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Five crucial questions for France's Macron as he embarks on Chinese trip

As French President Emmanuel Macron starts his four-day visit to China, he will have to keep in mind Beijing's attitude on several crucial questions. These include democracy in Hong Kong and the status of the independent nationalist island of Taiwan.

Radio France Internationale

TikTok is to be banned from government devices over security fears. How big is the threat and could it soon be banned for everyone?

It's been announced TikTok is to be banned on government-issued devices. But what's the fuss about and what happens next?

ABC News

Rand Paul Is Right: Banning TikTok Would Be Idiotic

Three reasons not to ban the popular social media app

Reason

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Peng Shuai’s Condition Is Still Unknown. And the WTA Will Soon Have to Choose: Principle or Profit?

The tour has effectively boycotted China since she went missing 17 months ago—but key decisions on the future schedule loom.

Sports Illustrated

Axios Investigates: Chinese activists' names used in bomb threats across U.S. and EU

The journalist and two activists targeted by the harassment campaign believe it is backed by Beijing.

Axios

Banning TikTok Is a Power the Federal Government Doesn't Deserve

Today, TikTok. Tomorrow, who knows?

Reason

Obernolte, Johnson use tech backgrounds to question TikTok CEO

WASHINGTON — Two lawmakers questioning TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew before a House panel last week flashed their tech credentials, challenging Chew’s reassurances about the safety of the video sharing app for U.S. users.

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Obernolte, Johnson use tech backgrounds to question TikTok CEO - Roll Call

Two lawmakers use their tech experience to go beneath the surface of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's reassurances about the safety of the app.

Roll Call

New allegations and a resignation strain already fraught China-Canada relations

Han Dong’s departure escalates row over allegations that Beijing meddled in Canada’s elections as friction between countries grows

The Guardian - US

How the TikTok hearing went bad

Sure, TikTok is problematic — but social media delivers a withering verdict on GOP’s racist scare-mongering

Salon

Commentary: TikTok CEO: Pay no attention to the people who sign my paycheck

TikTok’s CEO is asking America to trust him to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Let’s not.

Tribune News Service

‘Like a war zone’: Congress hears of China’s abuses in Xinjiang ‘re-education camps’

Pair tell of witnessing or experiencing torture and brainwashing, as Republicans and Democrats vow to document ‘genocide’

The Guardian - US

Congress Asks Is TikTok Really 'An Extension of' the Chinese Communist Party?

TikTok's CEO served as little more than a punching bag for lawmakers with a dizzying array of big tech grievances.

Reason

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faces off with US legislators in hearing

Bipartisan support to ban the app has grown over concerns of Chinese government influence, spread of ‘harmful content’.

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The Guardian - US

TikTok hearing: CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before US Congress amid looming ban – as it happened

App’s future in doubt as Biden administration threatens to ban it entirely in the country – follow all the latest

The Conversation

Taoist rituals via video call and Tarot readings over WeChat: China’s spiritual market is going digital

Since its inception in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has officially promoted an atheist and materialist ideology. But belief systems in China are making a comeback – and this comeback is largely happening online.

ABC News

New Zealand to ban TikTok on parliamentary devices, as researchers warn Australian politicians of 'proven' ties to China's government

New Zealand is effectively banning Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from the phones of MPs over cybersecurity concerns.

Foreign Policy

China Is Tweaking Its Propaganda for African Audiences

A concerted media campaign has not done much for Beijing’s image.

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The Changing Face of Chinese Governance

During his first two terms in office, Xi sent signals that created a range of mixed incentives that will guide Chinese governance over the next five years.

Al Jazeera

Chinese tycoon and Bannon ally Guo Wengui charged with $1bn fraud

Chinese billionaire and CCP critic is accused of pocketing investment funds from his thousands of followers online.

Reason

Want To Beat China? Let in More Chinese!

More immigration from China would both hobble a geopolitical rival and make America richer and better.

The Guardian - AU

China’s ‘rotten girls’ are escaping into erotic fiction about gay men

Danmei is by some measures the most popular genre of fiction for women in China, and its popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Communist party

The National (Scotland)

David Pratt: It's a sensitive time for US-Sino relations

CHINA’S foreign minister Qin Gang is not a man to mince his words. At a news conference last week during the annual session of what’s been…

The Independent UK

Lawmaker blasts China on human rights in front of embassy

The Republican chairman of a special House committee dedicated to countering China is pulling no punches in his criticism of its communist government

The Canberra Times

'Brainwashed' man sorry for 'shocking' assault on anti-CCP activist near Floriade

The victim has wiped away tears while detailing the impact of the incident.

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