Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet with his Chinese counterpart this week for the first time since China escalated military drills around Taiwan this summer.
U.S.-China tension has been at a high regarding Taiwan, which China has repeatedly threatened to take by force. Taiwan split from mainland China in 1949 after Democratic forces lost a civil war to the Chinese Communist Party and fled to the island.
U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 leaders' summit in Bali, Indonesia, November 14, 2022. "China’s vast hacking program is the world’s largest, and they have stolen more Americans’ personal and business data than every other nation combined," Wray told lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee.Wray went on to explain the dangers posed by TikTok, a massively popular video sharing app owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance.
While TikTok representatives have insisted that users' data are safe, executives for the company have admitted under oath that theThat access is used frequently as well, according to an extensive report from BuzzFeed earlier this year. The outlet obtained audio from more than 80 internal meetings at TikTok, showing that U.S. employees were not permitted to access user data and instead relied on Chinese employees to do so.
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