10/26/2022

CHINA/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner this week praised former President Donald Trump’s strong stand against TikTok’s ties to communist China. Warner, D-Va., told an Australian newspaper Tuesday during a visit to the country that TikTok posed privacy and national security concerns to the American public. ‘This is not something you would normally […]

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8/24/2020

CHINA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP ADMIN: “TikTok, the video-sharing application owned by China-based ByteDance, filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. government challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to ban the company’s American operations… The Trump administration has expressed concern about U.S. data security and data privacy with several Chinese companies, including Huawei and WeChat. ByteDance argued that is […]

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8/17/2020

TECHNOLOGY: “Yes, we don’t want their [Huawei] equipment in the United States because they spy on us, and any country that uses it, we’re not going to do anything in terms of sharing intelligence. Absolutely, Huawei is a disaster. They used to have free reign over our country. They know everything — they knew everything […]

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8/13/2020

CHINA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY: “TikTok, I broke the deal. I said you can’t do business in the United States. I also said to Huawei you can’t do business in the United States. And I told our so-called allies, that are all over the world, all of which, you know, for the most take advantage of us. We […]

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8/5/2020

CHINA/TECHNOLOGY: “China has done a big number on us for many, many years. I’ve taken in billions and billions of dollars from China… We’re not allowing Huawei, that’s the big phone company, and we also got a lot of our allies. I said, if you do it that’s OK, but we’re not going to be […]

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8/4/2020

BUSINESS/CHINA/TECHNOLOGY: “You know Huawei. I have stopped Huawei from coming into this country… In fact, we’re actually taking down equipment where they have Huawei equipment, bought years and years ago, long before my time. And we’re actually taking it down off the top of towers and things all over the country. No, I turn it. […]

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7/14/2020

CHINA/TARIFFS/TECHNOLOGY/UK: “No administration has been tougher on China than this administration. We imposed historic tariffs. We stood up to China’s intellectual property theft, at a level that nobody has ever come close. We confronted untrustworthy Chinese technology and telecom providers. We convinced many countries — many countries — and I did this myself, for the […]

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