home home is is is is is is the perfect what i mean it's interesting that the chinese are bringing in a national security law and it sounds pretty harsh actually but the other day the president of the look ounce will in in this country in a straight said that actually the chinese national security law wasn't as far reaching as the neutral country and laws that have been brought in in this country a democracy what is going on in the world is a struggle for. freedom true freedom within democracies liberty has become privilege perhaps or always was but it certainly is now and the last the erosion of democracy is the big story but the big story that no one really wants to write in australia these draconian foreign interference laurels as i as i mentioned at least the equal of anything china can impose. in hong kong. in in the united states both the presidential and other executive. in positions in positions and we like this word these days that we some to muse about ourselves in positions of forms of it tell it totalitarianism. these are not a story trump is because he is reviled for all sorts of reasons only hi

chief executive says kerry lam is directly responsible for implementing a controversial chinese national security law which it called a policy of suppression of a range of other officials including the territories use chief of also been targeted the relationship between the u.s. and china already strained has been steadily deteriorating over hong kong's autonomy the corona virus and 2 recent executive orders against the popular apps to talk and we chat. because ruling party has secured a landslide win in parliamentary elections mending the power of the rajapaksa brothers the sri lanka people's front is led by gotta buy and mahinda rajapaksa is his president and prime minister along with their allies that secured a 2 thirds majority giving the president the power to make sweeping changes to the constitution head to head is coming up next with mehdi hasan and then more news after that in about 25 minutes time i will see that do stay with al-jazeera by for now. the. news. hello i'm at the house and welcome to this special edition of head to head on how the global pandemic has put china in the crosshairs

owner of one of the city's most prominent tabloids is facing charges under the chinese territories new national security law which the lives of prominent pro-democracy activist and was arrested during a crackdown on critics of beijing. levanon has marked one week since a massive explosion tore through its capital beirut on tuesday hundreds gathered on the city's streets in memory of the blast victims and in protest of the government's failure to prevent the disaster more than 170 people died and 6000 others were injured when a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate blew up at the city's port. was on the moon one week on beirut pause to reflect on the moment the toll of the city of pot. mom. they gathered amongst the ruins to mourn the loss of loved ones and strangest. the names of those killed were read aloud. a man your love of money and money it was a day of mixed emotions on very serious on rage on andriy our mood i was little girls. are here to favorite respects to those who love all the nice oftentimes guarino are not alone in feeling this way her hope for the hopefully their better there's a hope that a l

on charges including colluding with foreign forces it's a new offense under the chinese territories national security law it comes after around $200.00 police officers searched the news room of his tabloid which is. unapologetically critical of beijing. our correspondent phoebe kong in hong kong has been following this story all along jimmy and other activists are free again on bail does this mean that authorities there are no longer see them as a threat. well it's hard to state the current they should think correlation in this way but. we have to know that all of the arrestees were only are released on bail which means the investigation is still carrying on the case isn't over yet but it's like. the rest on monday this is wrong. and international pressure and attention that the u.s. secretary of state might might pay i think he was deeply troubled by jimmy lies about. the thought he didn't say that they will release them without any commission so the case is the investigator and there is the wisconsin official like for our team and i and other activists to be prosecuted. has. issued in a coma since bein

are expressing concerns hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie has been arrested on the chinese new national security law is company says he's being held on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers he has been detained along with 6 others linked to his pro-democracy apple daily newspaper they're accused of colluding with foreign forces. well as the headlines to stay with us the over the news continues here on al-jazeera right after inside story which is coming up next . president for a 6 about a russian leader claims a landslide victory the opposition call for a vote ring 1000 protesters are arrested is this a turning point for the country this is inside story. hello and welcome to the show i'm sami's day than his critics describe him as europe's last dictator alexander lukashenko is set to rule the roost for a 6th term he's already been president for 26 years official results from sunday's election say he won by a landslide but the opposition is rejecting that official result looking shanker as pre-election popularity fell because of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and worsening economy he fa

detained on charges including colluding with foreign forces it's a new offense on the chinese territories new national security law it comes after around $200.00 police officers searched the news room of his tabloid which is unapologetically critical of beijing. our correspondent phoebe kong in hong kong has been following this story all along and jimmy and other activists are free again on bail does this mean that authorities there are no longer see them as a threat. well it's not just a. correlation in this way but. we have to know that all of the rest well we are released on bail which means the investigation you know. the case isn't over yet but it's like that. 7 monday strong. internet no question and answer that the u.s. secretary of state's right michael. we are both by jimmy lines arrest but the authorities didn't say that they will release them without any conditions so the case is there and they're investigated and there is the u.s. hans an official like for our chairman and other activists to be prosecuted. because jimmy law issued in a coma since being released. but you knew i was released last night a

