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Joe Biden has one thing in common with his running mate, Kamala Harris. He says whatever he thinks he needs to say, on any given issue, depending on who he is talking to at the time. Back in January and February of this year, Biden was going around the country insisting that China is not …
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The Chinese government would reportedly rather see TikTok banned in the United States than allow a forced sale of the app to a US company. The popular video platform’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, for the past month has been in discussions to sell its US business after President Trump issued an executive order banning TikTok …
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“Mulan” pulled in soft box office sales on its opening day in China — a market where Disney had banked on raking in the big bucks. The live-action remake of the 1998 animated classic amassed just over $8 million on Friday, according to Chinese online ticketing platform Maoyan. That would put “Mulan,” which was expected …
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President Trump said he won’t give Chinese tech giant ByteDance any more time to sell TikTok’s US operations before the feds ban the popular app. “We’ll either close up TikTok in this country for security reasons or it’ll be sold,” Trump told reporters Thursday before a trip to Michigan. “I’m not extending deadlines.” The president’s …
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The University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business’ dean is on the defensive after receiving widespread backlash for his handling of an incident in which a communications professor at the school used a Chinese word that sounded like a slur in English, a new email obtained by National Review shows. Professor Greg Patton was …
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TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance is likely to miss the upcoming deadline imposed by the Trump administration to sell off the video-sharing app’s U.S. assets due to new Chinese regulations that have hampered negotiations with potential U.S. buyers. Talks with Microsoft and Oracle on buying TikTok’s U.S. operations have been delayed by the Chinese regulatory …
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Disney’s live-action remake Mulan is on track to have a lackluster premiere in China on Friday, a critical market for the movie that has been the source of political controversy involving the Chinese Communist Party. Pre-sales for tickets totaled about 9.5 million yuan ($1.4 million) on Thursday, according to Maoyan Entertainment, which operates China’s largest …
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US Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican and a China hawk, asked for a national security review of plans by GNC to sell itself to Harbin Pharmaceutical Group. Rubio made the request in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The department leads the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. GNC has said …
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The backlash around Disney’s “Mulan” is escalating, with a US senator accusing the Mouse House of “whitewashing genocide” as it cooperated with the Chinese government to get the movie made. As the film nears its theatrical debut in China on Friday, critics have pointed to a line in the movie’s credits that thanks the Xinjiang authorities, …
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TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company is reportedly in talks with the US government about a possible deal to avoid an outright sale of the popular app’s US operations. ByteDance and top US officials are negotiating possible arrangements that would allow it to maintain some ownership stake in TikTok while still satisfying the US’s demand that China …
Joe Biden has one thing in common with his running mate, Kamala Harris. He says whatever he thinks he needs to say, on any given issue, depending on who he is talking to at the time. Back in January and February of this year, Biden was going around the country insisting that China is not …
