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Beijing (AFP) - Apple has removed Meta's WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China on orders from the country's internet regulator, US media reported Friday. Mainland China has some of the world's most extensive internet censorship, with web users unable to access everything from Google to many foreign apps without workarounds such as a virtual private network (VPN). "We are obligated to follow the laws in the countries where we operate, even when we disagree," Apple said in a statement, according to Bloomberg. "The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) ordered the removal of these a...
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Pittsburgh (AFP) - US President Joe Biden called Wednesday for a hike in steel tariffs on China, accusing it of cheating as he courted blue-collar voters on an election campaign trip to the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Biden accused Beijing of xenophobia too in a speech to union members in Pittsburgh that also sought to contrast his defense of workers' rights with the record of his rival Donald Trump. "They're not competing, they're cheating. They're cheating and we've seen the damage here in America," the 81-year-old Biden said to cheers at the headquarters of the United Steelworkers ...
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Pittsburgh (AFP) - US President Joe Biden called for a hike in steel tariffs on "cheating" China Wednesday as he courted blue-collar voters on an election campaign trip to the battleground state of Pennsylvania. "I stand by you, the American steel worker," Biden said to cheers as he unveiled the latest in a series of protectionist measures in a speech to the United Steelworkers union in Pittsburgh. Democrat Biden was on the second day of a three-day swing through Pennsylvania as he competes with Republican rival Donald Trump for working- and middle-class votes ahead of November's election. Bi...
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Beijing (AFP) - China vowed Wednesday it would not accept "criticism or pressure" over its ties with Russia, after Washington warned that it will hold Beijing responsible if Moscow makes gains in Ukraine. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said Tuesday that Washington would "not sit by and say everything is fine" after Beijing renewed pledges of cooperation with Moscow during a visit by Russia's top diplomat. In response, foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning insisted that "China and Russia have the right to engage in normal economic and trade cooperation". "This kind of cooperation shou...
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Beijing (AFP) - From her down-to-earth demeanour to chopstick skills, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has been under scrutiny on her China visit, where she delivered a serious message -- a call to action to avoid the pitfalls of excess factory capacity. Washington and others are worried that overcapacity, fuelled by Chinese government support, could unleash a surge of Chinese exports at artificially low prices, disadvantaging firms elsewhere in new industries like electric vehicles and solar energy. But Beijing has pushed back against such warnings, with a minister calling them "groundless"...
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Beijing (AFP) - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Chinese Premier Li Qiang sounded a hopeful tone on US-China cooperation on Sunday, though the American policymaker noted both sides cannot shy away from tough conversations. The US-China relationship can only move forward with direct and open communication, Yellen told Li, after arriving in the Chinese capital from the southern city of Guangzhou. "China sincerely hopes that the two countries will be partners, not adversaries," Li said in welcoming remarks to Yellen. He added that Chinese internet users have closely followed the details of ...
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Guangzhou (AFP) - The United States and China have agreed to hold "intensive exchanges on balanced growth", the US Treasury Department said in a statement, after two days of talks between Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her Chinese counterpart He Lifeng in Guangzhou. The planned talks mark the latest step forward in joint efforts to stabilise rocky ties between the world's two leading economies since a meeting between presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping last November. "These exchanges will facilitate a discussion around macroeconomic imbalances, including their connection to overcapacity, ...
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Manila (AFP) - The United States, Australia, Japan and the Philippines will hold joint naval and air drills in the disputed South China Sea on Sunday, their defence chiefs said in a statement, as they deepen ties to counter China's growing assertiveness in the region. The exercise will take place in the disputed waterway -- which Beijing claims almost entirely -- days before US President Joe Biden is due to hold the first trilateral summit with the leaders of the Philippines and Japan. "Our combined defense/armed forces will conduct a Maritime Cooperative Activity within the Philippine Exclusi...
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Guangzhou (AFP) - US Treasury chief Janet Yellen warned during a visit to China on Friday that Beijing's subsidies for industry could pose a risk to global economic resilience. Yellen arrived in the southern city of Guangzhou on Thursday for several days of talks with Chinese officials on her second visit to the world's second-largest economy in less than a year. She expressed concerns about China's "overcapacity" undercutting American and other countries' companies. Such overcapacity is seen as a result of huge Chinese subsidies to industries, such as solar, electric vehicles and batteries, ...
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Anchorage (AFP) - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen headed to China on Wednesday for her second visit in under a year, hoping to further stabilize ties while raising concerns about spillover effects from Beijing's "massive investments" in certain industries. The trip from April 3-9 begins in the major southern city of Guangzhou, where she will speak with representatives of US firms and hold meetings with Chinese officials, including Vice Premier He Lifeng and Guangdong province governor Wang Weizhong. Yellen will then head to Beijing for talks with Premier Li Qiang, Finance Minister Lan Fo'an...
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