Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook Source: Reuters; Call President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order ordering U.S. companies to stop doing business with popular Chinese apps TikTok, owned by ByteDance, and WeChat, owned by Tencent. This comes after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said earlier in the week …
Read More »Smartphone chips run out under U.S. sanctions
BEIJING (AP) – Chinese tech giant Huawei has stopped processing chips to make smartphones due to US sanctions and will be forced to stop production of its own most advanced chips, a company said, in a sign of growing damage to it company of Huawei from American pressure. Huawei Technologies …
Read More »China’s Inner Mongolia City Issues Warning After Bubonic Plague Patient Death
Authorities in a city in China’s Inner Mongolia region issued a warning after a patient suffering from bubonic plague died of multiple organ failure, state media reported on Saturday. Plague cases are not uncommon in China, although outbreaks have become increasingly rare. From 2009 to 2018, China reported 26 cases …
Read More »Concern that Hong Kong postpones elections for one year, citing Covid-19 | World News
The Hong Kong government has postponed its upcoming elections for a year, citing the growing outbreak of coronavirus in the territory but raising immediate accusations that the pandemic was being used as a pretext to suppress democracy. City leader Carrie Lam announced Friday that she had invoked the colonial era. …
Read More »The United States sells a record amount of corn to China despite mounting tensions
China recorded the largest purchase of corn in the US, extending its large imports of US agricultural products, the US Department of Agriculture said on Thursday, China is trying to meet the goal of the first phase of a trade agreement as plain tensions increase between the two largest economies …
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