The hawks in Donald Trump’s administration are on the ascent. Do not expect the US to u-turn on this march towards a harsher stance on China, say ...
One of the most high profile of the new policies is the White House Executive Order against WeChat.
Using authority from the sweeping International Emergency Economic Powers Act , the EO instructs the Secretary of Commerce to review all US interaction with the social media platform to make a detailed determination in 45 days about prohibited transactions. READ: Commentary: The US-China tech rivalry is fracturing the world and affecting trade, firms and jobs
But what counts as a covered"transaction"? Exchanging messages with another WeChat user? Reading an article from a Chinese entity posted on its official WeChat account? Paying for a product or service using WeChat Pay? While the courts have generally deferred to the US executive branch on issues of national security, the claim there is an “economic emergency” is expansive and may go beyond the 1977 IEEPA statute, originally enacted in post-Watergate reforms to limit presidential power.Nothing this major happens at this time of a presidential campaign without politics being a major factor.
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