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Does the Chinese government have officials inside TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, pulling the strings? And does the storing of data from the popular social media app outside of China protect Americans?These questions appear to dominate the current thinking in the U.S. over whether to ban TikTok if its owner, Chinese technology giant ByteDance, refuses to sell the platform.But in my opinion – forged through 40 years as a scholar of China, its political economy and business – both questions obscure a more interesting…

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that would give China's ByteDance about six months to divest popular short video app TikTok or face a U.S. ban.Representative Mike Gallagher, the Republican chair of the House of Representatives' select China committee and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, the top Democrat, are introducing legislation along with more than a dozen other lawmakers to address national security concerns posed by Chinese ownership of the app.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with…

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) defended pressing TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew about potential ties to the Chinese Communist Party at a Senate hearing Wednesday. “Singapore, unfortunately, is one of the places in the world that has the highest degree of infiltration and influence by the Chinese Communist Party,” Cotton said on Fox News’s “The Story With Martha MacCallum” Wednesday. “So, Mr. Chew has a lot to answer for, for what his app is doing in America and why it’s doing it.” Chew, alongside other social media…

Digital Trends TikTok is feeling the heat again after a former leading executive at its parent company, Byte Dance, made a series of damning claims in a wrongful dismissal lawsuit filed recently in the San Francisco Superior Court Among the allegations made by Yintao Yu were that the Chinese Community Party (CCP) “maintained supreme access” to TikTok data stored in the U.S. when he worked for the company between 2017 and 2018. Yu also said in the lawsuit that he believes ByteDance “has served as a useful propaganda…

A group of scientists in China have claimed to have developed “mind-reading” artificial intelligence systems that could measure the loyalty of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members. Researchers at China's Comprehensive National Science Center in Hefei said that the software could measure party members' reactions to “thought and political education” by analysing facial expressions and brain waves.According to Voice of America (VoA), the researchers said that the results can be used to “further solidify their confidence and…

Due to worries about eavesdropping during a summit of Chinese Communist Party leaders, Elon Musk’s Tesla cars have been prohibited from entering the Chinese town Beidaihe for the next two months. The northeastern Chinese city of Beidaihe has long been the setting for a covert gathering of China’s top officials every summer. As reported, the restriction will go into force on July 1 and in terms of the reason behind this decision, local police stated that the Tesla car ban was due to “national affairs”. Just a few weeks…