CHINA-US: US FEDERAL TEMPORARILY BLOCKS BAN ON TIK TOK

A US Federal district judge blocked a key part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s TikTok ban from going into effect on September 27 night, even as its Chinese parent ByteDance has yet to form a plan for the popular video app that would satisfy either Washington or Beijing. Following a 90-minute hearing on September 27 morning, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols rejected part of the U.S. Justice Department’s argument that barring Trump’s order would “infringe on the president’s authority to block business-to-business economic transactions with a foreign entity in the midst of a declared national-security emergency.” Nichols's preliminary injunction temporarily halts the ban on new downloads of the video-sharing app, which would have gone into effect at 11:59 p.m. September 27 in Washington. 





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