Trump rightly targets Chinese surveillance apps TikTok and WeChat
by Washington Examiner, | | August 08, 2020 12:00 AM
Trump rightly targets Chinese surveillance apps TikTok and WeChat by Washington Examiner, | | August 08, 2020 12:00 AM After years of tough talk about China, President Trump finally moved to shore up the free world’s soft underbelly in the new Cold War: data.
With two executive orders announced near midnight on Thursday, Trump gave Chinese firms ByteDance and Tencent just 45 days to sell off their respective social media subsidiaries, TikTok and WeChat, respectively, to owners not answerable to the regime in Beijing.
In contrast to his crowd-pleasing tariffs against China, Trump is knowingly taking an electoral gamble with these executive orders. According to the New York Times, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Sen. Lindsey Graham were trying to convince Trump to soften his TikTok opposition out of political expedience. But Trump is right to treat WeChat and TikTok the same way the United States treated Soviet espionage during the Cold War.
Although WeChat openly censors and collects the data of users registered in mainland China in cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party, the company has maintained that it does not spy on non-mainland Chinese users. This is a lie. The University of Toronto’s Citizens Lab found that users with no connection to mainland China “undergo content surveillance wherein ... files are analyzed for content that is politically sensitive in China.”
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Trump’s orders will result in lawsuits and a debate over whether to expand the Emergency Powers Act further. Whatever the outcome, the public must be prepared for a paradigm shift in how we view tech gadgets in the context of Chinese espionage. Trump has done the right thing here, even if it is not necessarily the popular thing.
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