Mimi Lau and Kinling Lo look at the app that has 19 million daily users in the US, now facing an impending ban on 'transactions' in the US.

Hear from reporter Phoebe Zhang in Shenzhen on how WeChat embedded itself in the lives of Chinese people worldwide, how this ban will impact the Chinese diaspora in the US, and how iPhone users in mainland China will be faced with a tough choice of whether to keep their phones or keep using WeChat.

Professor Wanning Sun from the University of Technology Sydney unpacks how the Chinese diaspora in the US used WeChat in support of Donald Trump, and the inter-generational political 'revolution' during the Black Lives Matter protests.

Ron Diebert from Citizen Lab discusses the investigations into WeChat surveillance and use of user's posts and data, and how WeChat's policies compare to the revelations of Facebook, Amazon and Google. #scmppodcasts

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