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turned those protests violent this isn't just a national security law this is a law that is designed to oppress hong kong and to bring it in under chineserule completely is not. a so this is a complete misreading and also a. misrepresentation of what was happening. for the pastoralists 3 years hong kong as well a position parties that don't exactly those oil but that the law wasn't introduced until you know. as far as the. protests are concerned i don't think that it would be genuinely good it doesn't make sense for a change in hong kong into another showing but i think that beijing feels very very strongly that this red lines of our national security is is this great unequals and advocating independence opening. aid and it by foreign host 'd of foreign powers that really cost as they do this where like isaac chang you shaking your head furiously what's your reaction for me i'm not a poll i am not supporting hong kong to marcus independent. i i i'm not a people who are supporting holland dependence but a lot of hong kong people are eating same as the s. we are not supporting on the independence but can be under the frets of the national

the other thing we have to remember, the chinese government passed a law, they called it national securityaw, that basically said chinese companies have to, they must cooperate with the chinese government. you have these kinds of laws, where the chinese government is putting pressure on their capital class in order to cooperate with their goals. it's not like getting a national security letter from the department of justice, because when the department of justice sends a social media company a request for information, it has gone through a legal process, a judge has looked at it. that's not the same process you are having in china. the lack of a chinese investment or ownership of a company that has a lot of data on american btizens would lower my lood pressure a little bit. going forward, it's probably going to be better but you would have to look back at previous activities. >> congressman, do you feel the same way about huawei? rep. hurd: huawei is a little bit different. it's already banned in the united states. huawei is basically one of the largest providers of equipment for 5g. why d

doing is critical quite frankly i don't trust the answers of those companies because the chinese national security law requires any firm hand over the information the government requests. we have seen over many, years with the chinese based platforms like t8 and tiktok as others time after time we have seen the intelligence community but also the private sector to continue cyberintrusion the lack of security and espionage when the shipment of data through the act of citizens from hong kong and many others. >> thank you. >> thank you for your leadership on this. the chinese communist party has a discourse how it feels about the social media platforms it would simply be the information content provider. one support of tiktok in particular if t20 who becomes more susceptible. >> i think there is strong bipartisan agreement that the united states needs to protect our privacycy from this invasive action the committee on foreign investment in the united states is considering new conditions on how they operate ten tiktok but so far this government has failed to act to protect americans and action is necessar

owner of one of the city's most prominent tabloids is facing charges under the chinese territories new national security law mr ly is a prominent pro-democracy activists and was arrested during a crackdown on critics of beijing at least 13 people are dead after a bus crashed in overturned outside of mexico city 3 children are among the victims police say the driver lost control of the vehicle when he took a corner too fast in wet weather lebannon has marked a week since that massive explosion that tore through its capital beirut on tuesday hundreds gathered on the city's streets in memory of the blast victims and in protest at the government's failure to prevent the disaster more than 170 people died and 6000 others were injured when a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate blew up at the city's port. was coming 7 soon one week on beirut pause to reflect on the moment the toll of the city of potch. mall. they gathered amongst the ruins to mourn loved ones and strangers the names of those killed were read aloud money apia emmanuelle of it was a day of mixed emotions and memories are running very with your ears o

check because of national security law steve forbes we know when jimmy lai was rephrased people worried would be brought to china perhaps tortured this national security law allows the chineseo china. even before that security law you had these so-called confucius institutes chinese money put on various campuses around the country we know intelligence enters, used to keep tabs on chinese students at those colleges and universities. and those should be put on the microscope i know things are starting to be done against some of them but they should have been -- not just canceled but thrown off campus if simply intelligence agencies yes, a lot has to be done, and i think putting a spotlight on it, you are going to see chinese students want to come to this country, and stay in this country they don't want to go back to that. maria: yeah, just amazing that the ccp can think that it can have this reach on arrest anybody it wants for saying anything, that they say about china, and think they can actually arrest that person prosecute that person mark. >> it is the same old same old from the ccp, they want to spread their message, around the world, but it has to be their message, wi

