{"id":13914,"date":"2020-09-20T00:45:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T19:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=13914"},"modified":"2020-09-20T00:47:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T19:47:55","slug":"us-wechat-and-tiktok-block-to-affect-millions-of-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2020\/09\/20\/us-wechat-and-tiktok-block-to-affect-millions-of-users\/","title":{"rendered":"US WeChat and TikTok block to affect millions of users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: (News Pulse\/Monitoring desk) Cold War between the US and China is escalating US President Trump has made a final decision to shut down Chinese social media, which will take effect today, Sunday. The United States administration&#8217;s crackdown on \u201cWeChat\u201d is expected to disrupt communications between millions of people in Washington and their friends, families, and business partners in China.<\/p>\n<p>But the app had not managed to reproduce in the US its success in China as the dominant smartphone-based payments platform. The US Commerce Department announced partial bans on Friday on WeChat as well as video app TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>The order will slow down WeChat to make it unusable in the United States for video chats with family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>WeChat in the United States has around 19 million active daily users and<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s mostly used by Chinese visiting or working here or by Chinese-Americans staying in touch with their relatives. Now, under the Commerce Department order, WeChat cannot be used for transferring money inside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok will be removed from the US app stores from Sunday as Washington moves to implement executive orders from Donald Trump that will also target WeChat, a Chinese Social Media app.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: (News Pulse\/Monitoring desk) Cold War between the US and China is escalating US President Trump has made a final decision to shut down Chinese social media, which will take effect today, Sunday. The United States administration&#8217;s crackdown on \u201cWeChat\u201d is expected to disrupt communications between millions of people in Washington and their friends, families, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2309,2299],"tags":[2463,2553,2632,2354,2633],"class_list":["post-13914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-china","tag-tiktok","tag-us","tag-washington","tag-wechat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13916,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13914\/revisions\/13916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}