Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) questions witnesses during a hearing about Venezuela in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Aug. 04, 2020. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is urging the U.S. administration to extend a transaction ban to WeChat’s sister app, QQ, in a bid to counter “hazards posed by high-risk Chinese telecommunications hardware and software.”
Like WeChat, the instant messaging app QQ is developed by Chinese tech giant Tencent.
Eva Fu is an award-winning, New York-based journalist for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]
