The president of the United States,
Joe Biden
, withdrew on Wednesday the executive orders that sought to ban the popular social networks
TikTok
and
in the country presented by his predecessor,
Donald Trump
(2017-2021), and instead urged to open an investigation to identify security risks related to China.
The new decree indicates that the
Department of Commerce
begins a "rigorous and evidence-based" analysis of the applications that collect personal information from users and whose technology has ties with the Asian giant.
"Certain countries, including China, seek to use digital technologies and American data that pose unacceptable national security risks, while assisting authoritarian interests and controls," the
White House
noted
.
Specifically, the US government targets those applications that "are owned, controlled or managed by individuals who support a foreign military adversary or intelligence activities, are involved in malicious cyber activities, or store sensitive personal data."
Trump's orders, from August 2020, remain blocked for the moment by court decision.
The former president even demanded that the firm that owns TikTok, the Chinese
ByteDance
, sell its business in the country to US companies.
Biden's decision comes on the same day that he begins his first international trip since arriving at the White House, which will take him to the
UK
G7
summit
, meetings with his European partners in Brussels and his first meeting with his Russian counterpart,
Vladimir Putin.
Shortly before getting on the plane, the president assured that the objective of his trip to Europe is to "strengthen the alliance" and "make it clear to Russia and China that" the US
and Europe are together.
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