US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from app stores on Jan. 19 By Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chair and prime Democrat on a U.S. Home of Representatives committee on China on Friday advised the CEOs of Google-parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:) and Apple (NASDAQ:) they have to be able to take away TikTok from their U.S. app shops on Jan. 19.

Final week, a U.S. federal appeals court docket upheld a regulation requiring Chinese language-based ByteDance to divest TikTok in the USA or face a ban. Consultant John Moolenaar, a Republican, and Consultant Raja Krishnamoorthi individually urged TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew to promote the brief video app utilized by 170 million Individuals. “Congress has acted decisively to defend the nationwide safety of the USA and shield TikTok’s American customers from the Chinese language Communist Occasion. We urge TikTok to right away execute a professional divestiture, the lawmakers wrote.