8-7-20 In China western media is not allowed, hence users cannot access the world's most popular free chat application, Facebook-owned WhatsApp, to make free calls and texts….
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order banning the use of WeChat in the United States Trump says any app based in China is an issue.
The app captures "personal and proprietary information of Chinese nationals visiting the United States, thereby allowing the Chinese Communist Party a mechanism for keeping tabs on Chinese citizens who may be enjoying the benefits of a free society for the first time in their lives," Trump's order said. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/08/07/what-is-wechat-why-trump-wants-ban-tencent/3319217001/
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8-28-20 Trump's ban claims that Chinese-owned apps, such as TikTok and WeChat, threaten national security. He has stated that these apps must sell to the United States if they wish to continue their use in the U.S. The Chinese government has taken a firm no-sale stance. https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/28/china-sees-no-reason-to-keep-iphones-if-wechat-is-banned?ocid=uxbndlbing
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4-14-19
Some are in denial about the fundamental change China’s rise may bring to the global order of institutions and principles established by the United States and its allies after World War II. Others concede that the structural stress between a rising China and an incumbent United States is the defining danger of our times, yet they offer neither an engagement or containment strategy worthy of this epochal challenge.
Graham Allison, one of America’s most astute China watchers, quotes Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, who shortly before his death in 2015 said this: “The size of China’s displacement of the world balance is such that the world must find a new balance. It is not possible to pretend that this is just another big player. This is the biggest player in the history of the world.”
In that context what China wants is a play in three acts. First, China wants ideally to push the US out of its Asian region, or at the very least reduce its influence, to achieve a regional hegemony that makes all actors ultimately dependent on it. Second, it is acting globally to displace, if not yet replace, the United States wherever it can--including in major parts of Europe--most importantly through its Belt and Road Initiative.
Finally, it’s clearer than ever that Beijing by the time of the 100th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China in 2049 aspires to be the dominant economic, political and perhaps military power for an era where democracies remain but authoritarian systems are ascendant….
Yet it is beyond Asia where China’s reach has expanded fastest.It’s hard to overstate the importance of the Belt and Road Initiative, whose impact on its times may outstrip that of America’s Marshall Plan, which at $13 billion of funding had neither the BRI’s global aspiration or resources. Launched only in 2013, conservative estimates have China already spending $400 billion on the BRI with hundreds of millions more in the pipeline for projects with some 86 countries and international organizations, most recently including the first G-7 member, Italy.
Though the BRI is a development scheme, its political and security benefits for China grow increasingly clear, whether through EU members who oppose human rights statements against Beijing or African or Middle Eastern countries who will be less likely over time to provide US forces military access.
Finally, a growing number of experts believe China on current trajectories wants to fill America’s shoes as the dominant global agenda-setter and rule-maker. Chinese https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/inflection-points/the-world-china-wants/
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