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该报告是在美国大选前，中美两国在技术和社交媒体方面的紧张关系日益升温之际发布的。周三，白宫表示，正在加紧清理美国数字网络中“不受信任”的中国应用，并称中国的短视频应用TikTok和通讯应用微信（Wechat）是“重大威胁”。
purge
1）表示“清除，清洗，肃清（对手或反对者）”，英文解释为“to force people to leave a place or organization because the people in power do not like them”；
2）也可以指“清除（有害或不可接受之物）”，英文解释为：to remove something that is thought to be harmful or unacceptable，举个：
He closed his eyes and lay still, trying to purge his mind of anxiety.
他闭上眼睛躺着不动，试图清除心里的焦虑。
美剧《美国恐怖故事》（American Horror Story: Asylum）第二季中的台词提到：I"ll purge the demon myself. 我来净化这个邪灵。

TikTok faces a deadline of 15 September to either sell its US operations to Microsoft or face an outright ban. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said a US campaign called “Clean Network” would focus on five areas and include steps to prevent various Chinese apps, as well as Chinese telecoms companies, from accessing sensitive information on American citizens and businesses.