Trump Issued a decree on Chinese ByteDance

Trump Issued a decree on Chinese ByteDance

US President Donald Trump has issued a decree regarding Chinese ByteDance. This decree covers the company that owns the TikTok application to divest its operations in the USA within 90 days. US President Donald Trump has issued a decree for China-based technology company ByteDance, which owns the TikTok app, to dispose of its operations in the country within 90 days. In the decree issued by the White House, it was stated that there were "reliable evidence" that ByteDance company could threaten the national security of the USA. With this published decree, Chinese ByteDance, the owner of the TikTok application, was asked to dispose of all its assets in the country within 90 days. In addition, in the decree issued by the White House, it was stated that ByteDance is expected to destroy the data obtained from users with its applications within this period and inform the Foreign Investment Committee. President Trump signed two decrees on August 7 to prohibit US individuals or organizations from doing any business with Chinese companies' social media applications TikTok and WeChat. Trump, who stated that they will ban TikTok, the Chinese-based social media platform on September 15, if their operations in the USA are not sold to any American company, said that they do not want TikTok to be under China's control due to security concerns, Microsoft or a large US-based company like TikTok ' He stated that flour should take the US arm.