GOP Senator Josh Hawley has dubbed the video-sharing app “China’s backdoor into Americans’ lives” Republicans in the House and Senate have introduced legislation seeking to ban TikTok on all devices in the United States – as well as prohibit transactions with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance – claiming it represents a major national security threat.
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On March 2, Valve, the American game developer, restricted the main payment methods on Steam for users from Russia, which are Visa, Mastercard and Mir cards. Now you can pay for purchases only through PayPal or an internal Steam wallet. Users of other gaming services faced similar difficulties, in particular PS Store, Microsoft Store, Nintendo…
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The bloc’s criticism of Russia-China cooperation in the Arctic underlines its Cold War mentality, the Foreign Ministry said NATO’s claims that cooperation between Beijing and Moscow in the Arctic represents a ‘challenge’ signals that the alliance is still dwelling in the Cold War, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Wednesday.
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