china
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Chinese Ambassador’s Twitter Account Likes Porn Video, China Calls for Investigation
Two days from now, we’ll celebrate the second anniversary of that time Ted Cruz’s Twitter account liked porn and all he could say in his defence is that it was a “staffing issue.” But China’s leaders operate a little differently than our homegrown hucksters. On Tuesday, the Twitter account of China’s UK Ambassador liked a…
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China Launched and Landed a Secret Reusable Spacecraft While You Weren’t Looking
In recent days, China has quietly launched a secret reusable spacecraft, left it in orbit for two days and safely landed it back on Earth. And although the spacecraft is top secret — we’re not even privy to its design — there are some things that China apparently wants the world to know about it.
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The Three-Body Problem Gains Game of Thrones’ Showrunners for Its Netflix Adaptation
Liu Cixin’s Hugo-winning sci-fi story The Three-Body Problem is becoming a television show at Netflix, with Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss showrunning alongside True Blood and The Terror: Infamy’s Alexander Woo.
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Facebook Denies They’re Lobbying for a TikTok Ban
Despite being at the centre of at least one massive antitrust probe while fielding regulatory pressure from right- and left-leaning pundits alike, Facebook’s spent the last few months doing a whole lot of nothing to tweak the monopolistic business practices that landed it in hot water with regulators in the first place. Instead, its strategy is…