Trump Bans WeChat From US, Freezes TikTok Updates In App Stores Starting Monday

Wilbur Ross's Commerce department on Friday imposed sweeping new rules on TikTok and WeChat in a bid to bolster Donald Trump's executive orders issued last month. "The Chinese Communist Party has demonstrated the means and motives to use these apps to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and the economy of the US", Ross declared, in a statement. The administration says that although the "threats" from WeChat and TikTok are "not identical", they are "similar" in that both apps are "a

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