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<ul><li>Alibaba’s CEO calmly played down the risks of trade war between China and US </li><li>China wants its consumers to spend more as global demand for the country’s good wanes </li><li>Any stimulus to boost consumption in China will benefit Alibaba first </li></ul>The entire world is stressing about the unfolding trade war between China and US. But one man, Daniel Zhang -- the chief executive officer of online retailing giant Alibaba -- seemed rather unfazed by the clashing of the world’s two largest economies. “Trade war is only one matter,” an impassive Zhang told delegates at the World Economic Forum, adding that a country of over a billion consumers is a ‘self-sufficient’ market. In other words, China can reduce the reliance on Donald Trump’s US if it can get its consumers richer, more excited and prod them to splurge. “If there is purchasing power in China, then US and Europe don’t matter,” Zhang said on January 24. The $450 billion Alibaba enjoys a near monopoly in China’s online retail and any improvement in consumption will benefit the company first, before it trickles down to other parts of the economy. China had tried capital investments funded by debt in the aftermath of the global financial crisis a decade. It mined more coal but there were no takers, built new mills that made steel but couldn’t sell it, and developed properties that became ghost towns where only a few people lived. The fall in prices from excess capacity and production kept a lid on overall economic growth, and on the other hand, debt kept piling up as the government spent more money to revive the economy every time it slowed down. Now, China is taking a different approach -- consumers. And that bodes well for Alibaba. What's more, China is reportedly set to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-set-to-eclipse-us-as-worlds-largest-retail-market/" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">overtake</a> America as the world's largest retail market in 2019. The stakes are high in China, if the consumers are willing to spend. Open sesame China has strategically blocked foreign sites like Google and Facebook <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/technology/china-generation-blocked-internet.html" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">over the last decade</a> and the crackdown isn't complete yet. On January 24, a Microsoft spokesperson <a href="https://gizmodo.com/china-may-have-blocked-microsofts-bing-in-latest-censor-1832007880" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">told</a> Gizmodo in a statement by email that it has “confirmed that Bing is currently inaccessible in China and [is] engaged to determine next steps.” Instead, the Chinese government made space for a bunch of home-grown technology companies that have thrived in the absence of foreign competition. Alibaba, for instance, has grown by leaps and bounds in China -- and its market value in US jumped more than twice to nearly $400 billion -- in the last four years. On the other hand, American counterpart Amazon whose stock is worth $800 billion today, has a measly 2% share in China's booming online retail market. Now, the lines between the state and private enterprise have increasingly blurred in China. In November 2018, Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma sold all his stake in the company and joined the Communist Party of China. “We’re seeing an increasingly close relationship between China’s leading internet companies and government because government sees them as one of the most effective ways to realise its policy initiatives,” Mark Natkin managing director of Beijing-based Marbridge Consulting <a href="http://fortune.com/2018/11/27/jack-ma-china-communist-party/">told</a> the Fortune last year. The benevolent enabler is now seeking his pound of flesh. “Communist Party committees have been installed at many tech firms, reviewing everything from operations to compliance with national goals. Regulators have been discussing taking a 1% stake in some giants, including Alibaba and Tencent, along with a board seat,” Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-12/china-is-nationalizing-its-tech-sector">reported</a> in April 2018. In the case of Alibaba, the company seems to share a common interest with President Xi Jinping, now more than ever before. The economy just clocked its <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/21/china-2018-gdp-china-reports-economic-growth-for-fourth-quarter-year.html">slowest quarterly growth</a> since 1990. The country’s stock markets had their <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/31/china-markets-2018-performance-was-worst-in-a-decade.htmlhttps://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/31/china-markets-2018-performance-was-worst-in-a-decade.html">worst year</a> in a decade in 2018. And property prices are crashing. As the world braces for a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/The-worlds-CEOs-are-getting-increasingly-nervous-about-the-state-of-the-global-economy-a-major-new-survey-shows/articleshow/67639644.cms">slower 2019</a>, all hopes of the Chinese establishment are pinned on the people of the country loosening their purse strings. And to prod them, the government will have to put money in the hands of consumers, in various ways including <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trade-war-china-tax-cuts-2018-9">tax cuts</a>. And when the millions of Chinese people spend the spare change, a sizeable chunk of it will pass through Alibaba. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/xiaomi-apple-samsung-will-fight-over-india-as-china-sales-slump/articleshow/67488525.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">Here's why Apple’s problem that began in China may spill over to India too</a>

China’s economy is sweating, how is Alibaba’s CEO so relaxed?

