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China's Tencent Music Entertainment Group beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Monday, as a wider content library led to a surge in paid subscribers for the company's music streaming service.

The value of TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is reportedly under pressure nearing the either forced sale or ban of its most valuable asset.

For the first time in a generation, America is pushing back on China. On all fronts, President Trump has called a halt to China's aggressive expansion.

Apple recently reported third-quarter earnings that saw a return to growth for the iPhone, however, shipments of the smartphone could drop as much as 30% if the tech giant is forced to remove WeChat from its App Store, according to one analyst.  

China said it would apply sanctions against 11 U.S. citizens including officials from Monday in response to Washington's move on Friday to impose sanctions on 11 Hong Kong and Chinese officials whom it accused of curtailing political freedoms in the city.

Media tycoon and outspoken Beijing critic Jimmy Lai has reportedly been arrested by Hong Kong authorities under the pretenses of a national security law that has been used to crack down on dissidents since its passage in June.

The move by Blackstone comes as ByteDance is facing pressure from the White House to sell TikTok to a U.S. company or face the likelihood that the app will be banned in the U.S. over concerns that the Chinese government uses customer data for surveillance purposes.

President Trump widened the scope of his strict foreign policy targeting Chinese tech this week when he effectively banned WeChat by executive order.

Social media giant TikTok is planning to sue the Trump administration over its ban of the app in the United States as soon as next Tuesday, according to an NPR report.

With U.S.-China relations at their worst in decades, Washington is pressing governments around the world to squeeze Huawei out, arguing it would hand over data to the Chinese government for spying. Huawei denies it spies for China.

The Hong Kong government called the sanctions "shameless and despicable" and said the city would not be intimidated by them.

Government officials in Rugao, China, used the coronavirus pandemic to conduct a takeover of an American-owned car company

Beijing's state-of-the-art surveillance cameras, monitoring every millimeter; facial recognition algorithms and images captured on CCTV are just the beginning.

Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., wrote to the commissioner of the NBA on Thursday, demanding answers over the organization’s relationship to a basketball training camp in the Xinjiang region in China -- and accusing the organization of having misled lawmakers.

China's foreign ministry on Friday condemned President Trump's executive order banning TikTok from the U.S.

TikTok said Friday is it "shocked" by the president's executive order to ban the app and threatened legal action.

The group suggested the SEC enhance listing standards on U.S. exchanges.

Ohio voters will vote for President Trump over “China-friendly” presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, said a lifelong Democrat who converted to the Republican Party in the 2016 presidential election.

Rep. Jim Banks raised concerns about the CIO in February.

Australia will spend A$1.66 billion ($1.19 billion) over the next 10 years to strengthen the cyber defenses of private companies and households following a rise in cyber attacks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison will announce on Thursday.