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Q: Is it true Apple will only remove Wechat from the App Store in the US?

Is it true Apple will only remove Wechat from the App Store in the US?

 

How about worldwide including China as well?

 

I heard they will consider to ban it by September or negotiations.

 

Have you guys backup via Wechat desktop yet? I have an iPhone now and needs to get back up before it is too late.

 

 

3 years 32 weeks ago in  Web & Technology - China

 
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https://www.mymobileindia.com/news/apple-remove-wechat-global-app-store-...

 

Apple is reportedly being forced to remove the popular messaging app, WeChat, from its global App Store, could have its iPhone shipments drop by up to 30 percent in the Chinese market.

 

.. more ...

 

.. de - cou - pling ..

 

 

Beijing Pushes To Discuss Trump's Ban On TikTok, WeChat During Next Round Of Trade Talk

 ... they are supposed to meet on Aug. 15th ...

 

... they've never met ... i.e. postponed indefinitely ... Aug. 19th ...

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I'm still trying to decide if I don't give a sh1t or if I don't give a f@ck about this change in the universe.

As to douyin/tiktok, I don't give a flying f@ck.

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It is a wait and see game now. Until the powers to be act, one does not know the scope of the decisions. 

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Trump get voted out

icnif77:

.. just to keep We-Cvat ...? 

 

Pronounce slowly: 'de-cou-pling ...' ... exale .. surprise

 

Doesn't matter what, Trump-a is the winner in Nov.

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No way!!!

icnif77:

My point was: "... doesn't matter who's going to be POTUS .."

 

Game against China is on ... by Western world.

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Hi 

 

Is WeChat will still be operable in Asia?

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In China, most certainly. Other Asian countries... who knows, but my guess would be probably.

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I don't care since I have already installed wechat on my iphone

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Commerce Department Plans To Block Downloads Of TikTok, WeChat In US

The Commerce Department just gave some teeth to Trump's executive orders targeting TikTok and WeChat, and if a deal isn't reached, a timeline for shutting down the apps' US business is being unfurled.

 

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... am gonna git me some more pints ...

 

Trump Has "Given His Blessing" To TikTok-Oracle Deal As ByteDance Begs US Court To Intervene

"I have given the deal my blessing, if they get it done that’s great, if they don’t that’s fine too..."

 

 

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Beijing Reportedly Plans To Kill Oracle-TikTok Deal

 

Did the Trump Administration expect this all along? And will they now move to 'shut it down'?

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When I happens, if you have ios change your location to Canada or something like that, Android, download an apk. It's a storm in a teacup.

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Do you know Kyle Bass? Good ...

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/kyle-bass-warns-beijing-could-manipula...

 

Kyle Bass Warns Beijing Could Manipulate TikTok To 'Brainwash' Millennials If Trump Doesn't Shut It Down

 

Kyle Bass prefers the term "China realist" to "China hawk", but the inveterate China critic, who last year bet against the Hong Kong dollar's peg to the greenback, appeared on CNBC Tuesday morning to share his thoughts on TikTok, HSBC and the prospect of 'decoupling' between the US and China.

As Bass has explained on several occasions, the US is maneuvering against China on four fronts: there's what Bass calls "kinetic war" - a clash between the world's two largest militaries - in addition to a cyber war, a narrative war, an economic war.

Pushing back against critics like Barry Diller, who slammed the Trump Administration's approach to the TikTok deal, Bass blamed "China's own policies that have put them in this situation in overplaying their hand."

.@Jkylebass on his issues with a TikTok deal: "Number 1: The Chinese government has the aggressive data collection policies through TIkTok. Number 2: TikTok's algorithm can influence the thinking and the minds of US youth over time."

TikTok is "very close" to the Chinese government, Bass argued. Its data collection policies are "aggressive", and most importantly "China controls the narrative - that's what they do best."

For example, Bass explained, if Goldman Sachs wants to open up a new business line in China, China will demand that all of the data collected on Chinese citizens be stored on a server inside China. It's an approach that the EU is trying to copy - and President Trump now, too, apparently.

Trump is just trying to enforce the same standard in the US, any way he can, Bass argued.

But it's not just Beijing collecting the user data that worries Bass - it's the CCP's ability to manipulate the minds of young Americans via its content-recommendation algorithm. It's an issue that WSJ touched upon in a story filed a few months ago that, strangely, didn't make much of a splash in the US.

While some have argued that it would be impossible for ByteDance to withhold the algorithm, as it claims it would do, Bass argued that Beijing is trying to keep it secret fora reason.

"They control that algorithm and that's of course the algorithm they don't want to give up," Bass said.

Later in the interview, Bass turned his attention to bashing HSBC, which saw its shares hit a 25-year-low following a massive leak of FinCEN SARs that exposed more of the bank's work with terrorists and drug cartels, allegations that contributed to a $2 billion settlement back in 2012.

To be sure, it looks like the deal is headed for the dustbin, as the Global Times publishes another editorial bashing the Trump Administration's attempt to "steal" an iconic Chinese company, amid reports that regulators are preparing to strike it down.

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