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TikTok’s Next Big Move? To Become Facebook
The way ByteDance does that could be by following in the footsteps of Facebook. After establishing a key base through…
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Even as China Cracks Down on Tech, AI Companies Plan IPOs
The motives behind the government action are complicated. Officially, it is designed to curb anti-competitive practices, secure private data, and…
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China Targets Extreme Internet Fandoms in a New Crackdown
At its most extreme, the devotion to a celebrity can be “like an online addiction,” says Fung. In a 2019…
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LinkedIn’s Exit From China Cuts Another East-West Bridge
For Chinese regulators, even a censored US-based social network was too much. Microsoft said Thursday it would cease operating its…
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China’s Sweeping Cryptocurrency Ban Was Inevitable
Every time Beijing announces a crackdown on their industry, the running joke among the crypterati is that China has already…
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China Tutoring Industry Collapse Hurts Thousands of Teachers
The market for American tutors teaching English online to Chinese children has disappeared, bringing an end to a lucrative side…
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China Cracks Down On Its Tech Giants. Sound Familiar?
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced a six-month campaign on Monday to regulate internet companies, particularly practices that…
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TikTok a Year After Trump’s Ban: No Change, but New Threats
Saturday will mark a year since Donald Trump said he would ban the wildly popular and annoyingly addictive short-video app…
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The US Needs to Get Back in the Business of Making Chips
American innovation, from smartphones to search engines to gene sequencing, is built on a foundation of impossibly intricate, perfectly etched…
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China’s Nationalistic ‘Wolf Warriors’ Blast Foes on Twitter
On Monday, Li Yang, China’s consul general in Rio de Janeiro, took to Twitter to mock the rescue efforts following…
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