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Bing, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/microsoft" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Microsoft's</a> search engine, has been blocked in China.</li><li>China heavily censors what information its citizens can access online, a system that has become <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-great-firewall-censorship-under-xi-jinping-2018-3">known as the "great firewall."</a></li><li>In the past, China has cut off the country's access to several prominent social media platforms and websites, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Netflix.</li></ul>Microsoft's search engine, Bing, has become the latest website blocked under China's strict rules regarding citizen access to online information.&#xa0;<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/714ac466-1f64-11e9-b126-46fc3ad87c65">The Financial Times reports</a> that the Chinese government blocked Bing for "illegal content," a policy that China has used before to explain away its censorship of online content.Bing is the latest website to be blocked in China behind what has been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-great-firewall-censorship-under-xi-jinping-2018-3">nicknamed the "Great Firewall."</a> The more recent major platform to be blocked was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-blocking-whatsapp-2017-9">Facebook's WhatsApp in 2017</a>.<a href="https://en.greatfire.org/search/domains">China has blocked</a> many of the popular social media platforms, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Tumblr, and Reddit. China also restricts citizen access to several news outlets, including the New York Times, Bloomberg, BBC, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and Time.Read more:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-great-firewall-censorship-under-xi-jinping-2018-3"> China's 'Great Firewall' is taller than ever under 'president-for-life' Xi Jinping</a>Google's search engine has been unavailable in China since 2011, according to <a href="https://en.greatfire.org/search/alexa-top-1000-domains">censorship-tracking group Greatfire.org</a>. For many, Bing was one of the last remaining foreign search engines accessible to Chinese citizens. Google at one point was helping to build a censored search engine for China. However, the project - named Dragonfly - <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-dragonfly-china-canceled-2018-12">was reportedly shuttered</a> after facing severe backlash from Google employees.Under China's president Xi Jinping, the government has implemented several policies to increase online censorship. Censorship of online platforms has soared in the seven years since Xi took office, human rights organization PEN America wrote <a href="https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/PENAmerica_Forbidden-Feeds-3.13-3.pdf">in a 2018 report</a> on China's control over social media.A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed Bing was "currently inaccessible in China" in a statement to the Financial Times. Microsoft did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.&#xa0;Social media users in China posted photos to Twitter showing that their access to Bing's China site, cn.bing.com, was blocked.&#xa0;Get the latest Google stock price<a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/GOOG-Quote"> here.</a><div></div><div></div><div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-sales-slowed-stock-plunge-2019-1">How Apple went from a $1 trillion company to losing over 20% of its share price</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Microsoft's search engine, Bing, is the latest website to be blocked under China's strict online censorship rules

Digital platforms have provided relief and joy in a year engulfed by pandemic and lockdown. The mood continues into the last month of 2020 as much-awaited shows await to be dropped on your devices this month. IANS has listed some of the best Indian and international series and specials that OTT fans can look out for. Euphoria: Trouble Don't Last Always Starring Zendaya, who won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role, the show will pick up after the season one finale, following Rue as she celebrates Christmas after being left by Jules at the train station. It also stars Jacob Elordi of "The Kissing Booth" fame. It will arrive on December 7 on Disney+ Hotstar Premium. High School Musical: The Musical: The Series Set for a December 11 release, the holiday music special will see the cast of "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" spreading a feel-good holiday cheer. The cast features Joshua Bassett, Olivia Rodrigo, Sofia Wylie, Matt Cornett, Kate Reinders, Julia Lester, <keyword id="10371386" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="larry-saperstein">Larry Saperstein</keyword>, Dara Renee and Frankie Rodriguez. It will be available on Disney+ Hotstar Premium. LA's Finest It shows how detective Syd Burnett (Gabrielle Union) and her partner Nancy McKenna (Jessica Alba), take on dangerous criminals in Los Angeles. Season 2 will be available on December 4 on SonyLIV. Shameless S11 Shameless has lined up its last season for a December 11 release on Amazon Prime Video. The final season will follow the Gallagher family as they deal with the pandemic, while Ian (Cameron Monaghan) and Mickey (Noel Fisher) adjust to married life. The comedy drama also stars William H. Macy and <keyword id="10111474" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ethan-Cutkosky">Ethan Cutkosky</keyword>. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina The supernatural horror series will conclude with season four. Starring Kiernan Shipka as the teen witch, the upcoming season drops on December 31 on Netflix. Black Widows Actors Mona Singh, <keyword id="38560" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Swastika-Mukherjee">Swastika Mukherjee</keyword>, Shamita Shetty and Raima Sen will be seen in the Indian web series that revolves around how three best friends, who thought they got away with the perfect crime of killing their abusive husbands, find all has not ended yet. It will be the eighth international remake following adaptations in Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, the Middle East, Mexico, Scandinavia and the Czech Republic. The series is slated to premiere on December 18 on Zee5. Paurashpur A period drama, the makers claim the show belongs to a genre never seen before on the Indian OTT space. Starring Annu Kapoor, Milind Soman, Shilpa Shinde, Poulomi Das, <keyword id="479417" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sahil-Salathia">Sahil Salathia</keyword>, Shaheer Sheikh and Flora Saini, it will launch on December 29 on ALTBalaji and Zee5. <keyword id="10371385" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="bhaag-beanie-bhaag">Bhaag Beanie Bhaag</keyword> Actress Swara Bhasker will essay the role of a stand-up comic in the upcoming series, which she describes as a story of a girl finding a place for herself amidst chaos. It will start streaming on Netflix from December 4. Outside In It is a comedy special by stand-up star Vir Das, who has dedicated it to each one of us who has survived this year. The comedy special is created out of 30 virtual shows that he did during lockdown. It will premiere on Netflix on December 16. Sandwich Fate brings love in Naina and Sameer's life and later love brings marriage. What happens next in their married life is what the show is all about. Directed by Rohan Sippy, Sandwich features Aahana Kumra and Kunaal Roy Kapur. The show will arrive on SonyLIV on December 25. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/top-stock-movers-ril-maruti-indigo-dhfl-spicejet-wipro-future-retail-and-others/articleshow/79541459.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Sensex, Nifty hit record high — these are the top movers in trade today</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/india-may-reportedly-block-wikipedia-if-the-site-doesnt-delete-the-map-showing-aksai-chin-as-a-part-of-china/articleshow/79541391.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">India may reportedly block Wikipedia if the site doesn't delete the map showing Aksai Chin as a part of China</a>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Pedro Fiúza/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesMicrosoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Microsoft search engine <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/bing">Bing</a> is available for use in China after it was temporarily blocked by the Chinese government. </li><li>Since Google was blocked in 2011, Bing has been the only search engine from a non-Chinese company still accessible to Chinese citizens.</li><li>China's strict censorship policy, which has earned the name "the Great Firewall," has blocked citizen access to several prominent social media platforms and websites for news outlets.</li><li>In an appearance on FOX Business Network on Thursday, Microsoft president Brad Smith said that China's block of Bing "is not the first time it's happened."</li></ul>Bing is back online in China just a day after the Microsoft search engine was blocked under the government's strict online censorship policies.A Microsoft spokesperson told Business Insider that "service is now restored" after the search engine was "inaccessible" to Chinese citizens. After China removed access to Google back in 2011, Bing was the only search engine from a non-Chinese company that remained.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-blocks-microsofts-bing-online-censorship-2019-1">Reports of Bing outages first surfaced</a> on social media Wednesday from users in China who were unable to access Bing's Chinese website, cn.bing.com.<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/714ac466-1f64-11e9-b126-46fc3ad87c65">The Financial Times reported</a> that the Chinese government cited "illegal content" as the reasoning for the block. The same reasoning has been used by Chinese authorities in the past to block Chinese citizens from accessing popular social media platforms (like Facebook, Google, and Twitter) and prominent news outlets (like the BBC, the New York Times, and Bloomberg).Bing is the latest website to be blocked in China behind what has been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-great-firewall-censorship-under-xi-jinping-2018-3">nicknamed the "Great Firewall."