Trump's WeChat ban has potential to take a cleaver to US-China links - at a corporate and personal level. Here's why:
- #US companies in China – think Starbucks, McDonalds, Disney, Apple - rely on #WeChat for payments, promotions and sales #Thread
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- #US companies in China – think Starbucks, McDonalds, Disney, Apple - rely on #WeChat for payments, promotions and sales #Thread
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2. #WeChat – combining functions of Facebook, Twitter, Apple Pay etc into a single app - is a *utility* for the millions of Chinese diaspora globally.
Not just for making calls to family/friends back in China (who all use it), but for payments & other services
Not just for making calls to family/friends back in China (who all use it), but for payments & other services
3. If @Apple is banned from hosting #Wechat on its China app store, sales here would plummet. Same applies to @Starbucks et al
@Apple @Starbucks 4. #Data & censorship concerns are real.
#WeChat censors content, platform allows govt monitoring of dissident groups, data goes via China servers
To conclude: This is bigger than TikTok viral vids
#WeChat censors content, platform allows govt monitoring of dissident groups, data goes via China servers
To conclude: This is bigger than TikTok viral vids
