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Trump Issues Executive Orders Banning TikTok and WeChat

| China Tech

President Trump issues executive orders requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok's US operations within 90 days and banning WeChat transactions in the US, citing national security concerns over Chinese access to American user data. ByteDance scrambles to negotiate a deal with Oracle and Walmart to host TikTok's US data. Courts temporarily block both orders before the Biden administration later withdraws them.

  • T1 White House Official
  • T2 Reuters Major