is going because ticked off because owned by by which is a chinese company a lot of the data servers are based in china and national security law in china means the government can at any point basically require a chinese company to get access to the data that they hold so that the core the concern is it doesn't really matter whether to talk the company intends to be working with the chinese government the chinese government can compel them to hand over to. so tick-tock is made it very clear that it's not political and wouldn't pass user data to beijing your response to that would be essentially it doesn't matter what tech doc says. affectively yes it sort of ironic in this is actually that there was a recent ruling in in europe regarding. concerns around facebook holding data on european citizens and the us national security law saying that they can compel access to data of non us citizens that are being held by social media companies so it's very similar to the e.u. has concerns about us social media companies the us having concerns about chinese social media companies everybody has concerns about everybody else the social med

>> we know that any chinese company is subject to its national security laws whi requires it to share chinese government to. reporter: senior administration officials tell pbs newshour that by friday, they were prepared to ban tiktok from the u.s. president trumpade that threat public friday night. it's not clear whether the threat was empty but it worked. over the weekend, bytedance reportedly sweetened its offer. the c.e.o. promised to sellis stake and divest bytedance from the u.s. tiktok completely. over the weekend, president trump gave i his blessing in a phone conversation. >> i don't mind, whether it's microsoft or somebody else, a big comny, secure company, very american company, buy it. reporter: for more on ttok and the security concerns surrounding it, we turn to sam saks, a cyber security fellow at new america, a washington-based nink tank. welcome to theshour hour. you just heard john talk about how data in a chinese company can end up with the chinese government. we also watched how most of the videos on tiktok are pretty silly. how valid is the adminiyration's secur co

will that cause the chinese government to change its national security laws? i don't know.here a lot of other exchanges and we not coordinating the policy with anybody else. shery: another piece of news was china detained an australian television anchor, we have had these tensions between china and australia, tensions over the hong kong national security just like in. how concerned are your members about doing business in china and sing retaliation, given the rising tensions between the u.s. and china? anna: we are not hearing a lot of concern about government retaliation towards u.s. companies right now. the path we are on with the executive orders rapidly being released could result in some sort of targeting of u.s. companies in response. concerned people will be detained or anything like that. of -- the a matter entire china policy for the last a latears -- has created deal -- a great deal of operant -- great deal of uncertainty. even of things ultimately had in the right direction, when there is uncertainty, it is frequently the case customers and partners decide to opt

>> we know that any chinese company is subject to its national security laws, that require it to share the chinese government. >> schifrin: senior administration officials tell pbs newshour that by friday, w there prepared to ban tiktok from the u.s. president trump made that threat public on friday night. it's not clear whether the threat was empty, but it worked. over the weekend, bytedance reportedly sweetened its offer. c.e.o. zhang yiming promised to sell his stake and divest bytedance from the u.s. tiktok, completely. and president trump gave his blessing in a phone conversati th microsoft c.e.o. satya nadella over the weekend. >> i don't mind ifther it's microsoft or somebody else. a big company. a secure company. fvery an company buy it. >> schifri more on tiktok and the security concerns surrounding it we turn to samm secks. she is a cybercurity policy and china digital economy fellow at neamerica, a washington based think tank. >> welcome to the "news hour." you just heard john talk about how data in a chinese company can end up with the chinese government. anwe watched how m

security interests. so what you are doing is critical. for me quite frankly i do not trust the answers of those companies because the chinese basic law requires the national security law requires any chinese firm hand over when requested the information that the government requests. we have seen overr many years criticisms of this activity and the confidence we could have chinese-based platformse and equipment. tiktoc and others as you note and time after time, we have seen both from law enforcement and the intelligence community but also the private sector continuing cyber intrusions, the lack of security and espionage, the shipment of data through multiple tasks, for those in hong kong and others. >> thank you. >> thank you senator for your leadership on this. i want to add speed if about the social media platform instruments into artd is clearly a need to controles those platforms and it's simply going to be a content provider. to shape public opinion and in my concern with tiktoc in particular it could be interference should tiktoc [inaudible] going forward. >> thank you both for your comments. i think there's really strong bipartisannk agreement that