</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/08/china-blocks-guardian-website">In the past</a>, China has implemented temporary blocks on websites before restoring them or blocking them permanently. It's unclear which category the block on Bing falls into. In an appearance on FOX Business Network on Thursday, Microsoft president Brad Smith said that China's block of Bing "is not the first time it's happened."Get the latest Microsoft stock price<a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/MSFT-Quote"> here.</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-copycats-will-cost-you-movie-streaming-price-2019-1">Netflix copycats are changing the streaming game and making viewers pay the price</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Microsoft's Bing search engine returns to China just a day after users reported outages

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11892748" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="china" source="Orion">China</keyword>'s Twitter-like <keyword id="11895013" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="social-media" source="Orion">social media</keyword> platform <keyword id="12012028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="weibo" source="Orion">Weibo</keyword> can giveth but it can also taketh away.</li><li>Fans have flocked to Weibo to lavish praise on their favorite athletes and excoriate competitors and teams they despise. </li></ul>China's Weibo can sometimes seem like the country's supreme arbiter of good and evil, a billion-headed social media hydra dishing out heaps of praise or scorn on a whim.The platform's <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/795303/china-mau-of-sina-weibo/">573 million users</a> flock to the site to exalt their favorite celebs and athletes, but they're also not afraid to go on the attack. Those who find themselves on Weibo's hit list suffer the wrath of millions of vitriolic commenters, and perhaps nobody knows that better than this year's current crop of Olympic stars. In a country where information is heavily censored behind the <a href="https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/2010-11/FreeExpressionVsSocialCohesion/china_policy.html">Great Firewall</a>, web users without access to foreign media outlets have turned to the platform to cook up narratives about the Beijing Games, taking sides and dropping hot takes on the athletes and the goings-on at the Olympics. And while Twitter-like Weibo says it has <a href="https://www.insider.com/chinas-weibo-bans-accounts-following-online-abuse-of-olympic-athletes-2022-2">banned accounts and deleted hateful posts en masse,</a> some athletes and teams are still facing harsh criticism from opinionated Chinese web users. Meanwhile, other athletes have been warmly embraced by Chinese fans, benefiting greatly from a PR boost in the Olympics' host country. Here's a round-up of the six heroes and villains of the Beijing Games, according to Chinese social media — those who captured the hearts of Chinese web users and those who found themselves facing a wave of hateful comments and criticism. <h2>Japan's Ice Prince <keyword id="13122115" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="yuzuru-hanyu" source="Orion">Yuzuru Hanyu</keyword> became China's darling, bridging testy geopolitical divides</h2><div type="image" title="Yuzuru Hanyu competes in the men's singles figure skating in Beijing." height="3420" width="4559" msid="89630074" hostid="261"></div>Despite <a href="https://www.insider.com/japanese-figure-skater-yuzuru-hanyu-quadruple-axel-beijing-games-2022-2">falling twice in his free skate</a> and <a href="https://www.insider.com/heartbreak-for-japan-after-yuzuru-hanyu-misses-quadruple-salchow-2022-2">making a significant misstep in his short program</a>, Japan's "Ice Prince" Yuzuru Hanyu officially won the Weibo game. "Yuzuru Hanyu is a fairy. I guess I fell in love with the enemy's son," <a href="https://m.weibo.cn/5274854180/4734190169884856">wrote</a> one Weibo commenter, referring to the <a href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/strained-ties-between-china-and-japan">strained relations between Japan and China.</a>In the days after his calamitous short program skate, Hanyu received an outpouring of support on Weibo, with hashtags like "Why We Love Yuzuru Hanyu" going viral and making it onto the top trends on the platform. And after Hanyu's free skate, <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2022/02/11/olympics/winter-olympics/olympics-figure-skating/hanyu-chinese-fans/">the hashtag #4A</a> (referring to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/interactive/2022/how-yuzuru-hanyu-nearly-landed-quadruple-axel/">Hanyu's attempt at the elusive and risky quadruple Axel jump</a>) trended on the platform too.At press time, Hanyu's name was still the number one search topic on Weibo's <keyword id="11893855" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sports" source="Orion">sports</keyword> section, with around 325,000 topic threads dedicated to him. But his time in Beijing hasn't been entirely scandal-free. Some fans took issue with <a href="https://www.insider.com/chinese-web-users-defend-beijings-ice-yuzuru-hanyu-misses-jump-2022-2">Hanyu's claim that he missed a vital jump because his skates got caught in a hole in the ice.