Citing India, Trump blocks 8 Chinese apps over national security

Taking Indias example of banning more than 200 Chinese apps US President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order that blocks transactions with Chinese companies running eight apps including Jack Maowned Ant Groups Alipay Tencents QQ and WeChat Pay applicationsTransactions will be prohibited in 45 days said the order Other apps include CamScanner QQ Wallet SHAREit Tencent QQ VMate WeChat Pay and WPS Office which are already banned in IndiaThe Government of India has banned the use of more than 200 Chinese connected software applications throughout the country in a statement Indias Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology asserted that the applications were stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users data in an unauthorised manner to servers which have locations outside India Trump wrote in his new executive orderThe new executive order follows two earlier ones from Trump in August last year where he tried to ban transactions with ByteDance TikToks parent company and WeChatHowever a judge blocked the WeChat ban in September and in October a judge granted a preliminary injunction stopping the TikTok ban in DecemberThe pace and pervasiveness of the spread in the United States of certain connected mobile and desktop applications and other software developed or controlled by persons in the Peoples Republic of China to include Hong Kong and Macau China continue to threaten the national security foreign policy and economy of the United States the executive order further readThe US must take aggressive action against those who develop or control Chinese connected software applications to protect our national securityThe Trump order said that the continuing activity of the PRC and the CCP to steal or otherwise obtain United States persons data makes clear that there is an intent to use bulk data collection to advance Chinas economic and national security agendaOn June 29 last year the government banned 59 Chinese apps in the first lot including TikTok WeChat UC Browser and Xiaomis Mi Community over national security concerns amid the border tussle in Eastern Ladakh which led to the death of 20 Indian soldiers in a bloody clash with Chinese PLA troops in the Galwan Valley in June 2020Other Chinese apps in the banned list were Club Factory SHAREit Likee Mi Video Call Xiaomi Weibo Baidu BIGO LIVE and moreIn July the government barred 47 Chinese apps from operating in the country which were largely clones of the 59 apps that were banned in JuneThe Indian government on September 2 banned 118 apps on national security concerns including the immensely popular PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds PUBG Mobile Baidu and couple of virtual private networks that allowed access to TikTok that was banned earlierContinuing with its ban orders on Chinese apps the Indian government in November blocked 43 new mobile apps including shopping website AliExpress owned by ecommerce behemoth AlibabaThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever