Donald Trump has again stepped up pressure Thursday against the popular social network, as well as the chinese platform WeChat, with radical decisions, of a nature to inflame tensions with China.

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The president signed a decree prohibiting, within 45 days, any transaction, "persons under u.s. jurisdiction" with ByteDance, home-chinese mother of TikTok.