Wechat App China. Yaqiu Wang left China for Washington in 2009, but still regularly uses WeChat, China's most popular app. “I’ll ask ‘Hi, how’s your son’s school’, but nothing that will get people into. President Trump has issued a new executive order targeting WeChat, the widely-used messaging app that drives daily life in China. The order, citing security concerns, would go into effect in 45 days. Internet giant Tencent Holdings’ proposed US$2.1 billion buyout of Sogou, China’s second-largest online search service, could help supercharge its WeChat app, while shaking up a market long.
TAIPEI(Taiwan): In China, WeChat does more than any app rightfully should. People use it to talk, shop, share photos, pay bills, get their news and send money. With much of the Chinese internet locked behind a wall of filters and censors, the country’s everything app is also one of the few digital bridges connecting China to the rest of the world. WeChat is China's most popular messaging app with a monthly user base of more than 1 billion people. But it's unlikely that you would have used it if you live outside China.
President Donald Trump's executive order banning American use of WeChat, the most popular app in China, takes effect next month, but some in China are already turning to an American app renowned.
China’s widely-popular WeChat app has been making headlines recently, alongside video-sharing social networking service TikTok, after they became the target of a newly-issued executive order from US President Donald Trump, seeking to prohibit transactions on the platform by any person or involving any property under the United States' jurisdiction, due to cited national security concerns. Update, Aug. 7 (06:40 a.m. ET) New survey reveals catastrophic impact of a WeChat ban in China. A survey conducted by a Chinese finance media outlet asked Chinese people on social media what they would do if WeChat was banned from Apple's App Store. 38.6k said they would uninstall the app, but more than 678k said they would buy a different phone, revealing just how important WeChat is in China. WeChat (Chinese: 微信; pinyin: Wēixìn (); lit.: 'micro-message') is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent.First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018, with over 1 billion monthly active users. WeChat has been described as China's "app for everything" and a "super app" because of its wide range of. WeChat has grown from a voice messaging platform into a truly ubiquitous app experience in China. Owned by parent company Tencent Holdings, WeChat has over 900 million monthly active users. Those users are very active, too; the average daily time spent on the app rose to 66 minutes in 2016 – Facebook’s daily average is 50 minutes.. WeChat’s growth still shows no sign of slowing, either.
