A former Meta executive, Sarah Wynn-Williams, has come forward as a whistleblower, accusing the company of compromising US national security to establish a substantial business presence in China. According to Wynn-Williams, Meta executives made decisions that allowed the Chinese Communist Party to access user data, including that of Americans. This testimony was given during a…
China said this weekend it was prepared to respond to a “discriminatory” United States presidential order restricting Chinese investment in critical American technology and infrastructure. On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed an “America First Investment Policy” memorandum ordering the US to “use all necessary legal instruments” to block Chinese-affiliated investments in American “technology, critical infrastructure,…
The top Democrat on the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee said on Friday that Republicans in Congress were protecting Elon Musk’s Chinese investments by scrapping provisions restricting US investments. Representative Rosa DeLauro said in a letter that Musk, CEO of electric car maker Tesla, may have upended the government funding process to remove a provision…
The US announced on Monday it was adding six Chinese companies to an export blacklist for supporting the development of Iran’s weapons of mass destruction as well as the modernisation of China’s military. “We will continue to cut off entities that seek to evade our controls and act contrary to US national security,” said Thea…