CHINA/SOCIAL MEDIA: “President Donald Trump said he would ban Chinese-owned TikTok from the U.S. following concerns about data collection by the popular music-video app, escalating the administration’s clash with China.
‘As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the United States,’ the president told reporters Friday night. Asked when it would happen, he said: ‘Soon, immediately. I mean essentially immediately.’
Trump said he had the authority to ban the app, owned by ByteDance Ltd., one of China’s biggest tech companies, a move he could make by executive order or under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
‘I will sign the document tomorrow,’ he said just before Air Force One landed in Washington from a visit to Florida.”
-Mario Parker and David McLaughlin, “Trump to Ban Chinese-Owned TikTok From Operating in U.S.,” bloomberg.com, July 31, 2020