Burst! Trump signs executive order: 45 days later, all US transactions with ByteDance and Tencent ar
- Author:Kyrie
- Source:Sunny
- Release Date:2020-08-07
The new crown pneumonia epidemic has severely hit the global economy, but the United States is brewing a "trade storm".
Only one month after the implementation of the New US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Trump announced the restart of tariffs on Canadian aluminum. On August 6, local time, US President Trump signed an announcement announcing that the United States would resume imposing an additional 10% tariff on some aluminum products imported from Canada. The time for the increase will begin on August 16.
On the same day, U.S. President Trump also signed two executive orders to block all transactions between companies belonging to the video sharing app TikTok and the communication app WeChat with the United States.
The executive order will take effect in 45 days (September 20), which means that the United States will prohibit any US company or individual from trading with TikTok's Chinese parent company Bytedance or WeChat-owned company Tencent.
This also means that these two companies will not be able to appear on American app stores such as Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store.
Trump administration officials said this week that they are stepping up efforts to remove "untrusted" Chinese apps from the U.S. digital network, and called China's short video app TikTok and messaging app WeChat "major threats."
In the executive order, Trump accused the TikTok app of “may be used for disinformation activities” in favor of the Chinese Communist Party, and the United States must “take tough action” against TikTok owners to protect the “national security” of the United States. .
CNN pointed out that the signing of this administrative order has increased the pressure on Bytedance on the sale of TikTok in the future, and Microsoft is currently negotiating the acquisition of TikTok.
In this administrative order, TikTok’s usual excuses such as “obtaining and leaking user information and data”, “threatening national security”, and “using data for espionage” still appeared repeatedly, but did not specify part of the funds in the TikTok acquisition. Whether to submit it to the US Treasury Department.
On August 3, Trump issued a blatant threat at the White House press conference, proposing that TikTok’s future acquisition transactions should be handed over a considerable amount of "commission" to the U.S. Treasury, "because we made this transaction become may".
In another order, Trump accused WeChat of “automatically obtaining large amounts of information from users” and accused the collection of data “may expose the Chinese Communist Party to personal and proprietary information of Americans.”
According to the report, the executive order will effectively disable WeChat in the United States within 45 days. "To the extent permitted by applicable laws, it is forbidden for anyone to conduct any transaction related to WeChat, or any property subject to U.S. jurisdiction and Tencent Holdings Limited’s transaction."
The effective date of the new order is set after the deadline (September 15) set by Trump for Microsoft to acquire TikTok's business in the United States and other places. Trump said this week that the U.S. government will "draw a rake" from this transaction. If the U.S. government can get "a majority" of the sales price, he will support the sale of TikTok's U.S. business to Microsoft. He threatened otherwise. TikTok was banned in the United States on September 15.
Whether it is banning TikTok or launching WeChat, the US actions against Chinese companies are related to its "net-net operation."
According to the Observation Network, on August 5 local time, US Secretary of State Pompeo held a press conference and stated that the US government will expand the scope of "clean 5G" and is stepping up efforts to remove the "untrusted" China from the US digital network. application. He also listed TikTok and WeChat as a "major threat" to the United States.
It is reported that Pompeo announced that the US government plans to expand the scope of "clean 5G" and expand this plan to 5 areas, including operators, application stores, applications, network clouds and network cables. Among them, in the field of clean network clouds, Ali Baba, Baidu, China Mobile, China Telecom and Tencent have been "shot".
Reuters commentators believe that if the United States imposes a ban on Chinese social communication applications, it will exacerbate the so-called "ideological division" on the Internet.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference on August 6 that US politicians such as Pompeo have repeatedly used national security as an excuse to abuse national power to suppress and contain Chinese high-tech enterprises. China firmly opposes this.
The relevant actions of the United States have no factual basis at all. They are completely malicious smear and political manipulation. The essence is to maintain its own high-tech monopoly. This completely violates market principles and international economic and trade rules, and seriously threatens the security of the global industrial chain supply chain. Typical bullying behavior.
I want to emphasize that many Chinese companies currently unilaterally sanctioned by the United States are innocent, and their technologies and products are also safe. There has never been a cybersecurity similar to the "Snowden Incident" and "WikiLeaks". In the incident, there has not been a network monitoring behavior similar to "Prism Gate", "Formula Organization", and "Echelon System". The United States itself is smeared and is still talking about "cleaning the Internet". This is ridiculous.
We urge the US to correct its wrong practices, create conditions for companies from all countries to carry out normal economic and trade cooperation, and restore a free, open and secure cyberspace in the world. China will continue to work with other countries in the world to jointly maintain a fair, just, open, and non-discriminatory business environment, and promote international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, so that safe, reliable, and high-quality information technology can provide for the recovery of the global economy and a better life for people in all countries. New motivation.
