Joe Biden revokes TikTok ban in US, signs new executive order to protect US information

Former US President Donald Trump had signed a series of executive orders to block apps that are owned by Chinese companies including TikTok, Alipay, CamScanner.

US President Joe Biden will not ban TikTok in the United States, at least not immediately. Biden has revoked the ban imposed on TikTok and WeChat by the Donald Trump administration. He has now signed a fresh executive order to shield US information and communications technology from threats that also involves the ones from China. “Today, President Biden signed an Executive Order (E.O.) to further address the ongoing national emergency declared in E.O. 13873 of May 15, 2019, with respect to the threat posed to the United States' information and communications technology and services (ICTS) supply chain. President Biden revoked and replaced three E.O.s that aimed to prohibit transactions with TikTok, WeChat, and eight other communications and financial technology software applications; two of these E.O.s are subject to litigation,” the executive order read. Former US President Donald Trump had signed a series of executive orders to block apps that are owned by Chinese companies including TikTok, Alipay, CamScanner, QQ Wallet, SHAREit, Tencent QQ, VMate, WeChat Pay, and WPS Office. He had ordered Bytedance to sell its US arm to an American company.