He's gonna ban yet more social media.

We're looking at a New York Times story entitled

"Trump Bans Alipay and 7 Other Chinese Apps."

What President Trump did yesterday

is issue an executive order which prohibits

these Chinese pay apps from doing transactions.

If we're looking at the exact ones that are banned,

it is Alipay, it is CamScanner, QQ Wallet,

SHAREit, Tencent QQ, Vmate, WeChat Pay, and WPS Office.

In China, lots of different citizens

do all their online commerce using pay apps.

And so, this really, this executive order

which bands these apps in America

really does hinder Chinese app commerce.

And so it has a big effect on the future

for Chinese commerce.

Now, a lot of people are saying

why is president Trump doing this ban again?

You'll remember back in, I believe September of 2020,

President Trump banned not only Tiktok, but also WeChat.

Well, the reason why he's banning again, these apps,

is because he believes it's a national security threat.

He says that a lot of these different apps collect a lot

of different information, private information,

and the Chinese government can somehow have access

to this information

through these Chinese companies

and could blackmail potentially Americans,

could maybe spy on Americans.

And he says that's a big enough threat

that he wants to ban these different apps.

So, we'll look at this paragraph right here.

It says here it's quoting the executive order.

"In the order, the president said

that China had been using 'bulk data collection'

to advance its economic and national security agenda

that the targeted apps put Americans at risk."

So, that's the reason that he's advancing

for banning these apps.

My question to you, which you can put in the comments below,

is do you believe this?

Do you believe that China is,

one, trying to get Americans private data

in order to somehow hurt America,

hurt our economic interests.

And then also, let me know if we're doing this to China,

you know, there's a lot of other different countries

that Americans use their apps from.

In other words, there are, you know,

let's say Israel has a number

of different countries that have apps that Americans use.

If we're gonna ban China apps,

should we ban other countries' apps?

Let me know in the comments section below.

We're gonna get into a little more discussion here.

China, of course, is extremely angry about this of course.

A spokesperson from China's Foreign Ministry

says "another example of American bullying,

hegemonic behavior, which has overextended

the concept of national security, abused national power,

and unreasonably suppressed foreign companies.

It harms others without benefiting itself."

So, they're angry and they're gonna take action

to protect their Chinese companies

and maybe they'll take action against America.

We don't know.

Now, how does this affect you?

And who does this affect the most?

Your first thought might be, this affects Chinese Americans.

People who use these Chinese pay apps when they go back

and forth between America and China.

You'll know that a lot of these apps actually require you

to have a Chinese bank account

or you've gotta be referred from a citizen of China.

So, a lot of us don't have access to these apps.

So, who does it really hurt?

I'm thinking, not just Chinese Americans,

but more importantly, Joe Biden.

You know, you've gotta remember,

Joe Biden may be president soon

and if he is, then he's gonna be saddled

with his executive order which requires a 45 day period

of investigation by the government.

So, in order to unwind this executive order,

he may face a concern about looking weak with China.

He doesn't wanna look like, you know,

an executive order's passed

and there's really evidence to support it

and then all of a sudden he takes the presidency

and he says, "Oh, you know what?

I don't really want this executive order."

It may hurt his reputation

with China and the U.S. reputation with China.

So, there are a number of different possible effects

of this executive order.

It is also interesting how President Trump

with, I mean, I think he's out of office allegedly

on January 20th of 2021,

why he's passing these executive orders?

It's also interesting,

are there going to be more executive orders

that he rushes to get out before he gets out of office?

Apparently.

Let me know in the comment section below

about what you think about this executive order

which bands yet more social media.

You have to remember, this is like the first time

the president of the United States,

and I don't mean just Trump, I mean any president

of the United States is actively passing

or enacting executive orders

that ban certain social media apps.

Do you think this is appropriate?

Should presidents issue executive orders that ban an app?

It kinda doesn't make sense to me.

Oftentimes I don't know exactly what the logistics are

of banning an app.

So, what do you think?

Let me know in the comments section below

and I'll see you soon.

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