A growing chorus is calling for a ban on the companies’ equipment over its purported use for surveillance in Xinjiang. A new public-procurement bill could lead to a ban on government purchases.
Economy-crippling sanctions levied against Moscow serve as a ‘textbook warning for China’, but its prominent position in the global supply chain could hinder any US-led efforts to punish Beijing.
Many Chinese who borrowed millions to invest in property, or who hitched their wagon to a now-curtailed tech firm, are growing increasingly fearful of salary reductions, lay-offs, crackdowns and lockdowns.
The decentralised file-sharing protocol IPFS, called the ‘backbone’ of Web3, presents new challenges to Chinese censorship, and an illegal book-sharing platform illustrates why.
South America’s Lithium Triangle contains more than half of the world’s reserves of the critical metal that is used in batteries, but its sourcing has been politicised amid geopolitical tensions with the West.