Sources: China's Salt Typhoon accessed the emails of staff on powerful US House committees, detected last December, and intercepted senior US officials' calls
Beijing's intelligence used Salt Typhoon to access communications used by top panels in US Congress
China says the NSA has been hacking its National Time Service Center, which provides high precision time services for the government and others, since 2023
China said it's uncovered “irrefutable evidence” of US government cyber attacks on the country's main agency responsible for timekeeping.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US aims to get “maybe 50% market share” of chip and wafer production to offset Beijing's threats to invade Taiwan
Washington is demanding Taiwan move investment and chip production to the US so half of American demand is manufactured locally …
Sources: China plans to force companies to obtain a license before releasing generative AI models, tightening draft rules from April 2023 to control content
Qianer Liu / Financial Times :
Analysis: in an information campaign on Twitter, Chinese officials and state media widely mocked a US TikTok ban, showing Beijing's investment in TikTok's fate
Chinese gamers lost access to Blizzard's games on January 23 when servers in the country shut down, after Blizzard's 14-year NetEase partnership ended
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Chinese gamers lost access to Blizzard's games on January 23 when servers in the country shut down, after Blizzard's 14-year NetEase partnership ended
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
China files a trade dispute at the WTO against the US over its chip export controls, arguing the curbs threaten the stability of global industrial supply chains
China has launched a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization against the United States over its chip export control measures, China's commerce ministry said.
Email: Twitter dissolves its Trust and Safety Council, saying it isn't “the best structure” for “external insights into our product and policy development work”
Meanwhile, a former top Twitter official fled his home amid attacks following Musk tweets
Sony AI CEO Hiroaki Kitano and NEC CEO Takayuki Morita say US sanctions may impact China's ability to procure chips but question their long-term effectiveness
Sony's CTO and NEC's CEO say US chip export controls may temporarily impact China's ability to procure chips but question the sanctions' long-term effectiveness
Eri Sugiura / Financial Times : Tweets: @jtseo9 , @williamyang120 , @rnaudbertrand , @sroach_econ , and @sariarhohavren Tweets: @jtseo9 : In plain English, “shoveling shit against...
Chinese state media: a five-day COVID-19 lockdown in Zhengzhou, home to Foxconn's iPhone plant, has been lifted; an analyst says disruptions cost Apple $1B/week
Hong Kong CNN Business — The central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, home to the world's largest iPhone factory …
Foxconn offers ~$1,400 payouts to newly recruited Chinese workers who opt to leave its iPhone factory, aiming to quell unrest after violent clashes with police
Apple supplier apologises for ‘technical error’ after violent clashes between workers and police
Sources: hundreds of Foxconn workers at the iPhone plant in Zhengzhou clashed with security guards as protests erupted over unpaid wages and COVID-19 fears
Hundreds of workers at Apple Inc.'s main iPhone-making plant in China clashed with security personnel, as tensions boiled over after almost …
Sources: hundreds of Foxconn workers at the iPhone plant in Zhengzhou clashed with security guards as protests erupted over unpaid wages and COVID-19 fears
Hundreds of workers at Apple Inc.'s main iPhone-making plant in China clashed with security personnel, as tensions boiled over after almost …
TikTok plans to update its privacy policy on December 2 to confirm that its staff outside of Europe, including in China, can access the data of European users
Privacy policy update confirms data of continent's users available to range of TikTok bases including in Brazil, Israel and US
Report: US state and local governments kept buying Chinese telecom equipment despite a federal-level ban; only five states have rules to limit such purchases
Despite federal efforts to block Chinese telecom equipment from U.S. supply chains, state and local governments across …
The Biden administration issues sweeping rules that significantly expand the limits on exports to China of chips and tools to make advanced chips and other tech
The U.S. unveiled a set of new regulations Friday that aim to choke off China's access to advanced chips …
The Biden administration adds 31 Chinese companies and institutions including YMTC to an “unverified list”, limiting their ability to get some regulated US tech
beginning with Bush1 and Bill Clinton, ended by Trump and Biden—to fuel China's rise in the hopes that if China got rich China would become more like us—was doomed from the start. ...
Bloomberg Intelligence: Apple moving just 10% of its production capacity out of China, where ~98% of iPhones are made, would take around eight years
Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks Covid-19's impact on trade. Sign up here, and — American companies have had a growing list …