China

China’s Big Tech firms sign ‘self-discipline’ pledge

An assemblage of China’s biggest tech companies has cooperatively signed on Tuesday an antitrust ‘self-discipline’ agreement with Beijing’s expanding regulatory pressure on Chinese tech firms. E-commerce platform Alibaba Group, Tencent, and TikTok’s parent company ByteDance are amongst 33 Chinese tech companies that have voluntarily signed an agreement of self-discipline amidst Beijing’s regulation rise on Big Tech companies.  Some of China’s biggest and most dominant tech […]

U.S. sanctions Chinese firms over human rights abuses against Uyghur

The U.S. Department of Commerce sanctioned on Monday 14 Chinese tech companies over links to human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, northwest China. Adding these firms to the Entity List restricts American companies from collaborating with any of the listed businesses without a special license. Among the listed companies is DeepGlint, a Chinese […]