Tencent-Owned WeChat Adds In-App Support for China’s CBDC, Here’s Why

Tencent-Owned WeChat Adds In-App Support for China’s CBDC, Here’s Why

WeChat has added in-app support for China’s e-CNY CBDC in order to get more nationals to use the digital currency. Owned by tech giant Tencent, WeChat is China’s equivalent to WhatsApp, offering an array of social networking mediums as well as a bank-to-bank payment option. As per statistics tracker Oberio,…

New Bill Could Ban TikTok, Other Foreign Technology Products in US Over Data Collection Concerns

New Bill Could Ban TikTok, Other Foreign Technology Products in US Over Data Collection Concerns

Two US senators plan to introduce legislation this week aimed at letting the government “ban or prohibit” foreign technology products such as Chinese-owned TikTok, Senator Mark Warner said on Sunday. Warner, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said TikTok would be “one of the potentials” for review under the bill….

Dr. Anthony Fauci emerges from home, keeps quiet after latest COVID lab leak report
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Dr. Anthony Fauci emerges from home, keeps quiet after latest COVID lab leak report

What’s up, doc? Former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci emerged from his home Monday, one day after a bombshell report revealed that the Energy Department has concluded that COVID-19 likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. Fauci, who retired after more than five decades as a federal employee…

Dozens of demonstrators protest NYC Chinese police station
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Dozens of demonstrators protest NYC Chinese police station

Dozens of demonstrators protested outside a Chinatown building housing a foreign police station accused of harassing and spying on Chinese nationals in the city. More than 60 protestors gathered Saturday morning outside 107 East Broadway where the ChangLe Association Inc, a non-profit, owns and operates a “service station” above a…

Xiaomi Civi 3 Tipped To Feature MediaTek Dimensity 8200 SoC, Improved 50-Megapixel Camera: Details

Xiaomi Civi 3 Tipped To Feature MediaTek Dimensity 8200 SoC, Improved 50-Megapixel Camera: Details

Xiaomi Civi 2 was launched in September last year featuring a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 SoC, and a 50-megapixel Sony IMX766 main sensor. Civi-branded smartphones from Xiaomi have been headlined by their camera and image quality, with a special focus on front-facing cameras for vlogging. The Chinese smartphone manufacturer…

Biden refuses for 5th day to discuss ‘benign’ UFOs shootdown
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Biden refuses for 5th day to discuss ‘benign’ UFOs shootdown

WASHINGTON — President Biden went a fifth consecutive day Wednesday without discussing his unprecedented decision to order the shootdown of three unidentified objects over North American airspace — one day after his official flack praised him as “the best communicator that we have in the White House.” Biden, 80, took…

US military recovers electronic sensors from downed Chinese spy balloon
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US military recovers electronic sensors from downed Chinese spy balloon

The US military recovered the electronic mechanism and key sensors — believed to be used for intelligence gathering — from the Chinese spy balloon shot down earlier this month, officials announced Monday. “Crews have been able to recover significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor and…

ChatGPT Frenzy Takes Over China as Firms Rush to Integrate AI Chatbot Technology Into Products

ChatGPT Frenzy Takes Over China as Firms Rush to Integrate AI Chatbot Technology Into Products

Microsoft-backed OpenAI has kept its hit ChatGPT app off-limits to users in China, but the app is attracting huge interest in the country, with firms rushing to integrate the technology into their products and launch rival solutions. While residents in the country are unable to create OpenAI accounts to access…

Disney pulls ‘The Simpsons’ episode calling out China’s ‘forced labor camps’
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Disney pulls ‘The Simpsons’ episode calling out China’s ‘forced labor camps’

Disney has pulled an episode of “The Simpsons” that features criticism of China from its streaming platform in Hong Kong. The episode, titled “One Angry Lisa,” first aired in October last year and shows Marge Simpson taking a spin class as a screen displays images of the Great Wall of…

House Foreign Affairs big agrees US likely headed for war with China
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House Foreign Affairs big agrees US likely headed for war with China

The head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Sunday reluctantly agreed with an Air Force general’s prediction that the United States would go to war with China in 2025 over Taiwan. House Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” weighed in on four-star Gen. Mike Minihan’s grim…