U.S. Media Companies Are Inextricably Linked to China. Are Their Assets Anchors or Hostages? Variety 3 hrs ago
China is set to host the winter Olympics in February, but the extent of American involvement is on shaky ground. There’s plenty of precedent for Olympic-scale strife in 1980 and 1984, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. engaged in respective boycotts of each other’s Olympics but this Cold War is raising complicated questions for a new age.
With China’s repressive policies in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, contentious territorial claims in the South China Sea and global trade imbalances among the topics that grate, a U.S. boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics has been mooted (though the State Department denied any such undertaking earlier this week.)
Arabs talk taboos on Clubhouse app, but for how long?
An illustration photo taken on January 25, 2021 shows the application Clubhouse on a smartphone [ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images] April 7, 2021 at 2:35 pm
Audio chatroom app Clubhouse is on the rise in the Arab world, providing a rare platform for open debate on taboo subjects from so-called honour killings in Egypt to sexual identity in Iraq, but with some authorities restricting the use and others wary.
The app launched by a San Francisco-based company last year allows people to discuss varied topics in chatrooms, with its popularity surging after appearances by billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and its use now rising in the Middle East.
Arabs talk sex and taboos on Clubhouse app, but for how long? Reuters 2 hrs ago U.S. audio chatroom app proves popular in Middle East Clubhouse provides rare forum for open debate on taboo subjects Users, analysts wary of wider crackdown by governments
By Menna A. Farouk and Timour Azhari
CAIRO/BEIRUT, April 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Audio chatroom app Clubhouse is on the rise in the Arab world, providing a rare platform for open debate on taboo subjects from so-called honour killings in Egypt to sexual identity in Iraq, but with some authorities restricting use and others wary.
The app launched by a San Francisco-based company last year allows people to discuss varied topics in chatrooms, with its popularity surging after appearances by billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and its use now rising in the Middle East.
Hong Kong verdicts a badge of honor, says Lee Cheuk Yan
Seven veteran Hong Kong pro-democracy figures have been convicted of unlawful assembly during huge protests in 2019. One of the defendants, opposition politician Lee Cheuk Yan, said the convictions were a badge of honor to those marching for democracy and freedom. DW s Phoebe Kong spoke to him before the verdict.
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