Two super-successful Chinese apps are about to be banned in the US, and they cover very different markets and are developed by very different companies.
Yet according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, both are guilty of the same thing - grafting China's internet censorship rules onto international markets.
One is TikTok - the version of Chinese tech unicorn ByteDance's native viral video app Douyin, only hosted on servers outside the mainland - while the other is WeChat, that hardly registers in the markets outside China, but has an extraordinary grip inside it as the multi-purpose digital tool covering anything from messaging to mobile payments.
The latter app has the established giant Tencent behind it - that also dabbles successfully in ownership structures in multiple US-based gaming companies.
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