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Today is Monday, August 3rd.

And this is your FT news briefing.

It's not just Tik-T-T-T-T-Talk anymore.

The Trump administration wants to go after other Chinese tech groups too.

Plus we'll hear from Economist Bill Spriggs about how the pandemic has changed the

U.S. labor market. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

Now we don't know what form it will take, but the Trump administration is threatening to take action

against Chinese software companies it considers a security risk. That's what U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

told Fox News on Sunday.

These Chinese software companies doing business

in the United States, whether it's Tik-Tok or We-Chat,

there are countless more,

are feeding data directly to the Chinese Communist Party

their national security apparatus.

Bike Dance, which owns Tik-Toc, has denied these types of allegations in the past.

Mr. Pompeo didn't offer much detail, but said President Trump would take action in the coming days.

I'm joined by the F.T. Washington correspondent Amy Williams and our technology correspondent,

Hannah Murphy, who's in San Francisco, to talk about the Trump administration's approach to Chinese technology

companies.

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