U.S. President Donald Trump announced Thursday sweeping bans on U.S. transactions with China’s ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok, and Tencent, operator of the WeChat app, in a major escalation of tensions with Beijing. The announcement came days after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said America will purge “untrusted” Chinese apps from U.S. app stores.
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