White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro said the country will target more Chinese apps, after TikTok and WeChat.

"It is important that this country does not use applications created in China or those that can take our data and send it to servers in China," White House Trade Advisor Peter

"And that's really the basic policy stance for the reason we ban TikTok, WeChat, and there will be more applications because China is basically reaching out around the world trying to take over technology and photos.

Amid the escalating US-China tensions, US President Donald Trump on August 6 signed a decree banning US companies from trading with video-sharing application TikTok.

A week later, he continued to sign a separate executive order for ByteDance, which owns TikTok, requiring the company to divest its operations after 90 days in the US, as well as delete any American data that TikTok had collected.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also said the United States wants to ban "untrusted" Chinese apps from the country 's app stores and mobile phone manufacturers.

Trump last month confirmed that the White House is considering banning more mainland Chinese companies.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Van Ban said that the national security facility that the US uses to "suppress Chinese companies" is "unfounded", emphasizing that Chinese enterprises conduct operations.

Speaking at a press conference on August 31, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Trieu Lap Kien criticized the recent US actions, saying it was "tricks of economic bullying and political manipulation".

TikTok filed a lawsuit against the US government on Aug. 24, arguing that Trump's executive decree deprives the company of the company's right to prove it does not share data with the Chinese government, nor is it a threat.