Chinese companies going global. Global companies ongoing efforts to capitalize on the size and growth of the China market. State-owned enterprises. Policy-based state investment. Startup unicorns with Chinese characteristics. There is no shortage of business stories to tell in China.
After a few days of indecision, President Trump has settled on an ultimatum for TikTok: Either sell your U.S. operations to an American company in 45 days, or be banned. Microsoft is in negotiations to buy it, but there are many uncertainties.
In an apparent attempt to avoid further scrutiny in the U.S., Zoom is essentially pulling out of China, and will only offer its services there in partnership with local Chinese companies.
While the news about Microsoft's potential acquisition of TikTok was a huge relief for its American users, it was received poorly on the Chinese internet, with many calling Zhang Yiming, ByteDance’s founder and CEO, a “spineless traitor” and a “despicable coward,” among other insults.
The meaning of internet freedom is changing. Under Trump, the U.S. seems set to tell China it was right to distrust foreign-owned social media apps.
Once the world's biggest bike-sharing company, Ofo remains buried under lawsuits and debt.
Will Washington force Chinese internet giant ByteDance to sell its globally popular video app TikTok to a U.S. company?
Within days of U.S. Congress questioning American Big Tech companies in an antitrust probe, it looks like China may investigate its own tech giants for anticompetitive practices.
A broad swath of countries from Kenya to Pakistan to Laos has been dealing with huge swarms of locusts this summer. China is the latest victim.
A series of gargantuan energy sector deals has created a new state-owned giant that will control most of the oil and gas pipelines in China.
On the same day that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his company by saying it is “proudly American,” and that it competes against China’s “version of the internet,” TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer slammed Facebook for copycat products and for attacks that are “disguised as patriotism.”