U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said President Donald Trump’s executive orders against TikTok and Tencent's WeChat could be “broader” than just those two apps,CNBC reports. Pompeo did not elaborate, but his comments could be hinting at action against other Chinese apps or even TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, or WeChat owner Tencent. The orders name both Tencent and ByteDance. “WeChat and Weixin are two separate products, with WeChat serving our International users,” John Lo, chief financial officer of Tencent, said on the company’s earnings call on Wednesday. “Based on our initial reading and subsequent press reports the executive order is focused on WeChat in the United States and not our other businesses in the U.S,” he said.

Source: The Standard August 13, 2020 14:03 UTC