However, actions by the US to protect its national security have also got its allies nervous. The US Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (Cloud) Act extends criminal warrants served on a US-based provider to all emails regardless of where in the world the servers are located. Essentially it means […]
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Donald Trump bans all US dealings with Chinese owners of TikTok and WeChat
President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered an unspecified ban on “transactions” with the Chinese owners of the consumer apps TikTok and WeChat. Trump had threatened a deadline of September 15 to “close down” TikTok unless Microsoft or “somebody else” bought it. TikTok, Microsoft and WeChat owner Tencent had no immediate replies to queries. US Secretary of […]
Tories demand review of Chinese involvement at Hinkley nuclear site
Senior Conservatives are this weekend demanding a review of the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant after a Sunday Telegraph investigation found a Chinese state energy company is more closely involved in the project than previously disclosed. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader, said he believes that ministers had been […]
TikTok plots new London headquarters despite Chinese security row
The company has also been building a UK advertising operation. It hired Antonia Rofagha, the former head of online advertising policy for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, as its new head of European advertising policy in March and in June, it added Gerald Blee from Amazon to serve […]
From teen dance craze to political tool. How Chinese app TikTok emerged as a force in US election
It’s the world’s goofiest social media platform. Since TikTok’s launch in China in 2016, the video streaming app’s popularity has exploded, giving rise to a strange new world of lip-synced dance routines, cat videos and other oddball content that keeps hundreds of millions of bored teenagers and young adults mesmerised. But […]
Chinese shoppers drive online retail with ‘revenge spending’
SHANGHAI — Homemaker Wu Ting rarely goes out these days to buy groceries in Shanghai’s markets and malls. During the city’s nearly four-week coronavirus lockdown, she got used to ordering ingredients online for her family of three, something she had never tried before. Although Shanghai stores began to gradually reopen […]
Chinese shoppers push online retail to new heights
SHANGHAI — Homemaker Wu Ting rarely goes out these days to buy groceries in Shanghai’s markets and malls. During the city’s nearly four-week coronavirus lockdown, she got used to ordering ingredients online for her family of three, something she had never tried before. Although Shanghai stores began to gradually reopen […]
Chinese gay dating app Blued seeks $50m IPO in US
HONG KONG — The operator of China’s largest gay dating app, Blued, is planning an initial public offering in the U.S. despite Washington’s growing suspicion of Chinese companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges. Beijing-based BlueCity Holdings, which has more than 6 million monthly users on its social networking platform, aims to […]
A year later, Shanghai’s ‘Nasdaq’ looks increasingly Chinese
SHANGHAI — As China’s STAR equity market approaches its one-year anniversary next month, the Nasdaq-like board in Shanghai appears increasingly beholden to state policy from Beijing designed to promote advanced domestic technology. The Shanghai Stock Exchange will conduct a final review of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. on Friday — less […]
Shequ: Chinese Communist Party’s coronavirus-fighting mini-unit
BEIJING — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang proudly said at the National People’s Congress on May 22: “We have made major strategic achievements in our response to COVID-19.” A key component on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus were residential communities called shequ, organizations that could be described […]