Tencent’s all-in-one messaging app is next in line for a White House ban after TikTok. Blocking WeChat, crucial within the People’s Republic, would protect overseas Chinese from Beijing’s spies, but cut them off from home. That will hasten the decoupling of the internet, Pete Sweeney says.

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