(Finance) – From the expected ban on TikTok to aid for the wars in Ukraine and Israel and for the conflict in Taiwan. The President of the United States Joe Biden signed a series of long-awaited bills, saying “legislation passed by Congress will make the United States and the world safer.”
“If our allies are stronger, so are we,” underlined the American President, assuring that the first military aid will depart in the next few hours.
The USA iThey will send $1 billion worth of new weapons to Kiev – confirmed the Pentagon – including air defense systems, artillery shells, armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons. But according to American media, the US has already secretly sent Atacms weapons and missiles to Ukraine last week and these weapons have already been used by Kiev to attack the military airport in Crimea and other military actions in the southeast of the country.
“Today’s U.S. military aid package for Ukraine is vital,” the president quickly replied Volodymyr Zelenskythanking the Americans and adding “”it is essential that the agreements reached between me and President Biden are fully implemented”.
Meanwhile, also the European Commission provided Ukraine with the second tranche of the bridge loan extraordinary planned within the Ukraine facility, for an amount of 1.5 billion euros.
For the war in Israel, Biden signed a package of humanitarian aid in Gazawarning that “Israel must ensure that aid reaches the Palestinians without delay”
It also finally arrived ban against TikTok, for security and privacy reasons. As part of the $95 billion foreign aid package, the US Senate passed legislation that could ban the use of TikTok, if ByteDancethe company that manages the Chinese social network, will not sell the platform within six months.
The CEO Shou Zi Chewn, has already announced an appeal. “This unconstitutional law bans TikTok and we intend to challenge it in court,” the company responded, adding “we have invested billions of dollars to ensure the security of US user data and to protect our platform from external influence and manipulation Implementation of this ban would have devastating effects, compromising the operations of 7 million businesses and limiting the freedom of expression of 170 million Americans.”