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Icons for the smartphone apps TikTok and WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, in a Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 file photo. Officials say the White House has dropped Trump-era executive orders that attempted to ban the popular apps TikTok and WeChat and will conduct its own review aimed at identifying national security risks with software applications tied to China. A new executive order directs the Commerce Department to undertake what officials describe as an “evidence-based” analysis of transactions involving apps that are manufactured or supplied or controlled by China. Officials are particularly concerned about apps that collect users’ personal data or have connections to Chinese military or intelligence activities. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) **FILE**

Biden revokes Trump executive orders against Chinese apps TikTok, WeChat

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2020 file photo, Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo, center, shouts from the bench in the first half of an NBA conference semifinal playoff basketball game against the Miami Heat in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Antetokounmpo has appeared in a government ad in his native Greece, released ahead of Christmas to urge people to observe public safety measures during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

NBA studying ways to bring games back overseas in future

By TIM REYNOLDS - Associated Press

People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. Asian stock markets rose for second day Tuesday on hopes for progress toward a possible coronavirus vaccine that might allow the world to revive manufacturing, shopping and normal life. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Asian shares mostly higher as focus shifts to virus recovery

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

Icons for the smartphone apps WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, on Aug. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

WeChat to continue; Trump admin. loses appeal of federal judge’s halt of app ban

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Fans cheer return of NBA broadcasts in China

Associated Press

Los Angeles Lakers forward Anthony Davis makes a 3-point basket with 40 seconds left on the clock in Game 4 of basketball's NBA Finals against the Miami Heat Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) **FILE**

NBA returning to Chinese state television after 1-year ban

By TIM REYNOLDS - Associated Press

Icons for the smartphone apps WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, on Aug. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Trump administration appeals federal judge’s blockade of WeChat ban to 9th Circuit

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 file photo, Icons for the smartphone apps TikTok and WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing. The U.S. government is cracking down on the Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat, starting by barring them from app stores on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Q&A: What does banning TikTok and WeChat mean for users?

By MATT O'BRIEN and TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

FILE - Icons for the smartphone apps TikTok and WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, in a Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 file photo. The Commerce Department said President Trump’s proposed ban of the apps WeChat and TikTok will go into effect Sunday, Sept. 20, to “safeguard the national security of the United States.” The government said its order, previously announced by Trump in August, will “combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data.” (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns

By TALI ARBEL and MATT O'BRIEN and MATT OTT - Associated Press

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah, right, scores his side's third goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Leeds United, at the Anfield stadium, in Liverpool, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. (Paul Ellis, Pool via AP)

EPL to air in China again through Tencent deal

Associated Press

Sha Zhu, of Washington, who uses the app WeChat to keep in touch with family and friends in the U.S. and China, poses for a portrait, Tuesday Aug. 18, 2020, in Washington. For millions of people in the U.S. who use the Chinese app WeChat, it's a lifeline to friends, family, customers and business contacts in China. That lifeline is now under attack by an executive order from President Donald Trump that could ban the app in the U.S. as early as mid-September, potentially severing vital relationships. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A US WeChat ban could hurt many in America, not just China

By TALI ARBEL and KELVIN CHAN and JOSEPH PISANI - Associated Press

Chinese electric car brand NIO looks at expansion abroad

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he finishes speaking during an event at the Whirlpool Corporation facility in Clyde, Ohio, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

As Trump digs in, will it be US versus China in tech?

By ZEN SOO and TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

Trump moves against Chinese owners of TikTok and WeChat apps

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

A visitor to an Apple store wears a t-shirt promoting Tik Tok in Beijing on Friday, July 17, 2020. U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, Aug 6, 2020 ordered a sweeping but unspecified ban on dealings with the Chinese owners of consumer apps TikTok and WeChat, although it remains unclear if he has the legal authority to actually ban the apps from the U.S. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Q&A: What’s up with Trump’s orders on TikTok and WeChat?

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2019 file photo, Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather speeds down the course as a banner advertising the ski world championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo is seen in the background, during an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy. The Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) announced Sunday, May 24, 2020 that it would like to postpone next year’s Alpine skiing world championships in Cortina until March 2022 in order to avoid the championships being canceled or shortened due to the fallout in Italy from the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta, file)

The Latest: NWSL moves to allow training in small groups

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Study: WeChat content outside China used for censorship

By FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

In this April 8, 2020, photo, exhausted AP staffers Olivia Zhang, center and Sam McNeil, right, rest on the banks of the Yangtze River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. For AP journalist Sam McNeil, getting into Wuhan was easy compared to the trials of securing a train ticket, getting nucleic tests, green codes, neighborhood approvals and submitting to electronic monitoring to find his way home to Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Leaving Wuhan: Getting into virus-hit city was the easy part

By SAM McNEIL - Associated Press

Palettes of N95 respirator masks are off-loaded from the New England Patriots football team's customized Boeing 767 jet on the tarmac, Thursday, April 2, 2020, at Logan Airport in Boston, after returning from China. The Kraft family deployed the Patriots team plane to China to fetch more than one million masks for use by front-line health care workers to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

Patriots use team plane to help Massachusetts, fly N95 in from China

By Kyle Hightower - Associated Press

In this March 28, 2019, photo, Yin Hao, who also goes by Yin Qiang, holds a Tylox pill while sitting in a tea house in Xi'an, northwestern China's Shaanxi Province. Officially, pain pill abuse is an American problem, not a Chinese one. But people in China have fallen into opioid abuse the same way many Americans did, through a doctor's prescription. And despite China's strict regulations, online trafficking networks, which facilitated the spread of opioids in the U.S., also exist in China. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Want OxyContin in China? Pain pill addicts get drugs online

By ERIKA KINETZ - Associated Press