security interests. so what you are doing is critical. for me, i quite rightly don't trust the answers of those companies because chinese basic law requires the national security law, requires that any chinese firm hanover when requested, the information that the government requests. we have seen over many years, criticisms of the security and confidence we can have it chinese based platforms of equipment. huawei, tiktok and others as you know. in time after time we have seen from law enforcement and the intelligence community but also the private sector continuing cyber intrusions. and the lack of security. the espionage. a shipment of data through multiple acts of u.s. citizens that for those of uncommon many others. the very lives. >> thank you. >> thank you senator for your leadership on this party don't just want to add the chinese communist party has a discourse on the social media platforms and instruments like them and argues clearly that according to control his platforms, if it doesn't, it simply will be an information content provider. you need to actually control it in order to shape it. it simply information that might be stolen but also

being given to the chinese government so what do we know about that is china really spying on people and collecting their data using these apps. so the china. has a national security law which allows the chinese government to read to demand access to data from chinese go at the chinese companies the same hour is true for the us the us cloud act for instance allows the u.s. government has to a t. agency's to require access to non us citizen data on their platform so for a european person we thus no difference and pretty much every country has this kind of relationship between national security bodies and the way in which they're working there is of course a question about how do we feel particularly about the chinese government as opposed to the u.s. government if we look at things like. human rights situations if you are in hong kong obviously there is a difference between the chinese security agencies having access to your data versus u.s. security agencies so. generally speaking of the world the laws. that the chinese government has versus access to their platforms are not significantly different to those that other countries have the question is we how do we feel a

national security law. what does silencing the citizens mean? ♪ china's crackdown on pro-democracy activism continues with police arresting jimmy on monday for joining protests and criticizing chinesearty. one of the most high-profile people to be arrested since beijing imposed national security law in late june. retaliation for u.s. sanctions. what does it mean? bill, you and i know jimmy. what message is china sending by arresting him? >> jimmy has been a good friend, he knows our friend personally. i'm his godfather, his family is entwined with ours. this is a big week because it marks the freedom of the press. he has a magazine and newspaper that are very popular and they are the only real counter to the propaganda that's been put on. look how beijing has acted. they put handcuffs on him and they rated him with 200 police and they had pictures go out to humiliate him but everyone in hong kong sees handcuffs as a badge of honor because you have this extraordinary thing, he's a billionaire willing to trade in the comfort of the billionaires life for prison sentence and that's happening to a lot of people who aren't as famous or well-known. it china's heavy handedness squashing th

actually getting popular but as a result it has now raised a lot of national security concerns because the chinese government has a law that allows them to peer into any data that's on their soil if they want to share says that there's no proof byte dance who owns tick tock. >>does dive into personal information, but it isn't the first time the president has gone after china, you have to keep in mind that president trump has been. >>has been knocking china for at least the last 4 years and this is kind of par for the course in terms of him trying to really get tough against that come that country. >>and also there are examples for example president obama actually i went to and claimed national security concerns in 2012 with a company that was in the united states that was owned by a person so. >>it's something that has happened before and what i think is going to be interesting here is that the world of social media is so impactful on our culture right see it's not some behind the scenes who owns that energy plan or when informed cares in this conversation right this is about teenagers yet that have woven tick tock in

actually getting popular but as a result it has now raised a lot of national security concerns because the chinese government has a law that allows them to peer into any data that's on their soil if they want to share says that there's no proof byte dance who owns tick tock. >>does dive into personal information, but it isn't the first time the president has gone after china, you have to keep in mind that president trump has been. >>has been knocking china for at least the last 4 years and this is kind of par for the course in terms of him trying to really get tough against that come that country. >>and also there are examples for example president obama actually i went to and claimed national security concerns in 2012 with a company that was in the united states that was owned by a chinese a person so. >>it's something that has happened before and what i think is going to be interesting here is that the world of social media is so impacts on our culture right see it's not some behind the scenes who owns that energy plan or when informed cares in this conversation right this is about teenagers yet that have woven tick

onasury announcing sanctions top chinese officials, including carrie lam after beijing imposed a national security law kong. seeing the fallout. hong kong shares as well as chinese internet companies. of course, this follows the white house's move to ban tictoc and wechat. tencent lunging as much as 7% today after its dropping hong kong overnight erased $34 billion in market cap. empireu look at tencent its tentacles spread far and wide. before the overnight selloff, it was the eighth biggest company in the world. it has stakes in activision blizzard, right games, epic games, it is the biggest video game publisher in the world. it has deals with the nba, nfl, major league a's ball. also -- major league baseball. a big rating in the msci index. i was taking a look at a note. he says this would unlikely lead to a broad based in tech shares. we know tech has read the overall markets in the u.s. and asia. if anything, he says tech bands are like tariffs, they can be reversed in the future. we will likely see investors price in this latest bout of tensions with more divergence between the u.s. and china ma

