The United States Army is assessing the security of TikTok, the popular app, after concerns were raised by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), according to a new report. Reuters reports thatArmy Secretary Ryan McCarthy said on Thursday that Schumer asked him to investigate if there would be security risks if the Army continued used […]
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It’s time to boycott any company doing business in Xinjiang | Michael Caster
Forced labour in Chinas internment camps taints the supply chains of many western companies. We need to take action Any western company doing business in Xinjiang should consider their supply chains tainted by forced labour drawn from internment camps. Hardly a drop in the ocean of the vast global economy, this involves companies such as […]
How Chinese hackers turned 50,000 servers into cryptocurrency miners
At one point, the attackers had installed cryptomining malware on some 50,000 servers belonging to organizations working in the health care, telecommunications, media, and IT sectors. Cryptominers are a strand of malware that hijack the resources of infected machines to solve complicated mathematical problems and collect cryptocurrency rewards. in-depth reportAccording to Guardicores findings, the hackers […]
Paris’s Pompidou Centre to open gallery in Shanghai
The modern art gallery, which also plans to open branches in South Korea and Belgium, has been in talks for more than a decade with China The regarded as the second most important in the world after the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/19/pariss-pompidou-centre-to-open-gallery-in-shanghai Diggy
Liu Xiaobo tells foreign doctors he wants to leave China for treatment
Supporters call for democracy activist who has terminal liver cancer to receive his last wish to experience freedom but hospital says transfer would be unsafe Chinas most famous political prisoner, the Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, has told foreign doctors he wishes to leave China, a family friend has said, as supporters renewed their appeal for […]
Friends of ailing Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo ask to see him one last time
Petition launched by friends of democracy activist, who has liver cancer, urges Beijing to allow visit on humanitarian grounds Friends of Chinas most famous political prisoner, the Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, have issued a plea to Chinese authorities to be allowed one final audience with the dying activist. The Chinese democracy campaigner, who was diagnosed […]
China landslide: families’ frustration grows as more than 100 feared dead
Families affected by huge slip that buried Xinmo village say they are concerned by a lack of information and the fate of orphaned children Frustration grew on Monday among family members of victims of a landslide that buried a mountain village in southwestern China, with some complaining about a lack of information and asking why […]
Wanted in China: Beijing courts Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for visit
Chinese interests of Donald Trumps daughter and son-in-law come into spotlight again as Communist party seeks to fete influential White House couple Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have been invited to China as Beijing works to build closer ties with the influential couple inside an erratic White House. Trump, daughter of the US president, and […]
China to question Apple about use of app streaming to beat censors
Three government agencies lead crackdown on popular software which can be used to violate internet regulation Chinese authorities will question Apple over live-streaming video software available on the companys app store, amid an increasingly hostile business environment for foreign firms in the worlds second largest economy. Police, cyberspace administration and cultural law enforcement team will […]
Stellar Daisy: search for crew of huge cargo ship feared sunk in Atlantic Ocean
Only two out of 24 crew rescued after bulk carrier, which is roughly the same size as 100 tennis courts, disappears carrying iron ore from Brazil to China A South Korean cargo vessel is missing after making its last contact in the South Atlantic about 2,500km (1,500 miles) from shore and 22 crew members are […]