Chinese Alipay and CamScanner apps banned in the United States, Trump still on the move
A card displaying QR codes to pay electronically with WeChat Pay and Alipay sits on a vendor's table at a farmer's market in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. China is accusing Washington of misusing national security as an excuse to hurt commercial competitors after President Donald Trump signed an order banning transactions with payment services Alipay and WeChat Pay and six other apps.
AP - Mark Schiefelbein
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Donald Trump continues his crusade against Chinese mobile applications in the name of national security.
The outgoing US president signed a decree on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 to ban any transaction with eight Chinese payment platforms and applications within 45 days.
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According to the decree signed by Trump, anyone under the jurisdiction of the United States should no longer transact with Chinese applications including Alipay, CamScanner or Shareit.
Donald Trump accuses them of harvesting confidential American data on behalf of the Chinese authorities during his transactions.
Through these accusations, the Trump administration is targeting Chinese law, which requires companies in the country to share their data if Beijing asks them to.
But it is not certain that the American president will succeed in banning these applications from the United States.
The ban decision is due to go into effect after his scheduled departure from the White House on January 20.
It is therefore up to Democratic successor Joe Biden to apply this decree or not.
Other uncertainty;
Chinese companies that own these applications can go to American courts, like the Chinese Tik Tok and Wechat applications.
The latter were banned this summer, by decree, from operating in the United States, and legal proceedings have proved them right.
So far the government's appeal procedures have not been successful.
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