taiwan's future may be green if it can kick its addiction to coal and nuclear power . welcome to do business asia i'm stephen beard's in berlin thanks for watching. us class action lawsuit claims that chinese video sharing app tick-tock secretly transferred vast amounts of user data to chinese servers the lawsuit filed in california accuses tech talk of collecting the information without user content consent rather saying it could be used to identify profile and track customers click talk has become hugely popular with teenagers since it launched 2 years ago last month to hit 1500000000 downloads that's already more than instagram. and for more on this let's bring in rob watts he's been looking into this rob 1st off remind us again what is tick tock tick tock is the international version of a chinese quote dollar yen and it's a simple concept uses post 15 2nd video up to 15 2nd videos much like you'd post

a tweet on twitter or a photo on instagram but they tend to be sort of quickie videos like sinking along to a song or a comics or something that uses some funky sort of editing to make something a little bit otti and you mention there are some really big numbers involved with this already around the world it's got hoth a 1000000000 uses most of them ah in that teens or the early twenty's or early throes of a quick time it sounds like oh yeah it's as you mentioned any a couple of years but the uptake is strong and these young uses are constantly uploading that data to it and now it seems or at least there is this accusation that some of that data is finding its way to china ok so why why would that matter i guess if it's going to china i mean so many social media sites of course are collecting data in the u.s. why should we care about this well the thing is chinese social media websites. require it's to allow beijing to access that data so if it's being stored in china

it means it falls under the purview now what you might ask is well what what would china want with the states and now we can't. speak from inside the chinese government but we can discuss perhaps you know why they might want that i mean for example that data can be used these enormous data sets to try and target advertising to target specific messages that perhaps promotes the chinese government's there also is the possibility that you could scam that days of people who are critical of the chinese government so the concern here is that china would have access to that data versus a facebook or google which already has access to massive amounts of our data yeah exactly that because you've got a state hacked a state actor that could potentially be a hostile state tax so when you're dealing with the data of overseas citizens this isn't the 1st time the tick-tock has been in the spotlight at least in the last few weeks i believe no i mean we've been talking about the context of us this is a particularly controversial issue that i mean the u.s. congress back in october asked tick-tock to clarify suggestions that it was somehow

in the thrall of the beijing government and that it had been deleting accounts and deleting videos that were critical of beijing is there any truth to the well denies that it says it's never been asked by beijing to take anything down and if it was asked it wouldn't do it but last week we did have this example that hit the news 117 year old user name was pharoahs as ease and she posted a series of videos that looks like make up tutorials but in fact highly critical of beijing's treatment of week of muslims in jang her account got deleted now to attack his tactic talk has said that that was a mistake and it was down to human error but it doesn't look good when they're fighting those accusations all right we'll keep an eye on it rob watch thanks for talking with us about those drug. china the tariff wars continue with no

end in sight just a few weeks ago markets were celebrating what appeared to be an end to the trade conflict between the u.s. and china but trump has changed his tune now the u.s. president is saying that he's in fact in no rush to get rid of those tariffs. if the end had been inside doesn't appear to be any more for weeks speculation that the world's 2 biggest economies could be close to a trade deal had kept investors calm and then came the news that the u.s. president donald trump wasn't counting on a pocket until after the 2020 election comments that sent markets into a tailspin and left his commerce secretary grappling to explain who said there's a possibility that close in to have her and i think the point he was trying to make is we need a proper deal. comes this. or it's next to. the

proper deal details about the stumbling blocks are scanty but intellectual property trade in agricultural products and the role of chinese tech equipment giant huawei have all been enduring themes. there is out there geo political tension after washington pos legislation seeking sanctions in relation to beijing's crackdown on the weaker minority in jinja you may. if the united states takes actions that undermine china's interests do you think that we'll just let it be and do nothing anyone who makes a wrong move must pay a price. but analysts say the price of an engineering trade conflict between the united states and china could be too much for the global economy to bear. over europe now where the head of one of germany's most powerful lobbying groups the german association of the automotive industry says that the sector must become more. competitive and faster on its feet if it's to survive

a difficult moment bernhard mata said in a year and press conference that sales and employment in the german car industry will continue to fall in 2020 he said slowing global sales massive technology change in a turbulent trade environment we're all rocking the sector. and i had a chance to talk to madison after the event and i asked him if the auto industry faced an existential challenge. no it's an existential. challenge and it's different to what we have seen in the past when we invented new innovations and board to market now it's really a structural change in the whole industry and all 3 challenges together at the same time and that makes it really a big management challenge and we are facing that and we are going to make it looking at those challenges this of course requires a lot of investment and a lot of risk you've asked the government for a lot of help managing that risk does your industry right now have the kind of

weight that it needs to go to berlin and ask for those things given the kind of skepticism that it faces due to environmental concerns growing environmental concerns and of course the lingering effects of the diesel scandal. we are together when it comes to fulfilling what we have said is objectives for $10.00 to $30.00 when it comes to c o 2 reductions and the politicians as well as we work together on a plan how we can how we can achieve that and that means infrastructure when it comes to charging point that means how can we let me say make it more interesting for cunt customers to purchase their vehicle and what can we do and the politicians to to together to make that more interesting and we had a very good dialogue on that i want to ask you about tesla of course the german auto industry has always said that tesla may be in front in terms of the pioneering for each autos but it wants the weight in the scale the german auto industry was brought to bear that it would be able to mainstream eat autos but now tesla is

actually coming to berlin and it's been successful for almost a year already in terms of producing at mass volume does that mean the german auto industry is still playing catch up and will well coming any competitor because competition has always made us very strong globally and therefore if tesla comes to germany and becomes a competitor fine fine with us because as i said we are facing competition across the globe and we have always strong in this competition. all right now was my interview with ben hard not us president of the german association of the automotive industry from earlier today let's go over to taiwan where all 40 is there are stepping up efforts to clean up the energy sector c o 2 emissions are high at 10 tons per person per year significantly higher than the average of 7 tons here in europe our next report takes a look at how efforts to switch to a new balls are going down in the country. here in taiwan had a tricity is very cheap but most of it is still generated in coal and gas powered

plants that's despite the fact that the government offered subsidies for solar panels chan weeping is the co-creator of a green energy crowdfunding platform called sunny founder she was determined to make use of the state support for solar but there were challenges. the most difficult. place songs 0 to one because no one knows us and though i wonder if anyone will ever believe us all just us home even joining us. i thought with myself and i thought of to myself. if you don't actually you will have no answer weeping has championed a range of renewable energy projects here she is talking to residents in a long term care center where sunny founder had installed solar panels on the roof

the center receives renewable energy certificates for the green power it produces this is by far the largest. charity projects we have cough on date and this project his sponsor was sponsored by taiwan mobile company and come by and the donation for us was all over 39 in individual environmentalists say taiwan still needs to do a lot of work to improve its share of renewable energy there are plans to set up a number of offshore wind farms. but nuclear energy which accounts for about 15 percent of taiwan's electricity remains a contentious issue the government wants to phase it out although last year a majority of voters said they wanted to keep it in a referendum organized by this month. we operate nuclear week because it is putting in sites the high level waste that are going to. spend

for you is all story nuclear power fred inside the hall pour in there so it doesn't effect the people's living a wrong and you could have popped right communities living near the nuclear power plant receive subsidies officials don't appear. to be too concerned about the risk of earthquakes. and that's it from me and the business team you can of course find out more about these and other business stories online dot com slash business and to check us out on facebook and twitter i'm stephen there's a bullet always let's watch it.

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