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"Trump Is Wrong About #TikTok, China’s Plans Are Much More Sinister; The West still doesn’t understand the scale of Beijing’s #SoftPower ambitions"
New York Times #17Sept2020
//The danger posed by TikTok is real: In fact, it is only a stand-in for far greater risks...
- The tech giant Huawei — which the U.S. government blacklisted last year, calling it a threat to America’s national security — is another company with close connections to China
- Zoom, the U.S.-based teleconferencing service provider established by a billionaire Chinese immigrant... uses software partially developed in China
- the Confucius Institutes [are] also an instrument of Beijing’s propaganda and pressure tactics
- A Chinese company now has a 99-year lease over the port of Darwin in northern Australia — next to an Australian naval base that hosts U.S. Navy warships.//
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/tiktok-china-strategy.html
New York Times #17Sept2020
//The danger posed by TikTok is real: In fact, it is only a stand-in for far greater risks...
- The tech giant Huawei — which the U.S. government blacklisted last year, calling it a threat to America’s national security — is another company with close connections to China
- Zoom, the U.S.-based teleconferencing service provider established by a billionaire Chinese immigrant... uses software partially developed in China
- the Confucius Institutes [are] also an instrument of Beijing’s propaganda and pressure tactics
- A Chinese company now has a 99-year lease over the port of Darwin in northern Australia — next to an Australian naval base that hosts U.S. Navy warships.//
Read More Examples In:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/tiktok-china-strategy.html