Announcement
06 Aug 2020
By executive order and subject to a 45-day limit, the president prohibited operations in the United States by WeChat’s parent company Tencent Holdings Ltd.
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Number of interventions
1
1 certainly harmful
0 likely harmful
0 liberalising
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Implementation date
20 Sep 2020
Revocation date:
11 Jun 2021
Announced: 06 Aug 2020
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