Biden Rescinds Trump’s Executive Orders Targeting TikTok, Other Tech Firms With China Ties

The administration ordered the Department of Commerce to closely monitor them

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President Joe Biden overturned executive orders from former President Donald Trump that aimed to prevent TikTok, WeChat and other communications and financial technology companies that are controlled by companies based in China from operating in the U.S., but those companies are not out of the woods yet.

A new executive order signed by Biden this week directs the Department of Commerce to evaluate software applications that are connected to countries that the U.S. considers to be foreign adversaries, which includes China.

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