president trump threatened actions since chinese officials imposed a sweeping new national security lawn hong kong. the british government sent $465 million to help businesses in northern ireland to deal with the reds tape -- the red tape called by brexit. protects -- the u.k. says it will help northern ireland firms handle customs declaration and other paperwork involved in importing goods. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. crumpton. this is bloomberg. david? david: u.s. payrolls numbers are always important, but they are also always a bit out of date by the time we get them. for a view of where we are right now in real-time, we welcome martin mucci, ceo of paychex, the second-largest payroll processing company in the country. welcome back to bloomberg. on the front lines, you are doing it day. where is the country in terms of jobs? martin: you have been covering it. i think this was a pretty good news thing today. it was better-than-expected, adding almost 1.8 million. we still ha

instead of taking meaningful actions such as repealing the national security law and stopping the systematic repression, the chinese communist party responded with a symbolic action and a growing number of nations are demanding real action from beijing. the ball is in the chinese court. spokenesident has strongly against china and will do so continuously. >> [indiscernible] >> i will not get ahead of they the president. >> he wanted to restart negotiations. who did he hear from and is tweet this morning said that schumer and pelosi had his number regarding negotiations. does that mean he is going to play a larger role in this process going forward or is this going to still be secretary mnuchin? >> they speak on his behalf. he has been engaged in negotiations and working closely with the chief of staff ammunition. democrats -- and secretary mnuchin. democrats should come to the table. the president says they would like to meet halfway, but those are empty words. if you want to meet halfway -- they have gone in the other direction. >> has anybody reached out to him? >> i will not go through his call log. he will have

it's been a vent full month since china's government imposed a national security law on hong kong chinese leaders say the legislation is essential to months of disruptive protests.

national security, conspiracy to defraud, and other offenses. this is all coming less than a month and a half after beijing rammed through a controversial national security law on hong kong, which gives the chineset power to investigate, search, detain, prosecute people for suspected crimes like terrorism, subversion, sedition. that was viewed as a real turning point, because hong kong is supposed to remain mostly autonomous from mainland china for a period of 50 years, up until the year 2047. the speed of the crackdown here as really got people surprised, because the authorities have barred at least 12 opposition activists from running for elections that were scheduled in hong kong next month. the authority have now postponed those legislative elections for at least a year on the pretext grounds of the coronavirus pandemic, for health and safety reasons, they say. a growing number of opposition politicians and activities are facing an array of different charges and prosecution. in the end, you've got much less tolerance now for opposition to the authorities. for freedom of assembly. nor now we see, freedom of press. that all adds up to an authoritarian crackdown. i've seen versions of this in o

chinese government. what this does, it is sweeping, meant to show defense. the national security lawn't know if people will be called off the mainland but it takes justice in the mainland, complete disregard for human rights and puts it in hong kong. i think that is what they've been fighting against. paul: businesses are starting to bounce back. but what if you could do better than that? like adapt. discover. deliver. in new ways. to new customers. what if you could come back stronger? faster. better. at comcast business, we want to help you not just bounce back. but bounce forward. that's why we're helping you stay ahead and adapt with a network you can count on, 24/7 support and flexible solutions that work wherever you are. call or go online today. millions of men are keeping their hair thanks to proven hair loss treatments, and you can to thanks to keeps. get online access to a physician and fda-approved treatments delivered right to your door, safely and affordably. go to keeps.com/tv to learn more. time now for hits and misses. kim. >> this is a miss to the government of new z

newly imposed national security or this would be the 1st time police are targeting activists outside the territory under that law. the u.s. is reportedly planning on ordering the chinese company by dom's to sell its american division of tech talk of a national security concerns u.s. media also reporting that microsoft is in the talks to buy about popular video at. the world health organization has want to be effects of the growing a virus pandemic will be felt for decades to come. as the top u.s. virus expert says he's cautiously optimistic a vaccine will be available within. and one of the worst affected american states in this pandemic florida has also been forced to close several testing site says hurricane approaches the hurricane is currently lashing the bahamas bringing heavy rain and strong winds it's expected to hit florida over the weekend as i was has already caused severe flooding and power outages in puerto rico are now the surviving boston marathon bomber has had his death sentence overturned by a u.s. appeals court the court says the judge who presided over a socket saw they have case allow jurors who already thought he was guilty a lower court will re-e

