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Nothing has challenged Silicon Valley like the Chinese app. Blocking its use in the US would be like stealing half the books in a library
How many times in your life can you say that one of the culture-defining platforms of your era is being forcibly removed? This is what will happen to the of American adults who use TikTok – and the other two-thirds whose lives have been undoubtedly affected by it – if the US supreme court upholds its , as it is expected to do on 19 January, in the interests of national security.
I have spent the last few years researching instances of linguicide, where authoritarian regimes have burned dictionaries, or sent people to prison just for singing a song. I see alarming parallels with the dismantling of TikTok in the US; a ruthless cull of a communication tool that challenges Silicon Valley hegemony and gave the US a serving of what it is allegedly supposed to prize: healthy, full-fat competition.
Sophia Smith Galer is a journalist, content creator and the author of

Outgoing president signs executive order to tackle US vulnerabilities after attacks that have cost country billions
The Biden administration is making a final push to fortify America’s cyber defenses against mounting threats from China and Russia, issuing a sweeping cybersecurity executive order just days before leaving office that aims to tackle vulnerabilities from outer space to consumer electronics.
The wide-ranging directive is likely to be the administration’s last big policy push before handing the keys over to Donald Trump, who heads to the White House next week and inherits a new world of cyber-attacks that have cost the nation billions of dollars and punctured government offices.

Phone Eats First As Westerners flock to RedNote ahead of a looming "TikTok ban", the first mass digital [trying to say 'this is a huge occasion' but not liking anything so far] Sino-American cultural exchange is off to the races — and taking some interesting turns.

Phone Eats First As Westerners flock to RedNote ahead of a looming "TikTok ban", the first mass digital [trying to say 'this is a huge occasion' but not liking anything so far] Sino-American cultural ...

With the U.S. ban on TikTok looming, many Americans are opting for another Chinese app known as RedNote. It could be short-lived.

Police are checking on safety at schools and visiting karaoke bars and rental homes to root out perceived malcontents, after several mass killings alarmed the public.

The show, which sends couples contemplating divorce away on a weeks-long roadtrip, has struck a chord and ignited debate on relationship norms
The premise of See You Again, a Chinese online reality television series that sends three married couples contemplating divorce away on an 18-day roadtrip, is designed to contrive an emotional spectacle. It is still raw viewing when it delivers.
The show’s key dynamics are universal: power games, family dramas, division of assets; the empty loss as love devolves into hate. In one scene, the husband breaks down sobbing while behind the steering wheel, during a heated discussion with his wife about custody of their son and daughter.

The brief abduction of a Chinese actor who was trafficked into Myanmar to work in a scam camp has rattled travelers from a country that Thailand relies on for tourism.

Two Chinese citizens are standing trial in New York for charges related to the illicit fentanyl trade in a landmark case as officials aim to crack down on the movement of the deadly drug and its components from China to the United States.

Emma Reynolds, who replaces Tulip Siddiq, pressed government over foreign influence rules while at lobbyist
No 10 has been accused of having a “revolving door” after it refused to say whether the new Treasury minister Emma Reynolds would recuse herself from policy on China after she lobbied the government on the issue.
Reynolds, who worked as managing director for TheCityUK, a lobby group for banks and other financial services companies, had previously pressed the government to make China exempt from the strictest tier of rules on registration of foreign influence.

Secretary of state nominee defends Trump’s foreign policy vision and his own hawkish record in Senate hearing
said that both Russia and Ukraine will have to make “concessions” in order to reach the peace deal promised by Donald Trump as he offered a full-throated defense of the president-elect’s vision for America’s role around the world – and his own hawkish record on foreign policy.
Rubio, Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, told the Senate foreign relations committee that the war in Ukraine had become a “stalemate” and “has to end”; that the US should show China that it would pay “too high” a price for invading Taiwan; and that European countries have to stop treating US support for Nato as an “excuse to … spend on domestic needs”.

Bassist and composer Mark Izu, a pivotal figure in San Francisco’s Asian American arts scene since the 1970s, has died, leaving a vast, influential body of cross-cultural creations encompassing jazz,