Day: December 6, 2021

Microsoft Seizes 42 Websites From a Chinese Hacking Group

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Microsoft said on Monday that it had seized 42 websites from a Chinese hacking group in an effort to disrupt the group’s intelligence-gathering operations. The company said in a news release that a federal court in Virginia had granted Microsoft’s request to allow its Digital Crimes Unit to take over the U.S.-based websites, which were being run by a hacker group known as Nickel or APT15. The company is redirecting the websites’ traffic to secure Microsoft servers to “help us protect existing and future victims while learning more about Nickel’s…

Under Pressure From China’s Authorities, Didi Is Delisting From the New York Stock Exchange

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Advertisement Chinese ride-hailing group Didi Chuxing said on Friday it would delist from the New York Stock Exchange less than six months after its initial public offering. Didi, which has been a target in a wider Beijing crackdown on the country’s leading technology groups, wrote on its official Weibo account that it would begin the process of delisting and prepare to go public in Hong Kong. Didi said in a separate statement its board had authorized the delisting in New York of its American depositary shares “while ensuring that ADSs…

China attacks ‘US-style democracy’ prior to Biden summit

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China has launched a campaign to discredit what it calls US-style democracy in advance of the first of Joe Biden’s two “summits of democracy” later this week. Over recent days, official Chinese media outlets and diplomats have made a string of scathing attacks on the US governing system, calling it “a game of money politics” and “rule of the few over the many”. They also touted China’s one-party governing model, calling it “socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics” and “a whole-process democracy”. On 4 December, Beijing issued a lengthy paper entitled…

China Calls on ‘Little Inoculated Warriors’ in Its War on Covid-19

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As the rest of the world struggles to vaccinate adults in the face of a threat from a new coronavirus variant, China has embarked on an ambitious campaign that it says will give the country better protection against Covid-19: full inoculation of 160 million of its youngest citizens by the end of the year. The campaign — powered in part with red flower stickers, balloons and boxes of toys for children who step up to become what nurses call “little inoculated warriors”— has gotten off to a fast start. In…