spend to 3 extradition and tax agreements with hong kong it's a response to chinese imposition of a strict a national security law in the territory the u.s. has already moved to and hong kong special trade status of the put sanctions on anyone involved in forcing the new there to slay sion difficult holland has more from hong kong. the reaction has been trickling in and so far the china's ministry of foreign affairs says in retaliation hong kong will suspend several legal agreements with a child with the united states they haven't specified what exactly what they will be but we've also heard from the hong kong kong kong government who say that they reprimand the u.s. is unilateral actions they say these treaties are agreements with the u.s. for for the benefit of both countries and they say that the u.s. is just talking more tensions with china and using hong kong as a pawn in geopolitics but this doesn't come as a surprise the u.s. breaking off this extradition treaty with hong kong the u.s. joints just a long list of other countries who have done this since that national security law came into place last month

activists outside the territory under the new national security law imposed by china donald trump is vowing to use his presidential powers to ban the chinese own social media platform ticked off from the u.s. and the president is against microsoft's recorded takeover attempt of tectonics u.s. operations and prosecutors in the u.s. and britain have charged 3 people including a teenage boy with hiking twitter they allegedly took over the accounts of high profile people such as former u.s. president barack obama and test abbas iran mosque in it bitcoin scam. budget plans capital has confirmed a record 472 coronavirus cases on saturday tokyo's governesses is considering a state of emergency in our region meanwhile has declared its own 2 week state of emergency after a spike in cases there a record 71 new infections were reported on 5 day the majority of cases on the southern islands of american troops stationed at the bottom line is that our procedures for u.s. forces are stringent they are effect and what we have seen a growth in cases in a couple of our bases of the manage they have been contained and there has been absolutely no connection

it is not tiktok itself that we are worried about, it is chinese government and their access to tiktok under national security laws that we worry about. >> i know when i go to the hill, i always said there are more fbi agent in california, are we expanding our efforts or our personnel? -- weekly at the number of prosecutor that work generally on that counterintelligence out of the house. for many years, we ramped up the counterterrorism. less growth on the countering nationstate. years, thest few terrorism threat has receded somewhat. the nationstate has amped up. that is the big difference. --n i was here from 2060 2006-2 thousand nine, it was a counterterrorism organization. seeing how much it has grown on the national security side, we have definitely increased resources. in the u.s. attorney's office, it was about a redeployment of sources, an increase in resources. the bureau has increased resources on the nationstate side. there has been an increase. director ray gave us some startling numbers. there has been an increase. more questions. i think you did almost all of them. i will start taking questions now.

someone who so much as speaks against freedom in hong kong has violated the national security law and is under threat from the chinesemunist party. this is a new and increased scope and it's the kind of thing we've seen at the direction of travel from the chinese communist party under general secretary xi. maria: so i mean, do you expect an election ever in hong kong? i mean, in that speech you referred to at the nixon library, you said that, you know, we are seeing the tide turn. i mean, you just said that a lot of our allies understand the threat. do you believe the u.s. has alliances here? we know that india has banned those 59 apps, we know the u.k. has come around in terms of not using huawei for its 5g. we know what happened in the south china sea. what about western europe? what about spain and germany and italy? do you feel you've got the support from the rest of the world? >> well, it's better than it was six months ago. and increasing. i think the whole world sees this. it's not because america asks these countries to engage in activity that 3ur pushes back against the chinese communist party that they ough

though,hat the chinese, say when it comes to the 2017 national security law that they have to provideny information that the communist party wants on-demand, though the way beijing puts it is that will not happen. and companies like huawei say they don't even have access to that type of information. how do you push back against those arguments? niall: they would say that, wouldn't today? -- wouldn't they? one has to take a very clear eyed view on where china is in relation to the internet as it is used by americans. china has been pursuing actively the kind of disinformation campaign that russia pursued four years ago in 2016. there is ample evidence that china uses twitter, for example, to push messages. for example, fake news about the origins of covid-19. the chinese foreign ministry was using twitter to push the absurd claim that covid-19 had originated in the united states. let's not pretend that china is not engaged in cyber warfare and information warfare, because it is. i do not think it is in the interest of any western company to take on trust, the things that chinese tech c