in an interview with the Fox Business Network on Friday morning that the impact of the ban would be far greater.
“For all practical purposes it will be closed in the US, but only in the US, until midnight on Monday,” Mr Ross said.
Ticket ok will also face some changes, but will be allowed to work until November 12. Mr Ross said he would face sanctions such as WeChat if no deal was reached to address the administration’s concerns.
“Speaking of ticket ok, the only real change until Sunday night is that users won’t have access to updated apps, upgraded apps or maintenance,” he said.
The sanctions raise the question of whether the major operators of the American app stores could sue Google and the Pall administration.
Technology companies have made it clear that they do not like the idea of blocking applications without a more organized policy process, and have suggested that they see this as a first-line issue, said Adam Siegel, a cybersecurity expert at Foreign Relations.
Mr Segal said it was not clear why the administration chose to go after these two Chinese services, not other similar services. “A lot of it seems temporary to me,” he said.
Apple Pal and Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Rose described the threat from the applications in very clear terms and called it a U.S. decision. And compared to the window between China that Beijing could focus on in the daily lives of Americans.
“Data on the location they collect, data on what you’re orienting to, what your preferences are, what you’re referring to, what the American side is doing is available to viewers on every other side.” He said. “That’s what we’re trying to fight.”
In its announcement, the Commerce Department said that both WeChat and Ticket OK collected information from their users, including location data, network activity and browsing history. As Chinese companies, they are also subject to China’s policy of “civilian-military integration” and mandatory cooperation with Chinese intelligence services.
James Lewis, senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said: “It looks like the pressure is on to get a bytendance to make a deal. “Vechett is a form of human sacrifice in this deal. They have become nuclear on them. ”
