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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced this Friday night his intention to ban the Chinese social network TikTok in the country, which Washington views with suspicion for reasons of national security.

"As for TikTok, we are going to ban it in the United States," Trump said in remarks to reporters aboard the presidential Air Force One plane bound for Washington from Tampa, Florida. "I have that authority. I can do it with an executive order ," said the president, who said he plans to make the decision this Saturday.

Earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo already hinted that the Trump administration was considering restricting access to TikTok on U.S. soil given the possibility that Beijing is using the social network as a means to monitor and distribute propaganda . In an event organized by The Hill newspaper, Pompeo explained that the Administration was considering imposing sanctions and assured that "shortly" they would communicate to the public "the series of decisions" that have been made.

TikTok is a social network developed by ByteDance, based in Beijing, in which short videos are shared and which has achieved great success among the adolescent public, but which at the same time has raised great doubts about the security of the data of users and their links with the Chinese Communist Party.

Tension between the US and China has increased in recent months fueled by the coronavirus pandemic, for which the two countries blame each other.

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