The Supreme Court has upheld a law targeting TikTok and its parent company ByteDance that will lead to the app being banned in the US from 19 January, but could President-Elect Trump save it when he is sworn into office on Monday, 20 January? We answer some pressing questions about the short video app Who or what is ByteDance? ByteDance is a Chinese-owned tech giant founded in March 2012 by …
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As a potential US ban on TikTok looms, users have been flocking to download Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, pushing the app to number one on US app stores. But what is Xiaohongshu, and is it even like TikTok? With the US Supreme Court seeming increasingly likely to uphold a law banning TikTok over national security concerns unless parent company ByteDance sells the platform to a non China based company …
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Grassroots collaborations between China and the US aren’t completely doomed, explains Matt Sheehan, but they may provide an opening for the UK
by Paul Frenchby Paul FrenchMatt Sheehan spoke to Paul French about his book “The Transpacific Experiment,” which discusses interdependent socioeconomic exchanges in the field of tech. Matt Sheehan is a Fellow at the Paulson Institute’s in-house think tank. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he was formerly the China correspondent for The Huffington Post. His recent book “The Transpacific Experiment: How China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our Future” (Counterpoint, 2019) argued …