Cut and shut

By Suhauna Hussain and Taylor Avery

US President Donald Trump signed executive orders barring business transactions with WeChat and TikTok, the popular video service. – AP

CINDY Wang’s whole life is on WeChat.

Through the Chinese everything app, the 24-year-old shops for clothing and sends photos and audio messages to her grandma and uncle in Guangzhou.

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