</a> Following his comment, Weibo users took to the platform to <a href="https://www.insider.com/chinese-web-users-defend-beijings-ice-yuzuru-hanyu-misses-jump-2022-2">defend the quality of the skating rink's ice</a> and blamed the skater's "karma" for the mistake. <h2>Eileen Gu, the 'Frog Princess' millionaire — and China's new 'It' girl</h2><div type="image" title="Eileen Gu poses with her gold medal from the women's freestyle skiing big air event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics." height="1620" width="2160" msid="89630076" hostid="261"></div>When Eileen Gu spun her way to a <a href="https://www.insider.com/eileen-gu-bows-chinese-crowd-wins-olympic-gold-final-run-2022-2">gold finish during the women's big air freestyle ski competition</a>, Weibo <a href="https://www.insider.com/eileen-gu-crashes-chinese-social-media-site-weibo-gold-medal-2022-2">crashed</a>. Her victory netted 300 million views within an hour before the social media platform went down and took up seven of Weibo's top 10 trending searches, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/08/china/eileen-gu-wins-big-air-olympics-intl-hnk-spt/index.html">CNN reported. </a>Gu, 18, is one of Weibo's most beloved athletes, and she's turned that affection into lucrative sponsorship deals with <a href="https://www.insider.com/skier-eileen-gu-makes-millions-endorsement-deals-gusanity-2022-2">brands like Louis Vuitton and Tiffany &amp; Co</a>. Affectionately dubbed the "Frog Princess" because of a green helmet she wore as a girl, Gu has been the focus of rapt attention throughout the Games, from a discussion on <a href="https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E8%B0%B7%E7%88%B1%E5%87%8C%E5%90%83%E9%A5%BC%23">how she ate a pastry while waiting for judges' scores</a> to her <a href="https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E8%B0%B7%E7%88%B1%E5%87%8C%E5%A4%B1%E8%AF%AF%E5%90%8E%E8%A1%A8%E6%83%85%E5%A5%BD%E5%8F%AF%E7%88%B1%23">"cute" reaction to a fumble at the big air qualifier.</a>According to Weibo statistics seen by Insider, each trending topic about her has accumulated hundreds of millions of views. When these numbers are combined, they easily stack up to the billions. So far, Gu's reputation on Weibo has remained airtight, apart from a<a href="https://weibo.com/6323095999/LeuZOB3DD?type=comment#_rnd1644582571045"> tiff among Weibo users over her VPN access </a>in Beijing. In contrast, she's <a href="https://www.insider.com/nikki-haley-eileen-gu-cannot-be-both-american-and-chinese-2022-2">faced American criticism for opting not to compete for Team USA</a> despite growing up in San Francisco.<h2>Chinese web users are fawning over their 'little brother,' snowboarder Su Yiming</h2><div type="image" title="Gold medallist Su Yiming of China reacts on the podium" height="1442" width="1923" msid="89630078" hostid="261"></div>If Eileen Gu is Weibo's princess, many users on the platform see 17-year-old Su Yiming as a little brother, nicknaming him "Little Su." When the snowboarder fell in a big air qualifier on February 14, <a href="https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E8%8B%8F%E7%BF%8A%E9%B8%A3%E6%91%94%E5%80%92%23">Weibo was inundated</a> with comments and posts asking if he was hurt."All is well as long as the precious child is safe," wrote one social media user whose<a href="https://weibo.com/6320391439/LfrcAbuWg?refer_flag=1001030103_"> comment received over 3,000 likes</a>."As long as he isn't hurt," read another comment with several crying-face and baby emojis, which accrued 6,670 likes.In the first days of the Winter Olympics, Chinese buzz about Su revolved mainly around him being <a href="https://www.insider.com/su-yiming-snowboarders-coach-begs-fans-respect-judges-after-error-2022-2">snubbed at the men's slopestyle final</a> on February 7. Judges failed to notice that Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot grabbed his knee instead of his board, <a href="https://www.insider.com/head-winter-olympic-judge-admits-error-cost-china-snowboarder-gold-2022-2">a mistake that chief judge Iztok Sumatic later said should have cost Parrot three points and put him below Su</a>. With the error not factored into the scoring that day, Parrot won gold, and Su came in second. Weibo users were outraged, and the topic of Sumatic's admission drew 710 million views on the platform."You stole a 17-year-old boy's gold medal," <a href="https://weibo.com/6320391439/LeN7AjhfQ?refer_flag=1001030103_">commented one user, gaining 32,800 likes.