The United States on Wednesday announced it wants to remove more Chinese smartphone applications from U.S. app stores and stop Chinese cloud providers from serving U.S. companies.
"We want to see untrusted Chinese apps removed from U.S. app stores," Pompeo told reporters, adding "apps like TikTok, WeChat and others are significant threats to the personal data of American citizens, not to mention tools for [the Chinese Communist Party] content censorship."Further, the U.S. government wants to stop U.S.
But the plans show a clear rupture with long-standing policies that the internet should be global, open and interoperable, experts pointed out.
Pretending to be 'tough on China' even though we're business partners on a million different levels.
Spying is bad, and a very reasonable suspicion to have. Furthermore, it’s only fair economically - they don’t let western apps into their economic ecosystem, so why allow theirs into ours?