If the United States bans WeChat, many Chinese people say they can use Apple phones

Recently, the United States has continued to suppress Chinese technology companies on the grounds of national security. China's Tencent (Tencent) company's social software WeChat (WeChat) has also been threatened by the Donald Trump administration.

At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China held on August 27, Beijing time, a reporter asked: According to reports, a survey of American companies in China published by the American Chamber of Commerce on the 26th showed that nearly 90% of the interviewed companies believed The US government's ban on WeChat will have a negative impact on its business. More than one-third of the interviewed companies believe that the ban may cause losses to their global revenue. what opinions do the Chinese have on this issue?

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao Lijian said, “ I noticed the findings of this survey, and I also noticed that many Chinese said that if the United States really banned WeChat, then we can use Apple phones.”

Zhao Li insisted that under the guise of national security, some U.S. politicians abused national power and unreasonably suppressed the piracy of non-U.S. companies. This has caused damage to the rights and interests of consumers and companies in all countries, including the U.S., and will surely suffer from the international community. Opposition and resistance.

Zhao Lijian emphasized that some US politicians’ hunting of non-US companies, including WeChat, is essentially imposing labels of ideological bias on non-US companies. It is an organized and systematic approach to non-US companies that have achieved leading advantages in a certain field. Economic bullying. This approach denies the market economy and fair competition principles that the United States has always advertised, tramples on international rules, and undermines the exchanges and cooperation of scientific and technological innovation among countries under the wave of globalization. In the eyes of these people, the so-called liberalization of the Internet is nothing more than the Americanization of the Internet, and the so-called national security is only synonymous with American double standards.

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At the same time, Bloomberg’s latest market survey report shows that 95% of the 1.2 million Chinese users surveyed said that if WeChat is banned on the iPhone, they will switch to Android phones instead of Give up using WeChat.

The MacRumors website in the United States reported on August 13 that the results of this report mean that the US’s move may have a “destructive” impact on Apple’s business in China. The reason is that most of WeChat’s nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users (MAU) The user is located in China.

On August 6, US President Trump signed an executive order, announcing comprehensive restrictions on two popular Chinese-related social networking software TikTok and WeChat.

The executive order stated that after 45 days from the date of signing, no one is allowed to conduct related transactions or financial transfer transactions with Tencent or its WeChat within the jurisdiction of the United States. Trump stated that WeChat “automatically captures a large amount of information from users. This kind of data collection threatens the personal information security of Americans.”