A US WeChat ban could hurt many in America, not just China
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For millions of people in the U.S. who use the Chinese app WeChat, it’s a lifeline to friends, family, customers and business contacts in China.That lifeline is now under attack by an executive order from President Donald Trump that could ban the app in the U.S. as early as mid-September, potentially severing vital relationships.“It’s the first thing I check in the morning,” Sha Zhu, a Chinese-American in Washington, says of WeChat. “We haven’t really thought through what that looks like.”Indianapolis college student Seth Workman was introduced to WeChat last year while studying abroad in China, where he used it to chat with coworkers at a hotel where he worked.But when Workman returned to the U.S. last fall, he started using it to order $6 lunches from a local Chinese restaurant that took orders from a group chat of about 60 people.
As said here by TALI ARBEL, KELVIN CHAN and JOSEPH PISANI