Trump moves on China apps may create new Internet 'firewall'


Fears about the global Internet ecosystem intensified this week with Trump's executive orders banning the popular video app TikTok and Chinese social network WeChat (pic). — Martin Bureau/AFP

WASHINGTON: A ban by President Donald Trump's administration on Chinese mobile apps such as TikTok and WeChat risks fragmenting an already fragile global Internet and creating an American version of China's "Great Firewall".

Fears about the global Internet ecosystem intensified this week with Trump's executive orders banning the popular video app TikTok and Chinese social network WeChat, following a US government directive to prohibit the use of other "untrusted" applications and services from China.

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