US ban on TikTok is "temporarily not enforced". Expert: TikTok's future in the US is still full of uncertainty

Source: Global Times [Zheng Ke, a special correspondent of Global Times in the United States, Yu Wen, Wang Huicong] On November 12, the US Department of Commerce said that the TikTok trading ban, which was originally scheduled to take effect on the same day, would not be implemented, because the judge of the Federal District of Philadelphia issued a preliminary injunction against Trump's TikTok administrative order last month.
On the same day, the United States Department of Justice announced an appeal against the judge's decision.
The Wall Street Journal said on the 13th that this was the latest sign that the Trump government was in trouble in its attempt to turn TikTok into an American company.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) commented that TikTok's challenge to Trump's ban "won the first round", "but for this Chinese technology company that has suffered a lot in the United States, we cannot relax".
Many American media pointed out that suppressing TikTok was Trump's priority, but now "the urgency has eased".
It is unclear how Biden, who is about to take office, will respond to this situation.
The Wall Street Journal said that the order, originally scheduled to take effect at midnight on the 12th, would prohibit American companies such as Apple from providing TikTok mobile applications in their app stores, and prohibit companies such as Amazon and Alphabet from providing TikTok with network hosting services.
These measures would actually make TikTok inoperable in the United States.
The US Department of Commerce announced on the 12th that it would suspend the enforcement of the injunction, saying that "further judicial progress is needed", and cited the preliminary injunction issued by a federal district judge in Philadelphia on October 30.
The restraining order was made in response to the lawsuit of three TikTok Internet celebrities.
The judge believed that the above actions of the Trump government posed a threat to "the effective exchange of information and materials".
The U.S.
government's own description of the threat to national security posed by TikTok was hypothetical, and the relevant actions exceeded the authorization of the government under the International Emergency Economic Power Act.
Previously, the Trump government had relied on the law to take action against TikTok.
The commentary said that the background of the above "concessions" made by the US Department of Commerce was that a series of legal challenges launched by TikTok and its allies recently weakened the suppression action of the US government.
The BBC said that Trump had issued two administrative orders against TikTok.
Article 1 is issued on August 6, which is divided into two time points: TikTok downloading and updating in the United States will be prohibited from September 27;
US Internet operators are prohibited from providing services to TikTok since November 12.
At present, the two prohibitions have been suspended by a federal district judge.
The US Department of Justice has filed an appeal, and the lawsuit will continue.
However, TikTok is also threatened by Trump's second executive order, which was issued on August 14 on the basis of the "recommendations" provided by the United States Foreign Investment Commission (CFIUS).
The ban requires ByteDance to divest all U.S.
assets of TikTok within 90 days on the ground of "endangering national security".
The expiration date is also November 12, which can be extended for up to 30 days.
On November 10, TikTok filed a lawsuit against the injunction in the Federal Court of Appeal in Washington, D.C.
The lawsuit also seems to have made vague progress.
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