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Trump’s plans to ban Chinese app WeChat blocked

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban WeChat over concerns the ban would threaten users’ first amendment rights

India bans 118 Chinese apps

The Indian government takes aim at Chinese tech amid rising tensions between the two countries

TikTok CEO resigns after three months

Kevin Mayer, the CEO of TikTok, quits following the Trump administration’s threat to ban the app

TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by the ‘ugly, poor and disabled’

In internal documents, the creators of video-sharing service TikTok told moderators to avoid promoting posts by users with “ugly facial looks” and other “low-quality” traits

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Tech firms shut down Chinese offices as coronavirus spreads

With more than 7,700 cases of the virus now confirmed in China, technology companies and manufacturing plants are temporarily closing their East Asian offices

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New tech could halt the decline of rural communities

All over the world, rural areas are witnessing rapid demographic decline – many are already completely abandoned. Arresting this trend and attracting people back to the countryside won’t be easy, but technology might hold the key

Insiders raise concerns as Tesla’s China factory gears up to start production

Tesla’s new $2bn factory in Shanghai, China, is on schedule to start production in October, but internal sources have suggested the factory may not meet its ambitious production targets

China dispatches government officials to Alibaba and other private companies

Government officials are being assigned to some of China’s largest corporations as the state moves to exert greater control over the private sector and maintain its dominance over entrepreneurs

China plans to breed stink bug army to fight crop infestations

As the fall armyworm, a crop-devouring caterpillar, spreads across China’s farmlands, the country’s scientists plan to use an army of stink bugs to battle the pests

China’s social credit system awards points to citizens who conform

China’s social credit system has been publicised by the government as a way of boosting trust in a broken society. In reality, all it does is exacerbate and intensify a fundamentally undemocratic system of surveillance

Huawei denies claims it is owned by the Chinese Government

Telecoms giant Huawei has claimed it is controlled by its employees through ownership of virtual shares, disputing accusations of state ownership

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Foxconn shifts iPhone production to India

The latest iPhone models will now be produced in India, rather than China, as manufacturing company Foxconn relocates its assembly facilities

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