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...Foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Thursday that the US had shown a “robber’s logic” towards the app....
...Beijing’s commerce ministry said last year it would “firmly oppose” a forced sale by ByteDance....
...US officials have long feared Beijing could subvert the app to spy on, or spread propaganda or misinformation to, its 170mn American users....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 24, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The $17bn factory is intended to help boost production of advanced logic chips used in smartphones, high-performance computing and for artificial intelligence....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 7, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...The report contains a large number of errors with unclear logic, confusing data, and sweeping generalizations.”...
...“The logic for Beijing is: ‘If I don’t understand you and can’t control you, I won’t let you grow’.”...
...JFrog and Sumo Logic are two smaller cloud companies announcing IPO plans....
...I press him repeatedly, but he refuses to say how writing could save the world now, as if being too explicit about one’s dreams would cause them to disappear, following the logic of his magical novels....
...The new tariff threat comes despite an intense lobbying effort from corporate America to convince the White House to avoid escalating the trade war with Beijing....
...Beijing is cutting subsidies on electric vehicles in hopes of turning the strongest companies into sustainable businesses....
...“The crude logic would be ‘you hit ZTE so we’ll hit Qualcomm’,” said Andrew Gilholm of consultancy Control Risks....
...Beijing has in turn sought to broaden its oversight of acquisitions....
...Lawyers blame a rise in trade tensions between Washington and Beijing, and a slowdown in Cfius’ review process, caused largely by under-staffing....
...Additional reporting by Sherry Fei Ju in Beijing...
...There would be logic to a deal in which the airlines created a common network. Competition for Chinese travellers has been intensifying....
...Bankers and analysts say Beijing is targeting deals that lack clear commercial or strategic logic....
...Additional reporting by Amy Kazmin in New Delhi and Christian Shepherd in Beijing...
...The same logic underlies aggressive bidding by mainland property developers at Hong Kong land auctions....
...Chinese and Indian multinationals have also borrowed western rivals’ original logic by themselves investing in R&D centres abroad....
...Since OBOR has become such a central preoccupation of Beijing, there will undoubtedly be more to come....
...Today, that logic has been turned on its head as China’s economy is increasingly consumption rather than export driven....
...Tesla is excluded from China’s electric vehicle subsidies, and not technically considered an “electric vehicle” in Beijing....
...Within the past few months it has become impossible to hail a taxi at rush hour in Beijing....
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