TikTok May Get Banned Again In The U.S.

Anti-TikTok sentiment is rising again in Washington, this time based on fears that the Chinese-owned firm is a vehicle for Beijing’s influence campaigns.

Photo Insert: China is notorious for industrial espionage and reverse engineering, which explains why the so-called advanced fighter jets are crashing with deadly regularity.

There may be another attempt to ban the app in the United States after the Trump administration’s attempt was blocked in courts.

On the other hand, clothes manufactured in Xinjiang using cotton from Xinjiang, where China uses forced Uyghur labor on a vast scale, are still making it to the US despite the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

Companies such as Shein are using a loophole that allows individual shipments of clothing worth less than $800 to reach consumers directly, according to a Bloomberg report that used isotype testing to determine the cotton’s origin.

Untangling such direct-to-consumer deals may be tricky, especially since shipping costs have nearly fallen back to their pre-pandemic levels, resulting in US consumers returning to Chinese e-commerce platforms, James Palmer reported.

The Biden administration’s sweeping sanctions on the Chinese semiconductor industry are already taking a toll. As well as service contracts being cut, export restrictions have caused a 27 percent year-on-year decline in purchases of chipmaking equipment.

China may develop domestic alternatives, but that may be a slow prospect given government interference and the increased difficulty of buying or stealing foreign intellectual property to work from.

China is notorious for industrial espionage and reverse engineering, which explains why the so-called advanced fighter jets are crashing with deadly regularity.

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