President Trump signs executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps

President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese-made apps on January 5, 2020. President-elect Joe Biden is scheduled to take office on January 20, 2021, but shortly before that, tensions with China will increase.

Executive Order Addressing the Threat Posed By Applications and Other Software Developed or Controlled By Chinese Companies | The White House

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-addressing-threat-posed-applications-software-developed-controlled-chinese-companies/

Trump signs order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps including Alipay | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-tech-exclusive-idUSKBN29A2PA

Transactions with companies that develop and manage the following eight apps and their subsidiaries are prohibited. The payment app 'Alipay' is developed and distributed by Alibaba, a major Chinese IT company, and the messaging app 'Tencent QQ' is distributed by Tencent, the world's largest game company, as the name implies. ..

・ Alipay
・ CamScanner
・ QQ Wallet
・ SHAREit
・ Tencent QQ
・ VMate
・ WeChat Pay
・ WPS Office

According to the presidential decree, 'Software related to China accesses and obtains a huge amount of user information including identification information and personal information by accessing personal electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers. '. He also pointed out that such data collection allows China to track the whereabouts of US government officials and contractors and create 'records' of personal information.

President Trump signed an executive order banning the trading of 'products at risk in information and communications' in May 2019, and a presidential decree banning Tik Tok in August 2020. 'Additional measures to deal with emergencies.' A senior government official told Reuters that the executive order aims to limit the threat of Chinese software that has a large number of users and accesses personal information.

The executive order also gives the Commerce a 45-day grace period, but the Commerce is planning to put it into action on January 20, when President Trump retires, according to people familiar with the matter.

A spokeswoman for Tencent in the United States and the Chinese embassy in Washington have not responded to Reuters' request for comment.