The practice has been called "factory-like" with influencers filming in a similar environment to a call center — everyone streaming in the same room or area — hawking products to thousands of viewers.
One American intelligence expert urged the U.S. to maintain friendly relations with "barbarous, but long-standing allies" in the Middle East lest China fill the vacuum.
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China is seeing a surge of COVID-19 cases as the government last week dramatically eased some of the world's strictest containment measures. On Wednesday, the government said it would stop reporting asymptomatic COVID-19 cases since they've become impossible to track with mass testing no longer required.