When users opened the TikTok app on Saturday, they encountered a pop-up message that said, “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now”. ADVERTISEMENT Millions of TikTok users in the United States are no longer able to watch videos on the social media platform as a federal ban on the immensely popular app takes effect. The company’s […]
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TikTok is facing a ban in the United States on Sunday after the country’s Supreme Court upheld a federal law to shut it down or force its sale. ADVERTISEMENT The US Supreme Court on Friday voted to unanimously uphold the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday, unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company. The
The call came the same day that the US Supreme Court backed a law banning TikTok unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company. ADVERTISEMENT Days ahead of his inauguration and amid vows to impose tariffs on America’s biggest rival, US President-elect Donald Trump spoke with China’s leader Xi Jinping in a phone call on
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Exports have surged as companies and consumers rush to beat potential US tariff hikes. However, some economists say China’s economy is growing at a slower pace than official estimates show. ADVERTISEMENT China’s economy expanded at a 5% annual pace in 2024, slower than the year before but in line with Beijing’s target of “around 5%”
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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — While Japan’s Cabinet has approved a record defense budget for 2025, the 13th growth year in a row, Tokyo’s military posture vis-à-vis regional threats remains a work on progress, according a U.S. analyst. Grant Newsham, senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, told Defense News that “decades of
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BERLIN — Chinese scientists have been researching ways to cut undersea cables since at least the late 2000s, according to a recent report in the U.S. magazine Newsweek. The revelation comes amid a series of events in which undersea infrastructure in geopolitically tense regions was damaged under unclear circumstances. Reporters at Newsweek uncovered two patent applications Chinese
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The Air Force under a Trump administration could choose to pursue a more advanced successor to the F-35 instead of the costly Next Generation Air Dominance platform to maintain air superiority, outgoing Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Monday. Kendall suggested alternative paths for the Air Force’s future combat fleet at a Center for Strategic
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President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to raise tariffs on Chinese goods and close some loopholes that exporters now use to sell their products more cheaply in the US. ADVERTISEMENT China’s exports in December grew at a faster pace than expected, as factories rushed to fill orders to beat higher tariffs threatened by US President-elect Donald
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The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China warned that the trend could accelerate deglobalisation and reduce global economic growth. ADVERTISEMENT European companies in China are under increasing pressure to separate their China-based functions from their global operations in response to stringent regulatory requirements and escalating geopolitical and trade uncertainties, according to a new report
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MANILA, Philippines — In late July 2021, as Lloyd Austin arrived at Malacañan Palace, the grand presidential estate in the heart of Manila, his team feared a catastrophe. America’s new defense secretary was here to see Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines’ combative president, famous for once swearing at Barack Obama. Duterte was threatening to end a
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