Ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s much-anticipated testimony in the United States House of Representatives today, the embattled tech firm conducted a full-court press on Capitol Hill. This included paying to bring TikTok influencers face-to-face with their home state lawmakers, staffers, and journalists, as well as sharing their journey with their collective audience of some 60 million followers. TikTok …
Spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office Zhu Fenglian gestures at a regular press conference in Beijing, Sept 14, 2022. BEIJING -- A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Friday reiterated that there is no obstacle on the mainland side to travel between Fujian province's coastal areas and Kinmen and Matsu, urging Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party authorities to remove their unilateral …
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The Netherlands currently does not see any reason to remove embassy staff from Ukraine, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The Dutch embassy is located in Kyiv, 150 kilometers south of its northern border with Belarus and around 240 kilometers away from the Russian border. The US State Department has urged relatives of embassy employees to leave …