Threat from Communist China

The partnership is a key component in the U.S. strategy to counter communist China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific.

The video app remains missing from Apple and Google’s app stores on Tuesday evening amid TikTok’s legal limbo.

TikTok still needs to comply with the divest-or-ban law, enacted in April last year and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 17.

Under Chinese law, TikTok’s key technologies, including its algorithm, are subject to export control.

‘Imagine a U.S. economy with zero manufacturing,’ warns former Trump official Nazak Nikakhtar, after China announced export control on industrial diamonds.

Prosecutors said the man played a role in Beijing’s extralegal campaign called ‘Operation Fox Hunt,’ which sought to pressure expatriates to return to China.

The incoming national security adviser said Trump’s looking for a deal that would save the app and ‘protect Americans’ data and protect them from influence.’

One labor union is calling on the incoming Trump administration to ‘implement strong remedies that level the playing field for American workers.’

The action is part of a U.S. operation to counter ‘increasingly reckless cyber activity’ from Beijing, Treasury officials said.

The White House says it will be on the Trump administration to implement the law that requires the app to be sold or banned.

The nation’s highest court has been considering the social media platform’s emergency request to halt a law compelling it to sever its Chinese ties.

America’s adversaries could use the equipment to improve their military capabilities and design new weapons, the Commerce Department said.

Apple still ranked first in the global smartphone market in 2024 with a market share of 18.7 percent, followed closely by Samsung at 18 percent.

Motorola said the guilty plea doesn’t resolve the company’s ongoing civil litigation against Hytera, which is partly owned by a local government in China.

Rubio described the Chinese regime as ’the most potent and dangerous, near-peer adversary' the United States has ever faced.

The import and sale of connected vehicles will be banned from US roads if they contain software or hardware linked to China or Russia.

Acting Deputy Commissioner Peter Flores said the proposal would help halt the shipment of illicit drugs and other counterfeit goods to American homes.

The Chinese regime is ’the defining threat of our generation,' Wray said.

ByteDance’s platform was added while Tencent’s WeChat was dropped from the ‘Notorious Markets’ list.

The proposed restrictions will ‘help ensure U.S. biotechnology does not fall into the hands’ of the Chinese regime, said lawmakers.