WeChat: Donald Trump’s ban of Chinese app follows years of spying claims


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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 trouble,” she says. “I don’t talk about anything that the Chinese government would consider sensitive or could endanger people, because I am acutely aware of how it is being surveilled.” WeChat, dubbed a “super app” because it allows users to do anything from making a dinner reservation, paying for parking, to buying groceries, looks set to be booted from the United States next month, along with social media sensation...