President Donald Trump has signed an executive order barring transaction with eight Chinese apps which includes Alipay and WeChat Pay to defend America’s national safety, citing the actions taken by India to ban more than 200 Chinese connected application applications.
Trump’s order mentioned action is required to “deal with the national emergency” triggered by the “pervasiveness of the spread” of apps designed and controlled in China.
The ban against the eight Chinese apps — Alipay, CamScanner, QQ Wallet, SHAREit, Tencent QQ, VMate, WeChat Pay, and WPS Office — will come into impact in 45 days from Tuesday.
“The 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 China, to include Hong Kong and Macau (China), continue to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States,” Trump mentioned on Tuesday.
“At this time, action must be taken to address the threat posed by these Chinese connected software applications,” Trump mentioned in his executive order.
The orders stick to two other folks Trump signed in August banning dealings with the well known video app TikTok as effectively as the primary WeChat app.
Trump mentioned that India has banned the use of more than 200 Chinese connected application applications all through the nation.
In a statement, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology asserted that the applications had been “stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorised manner to servers which have locations outside India,” according to the executive order.