China

China’s banks should brace for a big jump in bad loans due to coronavirus-induced economic pain, the financial regulator said on Saturday, noting the deterioration of asset quality at some small and mid-sized financial institutions was accelerating.

Amazon mistakenly sent an email to employees Friday asking them to delete TikTok off their phones due to "security concerns."

Apple supplier Foxconn said it plans to invest up to $1 billion in India.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his not currently thinking about negotiating a “Phase 2” trade deal with China as relations between Washington and Beijing sour over the coronavirus pandemic and other issues.

Video game celebrity Tyler "Ninja" Blevins said Thursday that he is quitting TikTok over security concerns.

The idea has been floated by some advisers to President Trump as a way to punish Beijing for passing a Hong Kong national security law that circumvented the “One Country, Two Systems” governing principle agreed to as part of the 1998 handover by Great Britain.

The rule, which was prompted by a 2019 law, could have far-ranging implications for companies that sell goods and services to the U.S. government since they will now need to certify they do not use products from Dahua or Hikvision.

ByteDance Ltd is considering changing the corporate structure of its popular short-video app TikTok, as it comes under increasing scrutiny in its biggest markets over its Chinese ties.

The search engine giant, however, said that the project’s shutdown was not due to either of those two reasons and that it has not offered cloud platform services in China.

The producer price index (PPI) in June fell 3.0% from a year earlier

Along with the coronavirus, the Chinese are facing pressure over fraudulent companies listed on US exchanges and the SEC seeks answers.

TikTok is owned by Beijing-based technology company ByteDance, which was founded by Chinese billionaire Zhang Yiming in 2012.

WeChat, which boasts 1 billion users, is also known as Weixin, which means "micro message." Tencent is the Chinese tech company that runs WeChat.

The Trump administration is considering restricting U.S. users' access to the Chinese app TikTok.

"It's something we're looking at," said Pompeo

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro warned that China's day of reckoning for its alleged role in the coronavirus pandemic is coming soon. 

Facebook and Twitter have announced they will pause all information and data requests from Hong Kong authorities over its controversial national security law imposed by the Chinese government. 

While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, other infectious threats remain, with local health authorities announcing a suspected bubonic plague case in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

U.S. tech companies will be forced into a high-wire act if authorities here ask them to delete user accounts or their content. Refusal could invite Beijing’s scrutiny and cooperation may spur customer rejection.

The FCC has blacklisted Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.