Donald Trump is once again president — and he's already signed a slew of executive orders. Federal employees have been ordered to return to the office full time. A "national energy emergency" has been declared.
An early payoff has already been scored by TikTok, the video-sharing app that spent months currying favor with the then-candidate Trump in hopes that if he won the election, he would help it survive a threatened shutdown.
It's becoming clear that everything may be up for negotiation with President Donald Trump. That might not be a bad thing for China. The U.S. leader warned the People's Republic could face tariffs of up to 100% if Beijing does not approve a sale of TikTok,
In a special episode of Left, Right and Centre broadcast live from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, American journalist Ben Smith discussed a wide range of issues, from US President Donald Trump's move to 'save' TikTok in the US to the war in Ukraine and Gaza.
From the beginning, Trump’s political rise has been fueled by the power of tech platforms as an outside route to public attention, and a way to bypass traditional governance by talking directly to people whether via Twitter, or podcasts, or his own social-media platform.
For many of America’s 170 million TikTok users, US President Donald Trump’s move to delay a legal ban of the popular social media platform was cause for celebration. But in China, where TikTok’s parent company is based,
Friday Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao will make their public debut at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. The pair arrived from China in October and are expected to remain on loan for 10 years. If you want to see the pandas in action, the zoo will be turning its live Panda Cam back on that day.
China’s internet companies and their hard-working, resourceful professionals make world-class products, in spite of censorship and malign neglect by Beijing.