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China 06/28/22, 18:52

According to VOA, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Beijing may not use the full-scale military to annex Taiwan. However, to achieve its goal, it could take other coercive actions.  Specifically, Gates said, China can put tremendous pressure on Taiwan without having to open fire through cyber attacks ...

Weapon/Army 06/28/22, 09:20

According to ET, in response to the current threat of China's regime, the US Air Force restarted the 65th Aggressor Squadron this month and announced that the fifth-generation jet fighter F-35 would be used to deal with the potential threat from China's J-20. According to 19 Fortyfive, The 65th Aggressor Squadron ...

China 06/27/22, 09:46

The White House announced on June 24 that five countries, including the U.S., Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, have formed an informal group.  The group, named Partners in the Blue Pacific (PBP), aims to boost economic and diplomatic ties with Pacific island nations. In the statement, the White House ...

Corruption 06/26/22, 03:47

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) announced that new Orange Line cars made by Chinese state-owned company CRRC were again out of service. According to ET, MBTA said that a new Orange Line train faced a mechanical problem in one of the train’s “multiple braking units” on May 19.  Boston Globe cited officials ...

Morality 06/21/22, 07:28

Buzz Feed News reported that leaked recordings from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings show that China-based employees of ByteDance have repeatedly accessed nonpublic data about US TikTok users. In the recordings, eight employees gave statements about TikTok’s infiltration of U.S. user data. It revealed that TikTok employees in the US ...

China 06/19/22, 04:08

A former Chinese professor at the University of Arkansas and NASA researcher has been sentenced to 12 months and one day behind bars for being dishonest about his patents in China.  According to a statement released by the U.S. Department of Justice on June 16, Dr. Simon Saw-Teong Ang, or Hong ...

China 06/17/22, 01:42

China has steadily distanced itself from Western enterprises, particularly American businesses, because of its severe anti-epidemic strategy and strict censorship. However, reality shows that American companies are still growing. A Hollywood blockbuster that wasn't released in China had a significant box office triumph in early June. "Defender: The Lone Ranger" took ...

China 06/15/22, 03:36

According to Reuters, a bipartisan group of lawmakers announced Monday that they have reached a proposal that would give the U.S. government powers to block U.S. investment in China. The House Foreign Affairs Committee lawmakers stated that they have discussed with related parties "on developing a robust, targeted outbound investment mechanism ...

Human Rights 06/12/22, 02:36

Many American employees at Chinese internet tech company ByteDance have decided to quit its U.S. office. According to the Wall Street Journal, one of the reasons is that its subsidiary TikTok exports China’s strict management style to the U.S. TikTok is a unit of Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd. It was founded six ...

US-China 06/10/22, 00:41

The U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, announced on June 8 that it had suspended three American companies for allegedly illegally exporting satellite and sensitive military prototypes to China.  Those products are subject to strict U.S. export controls because of their sensitivity and importance to U.S. national security. The ...

China 06/09/22, 08:55

According to Bloomberg, a top Chinese economist suggests invading Taiwan to seize global chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) if the U.S. imposes Russia-like sanctions on China.  Chen Wenling, a chief economist at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, made the suggestion last month at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies ...

Economy 06/08/22, 04:07

China’s ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing will say goodbye to the U.S. stock market in June, just one year after its public debut on Wall Street. According to Apollo News, Didi announced that it officially applied to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 2. Ten days later, the company would ...

Economy 06/08/22, 03:59

The White House announced on June 6 that the U.S. would lift import tariffs on solar panels for two years from Southeast Asia but not for China.  The U.S. removes tariffs on solar panel imports from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam to "ensure the U.S. has access to a sufficient supply ...

China 06/07/22, 03:55

Tom Cruise’s Top Gun sequel Maverick scored a huge success as it kicked off the summer movie season, grossing 248 million dollars in its first weekend worldwide. By the fourth day after its release, that number exceeded 300 million dollars. It has already earned roughly three-quarters of its production cost. Besides ...

Tech 06/06/22, 04:03

According to the Wall Street Journal, a deal to buy U.K semiconductor from a Chinese-owned company may fall apart after the U.S. intervenes.  The U.K government on May 25 started a national security probe into the deal from a Chinese-controlled firm of a British chip factory.  Britain’s business secretary said, “We welcome ...

In-depth Reports 05/31/22, 01:06

Foreigners could seriously disable U.S. information technology networks, even if America used every available resource to defend itself. This is the dire conclusion a former defense expert reached after reviewing the nation’s cyber security protections. Nicolas Chaillan is deeply concerned hackers could force the United States to its knees. The former ...