Microsoftâs Bing Briefly Blocked âTank Manâ on Tiananmen Anniversary
Users outside China said the site had failed to call up videos and images of the iconic figure from the 1989 crackdown.
The unknown person who blocked a column of tanks in Beijing after Chinaâs military crushed the Tiananmen Square protests has become known as the âtank man.âCredit.Jeff Widener/Associated Press
June 5, 2021, 6:54 a.m. ET
Microsoftâs Bing search engine briefly blocked images and videos of the famous âtank manâ of Tiananmen Square on Friday, the anniversary of Chinaâs massacre of pro-democracy protesters in 1989, in what the company said was an error.
US president Joe Biden has issued an executive order that bars US securities investment in 57 Chinese companies with defence ties, with airframer AVIC featuring prominently on the list.
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WASHINGTON The Biden administration is expanding a Trump-era order that banned U.S. investment in Chinese companies that it said support China s military to include those selling surveillance technology, calling the entities a threat to U.S. interests and values.
A new executive order Thursday broadens prohibitions that the Trump administration enacted and moves authority for the ban to the Treasury Department, from the Defense Department, to give it stronger legal grounding, senior administration officials said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the order before its release.
The new order prevents U.S. investment from supporting the Chinese defense sector, while also expanding the U.S. government s ability to address the threat of Chinese surveillance technology firms that contribute both inside and outside China to the surveillance of religious or ethnic minorities or otherwise facilitate repression and serious human rights abuses, the administra