Only one month after the implementation of the New US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Trump announced the restart of tariffs on Canadian aluminum. On August 6, local time, US President Trump signed an announcement announcing that the United States would resume imposing an additional 10% tariff on some aluminum products imported from Canada. The time for the increase will begin on August 16.
On the same day, U.S. President Trump also signed two executive orders to block all transactions between companies belonging to the video sharing app TikTok and the communication app WeChat with the United States.
The executive order will take effect in 45 days (September 20), which means that the United States will prohibit any US company or individual from trading with TikTok's Chinese parent company Bytedance or WeChat-owned company Tencent.
This also means that these two companies will not be able to appear on American app stores such as Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store.
Trump administration officials said this week that they are stepping up efforts to remove "untrusted" Chinese apps from the U.S. digital network, and called China's short video app TikTok and messaging app WeChat "major threats."
In the executive order, Trump accused the TikTok app of “may be used for disinformation activities” in favor of the Chinese Communist Party, and the United States must “take tough action” against TikTok owners to protect the “national security” of the United States. .
CNN pointed out that the signing of this administrative order has increased the pressure on Bytedance on the sale of TikTok in the future, and Microsoft is currently negotiating the acquisition of TikTok.
In this administrative order, TikTok’s usual excuses such as “obtaining and leaking user information and data”, “threatening national security”, and “using data for espionage” still appeared repeatedly, but did not specify part of the funds in the TikTok acquisition. Whether to submit it to the US Treasury Department.
On August 3, Trump issued a blatant threat at the White House press conference, proposing that TikTok’s future acquisition transactions should be handed over a considerable amount of "commission" to the U.S. Treasury, "because we made this transaction become may".
In another order, Trump accused WeChat of “automatically obtaining large amounts of information from users” and accused the collection of data “may expose the Chinese Communist Party to personal and proprietary information of Americans.”
According to the report, the executive order will effectively disable WeChat in the United States within 45 days. "To the extent permitted by applicable laws, it is forbidden for anyone to conduct any transaction related to WeChat, or any property subject to U.S. jurisdiction and Tencent Holdings Limited’s transaction."
The effective date of the new order is set after the deadline (September 15) set by Trump for Microsoft to acquire TikTok's business in the United States and other places. Trump said this week that the U.S. government will "draw a rake" from this transaction. If the U.S. government can get "a majority" of the sales price, he will support the sale of TikTok's U.S. business to Microsoft. He threatened otherwise. TikTok was banned in the United States on September 15.
Whether it is banning TikTok or launching WeChat, the US actions against Chinese companies are related to its "net-net operation."
According to the Observation Network, on August 5 local time, US Secretary of State Pompeo held a press conference and stated that the US government will expand the scope of "clean 5G" and is stepping up efforts to remove the "untrusted" China from the US digital network. application. He also listed TikTok and WeChat as a "major threat" to the United States.
It is reported that Pompeo announced that the US government plans to expand the scope of "clean 5G" and expand this plan to 5 areas, including operators, application stores, applications, network clouds and network cables. Among them, in the field of clean network clouds, Ali Baba, Baidu, China Mobile, China Telecom and Tencent have been "shot".
Reuters commentators believe that if the United States imposes a ban on Chinese social communication applications, it will exacerbate the so-called "ideological division" on the Internet.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference on August 6 that US politicians such as Pompeo have repeatedly used national security as an excuse to abuse national power to suppress and contain Chinese high-tech enterprises. China firmly opposes this.
The relevant actions of the United States have no factual basis at all. They are completely malicious smear and political manipulation. The essence is to maintain its own high-tech monopoly. This completely violates market principles and international economic and trade rules, and seriously threatens the security of the global industrial chain supply chain. Typical bullying behavior.
I want to emphasize that many Chinese companies currently unilaterally sanctioned by the United States are innocent, and their technologies and products are also safe. There has never been a cybersecurity similar to the "Snowden Incident" and "WikiLeaks". In the incident, there has not been a network monitoring behavior similar to "Prism Gate", "Formula Organization", and "Echelon System". The United States itself is smeared and is still talking about "cleaning the Internet". This is ridiculous.
We urge the US to correct its wrong practices, create conditions for companies from all countries to carry out normal economic and trade cooperation, and restore a free, open and secure cyberspace in the world. China will continue to work with other countries in the world to jointly maintain a fair, just, open, and non-discriminatory business environment, and promote international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, so that safe, reliable, and high-quality information technology can provide for the recovery of the global economy and a better life for people in all countries. New motivation.
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