SHANGHAI (BUSINESS WIRE) $china #AboutCIIE China was in 2019 ranked third in the world, behind the United States and Singapore, in terms of digital economy competitiveness, according to a recent report by the Shanghai Academy of Social Science.The rise of digital technologies in China has accelerated the deep int.
Thomas Zimmerman, who will serve as a Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel under Joe Biden, formerly served as a visiting scholar at what the FBI has called a “front group for Chinese intelligence collection and overseas spy recruitment,” The National Pulse can reveal.
While at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, Zimmerman also served as a fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, flagged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for its close ties to the Chinese Communist Party’s top spy agency, the Ministry of State Security.
The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS), which the FBI views as a “front group for Chinese intelligence collection and overseas spy recruitment,” was involved in a 2019 criminal case involving a retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative selling classified U.S. defense documents to China.
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TikTok, a global music and video platform created in 2016 by Chinese internet technology company ByteDance, is known in China as Douyin. Photo: VCG
Chinese short video platform Douyin, owned by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, has been fined the maximum amount by regulators for spreading obscene, pornographic and vulgar content. The platform could also be subjected to tightened regulations over its algorithms-driven business model, after a Chinese consumer group sent a stern warning to internet platforms on how they have been abusing their algorithms to bully consumers.
Some users have sexual provocations, sexual suggestions, and smoking in their live broadcasts in Douyin, and the comment barrage in some live broadcast rooms contains vulgar content, the office for pornographic and vulgar content censorship said on Friday.
China took the third place globally in terms of digital economy competitiveness in 2019, following the US and Singapore. South Korea, UK, Japan, Finland, Sweden, Australia and the Netherlands ranked forth to tenth, respectively, according to an annual report by the Shanghai Academy of Social Science released on Tuesday.