</a>Even before Sumatic admitted the error, users were spreading wild conspiracy theories, under the hashtag <a href="https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E5%8A%A0%E6%8B%BF%E5%A4%A7%E8%A3%81%E5%88%A4%23">#CanadaReferee,</a> that a Canadian judge had intentionally given Su low scores and boosted Parrot's so their countryman could win gold.Others posted memes of the Olympic mascot Bing Dwen Dwen<a href="https://www.insider.com/su-yiming-snowboard-weibo-memes-panda-bingdundun-mascot-threatening-judges-2022-2"> threatening to shoot, ram, or club the unnamed judge to death</a>. The International Olympic Committee previously told Insider it condemns the memes and said they're "contrary to the Olympic spirit."The narrative around Su changed on Tuesday when he clinched gold in the snowboarding big air final. Discussion of his victory exploded to <a href="https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E8%8B%8F%E7%BF%8A%E9%B8%A3%E9%87%91%E7%89%8C%23">1.03 billion views</a> within six hours of the results' announcement.Weibo users, noticing that Su would turn 18 just three days after his win, flooded the platform with well-wishes."The best 18th birthday present ever! The Amazing Little Su! You're too awesome!" <a href="https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E8%8B%8F%E7%BF%8A%E9%B8%A3%E8%BF%98%E6%9C%893%E5%A4%A918%E5%B2%81%23">read one comment with 39,747 likes.</a><h2>Zhu Yi, the American-born ice skater, tops the list of athletes Chinese web users love to hate</h2><div type="image" title="Zhu Yi of Team China falls during the Women Single Skating Short Program Team Event on day two of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 06, 2022 in Beijing, China." height="682" width="909" msid="89630080" hostid="261"></div>US-born figure skater Zhu Yi, 19, chose to represent China instead of joining Team USA, giving up her American passport and even changing her name from Beverly Zhu. But her reception in the host nation has been marred by a disastrous debut performance — at least in Weibo's eyes.She became the subject of national derision when she <a href="https://www.insider.com/zhu-yi-ice-skater-slammed-china-social-media-fall-2022-2">failed to land two jumps</a> and crashed into a wall at the women's singles short program during the February 6 team event, dropping China from third place and a bronze medal finish to fifth. The skater tearfully told reporters she was "upset and embarrassed," per the <a href="https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3166035/shame-zhu-yi-chinese-fans-turn-us-born-figure-skater-after-fall-winter">South China Morning Post.</a>However, that apology was not enough to quell the rage of Chinese web users, who blamed her for knocking China down in the standings."There is no next time. Shameful," read <a href="https://weibo.com/6320391439/LelOchN5N?refer_flag=1001030103_">one comment with 46,000 likes</a> in a thread discussing Zhu's performance."She still has a few individual competitions left. She can fall a few more times," a user replied dryly, receiving 6,000 likes.The vitriol against Zhu got so bad that the Chinese censors stepped in, <a href="https://www.insider.com/chinas-weibo-bans-accounts-following-online-abuse-of-olympic-athletes-2022-2">taking down more than 71,000 posts about Zhu to curb the abuse</a>. Some Weibo users have also come to the skater's defense, condemning the abuse of Zhu on the platform. "People online who abuse their athletes are disgusting," said one comment on a <a href="https://www.insider.com/eileen-gu-says-chinese-social-media-posts-are-positive-2022-2">post discussing Eileen Gu's response</a> to Insider's previous reporting on Zhu. Gu had written on Instagram that "90% of comments are positive and uplifting."But <a href="https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E8%B0%B7%E7%88%B1%E5%87%8C%E9%BC%93%E5%8A%B1%E6%9C%B1%E6%98%93%23">another comment on the same Weibo thread</a> said: "I think Gu's response to the US media isn't saying Zhu Yi isn't bad. Why are we still trying to wipe Zhu Yi's slate clean?"<h2>Chinese social media users described US figure skater Nathen Chen as an 'inelegant' 'national traitor' </h2><div type="image" title="Nathan Chen of Team United States skates during the Men Single Skating Free Skating on day six of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 10, 2022 in Beijing, China." height="3083" width="4111" msid="89630081" hostid="261"></div>While his rival Hanyu reached star status in Beijing, American Nathan Chen bore the brunt of negative comments. Weibo commenters berated the athlete, who is Asian American, for being too Americanized. The neutral-sounding hashtag "American Skater Nathan Chen Gold Medal" concealed a deluge of hate comments directed at Chen for his performance, where he <a href="https://www.insider.com/nathan-chen-clinches-gold-beijing-with-record-breaking-score-2022-2">stacked one quadruple jump after another to clinch his first gold medal.</a>"His name is Nathan Chen, and he does not deserve a Chinese name," <a href="https://m.weibo.cn/status/4735348975866407?">read a comment</a> on Weibo that was liked over 2,700 times. Chen's performance, the comment continued, was "totally devoid of aesthetic beauty." Commenters also expressed their outrage at Chen snagging the gold medal over two-time Olympic champ Hanyu, <a href="https://m.weibo.cn/status/4735332191311566?">mocking him</a> and calling him <a href="https://m.weibo.cn/status/4735665844258110?">far less visually appealing and skilled</a> in comparison to his Japanese competitor. According to reporting from <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/11/china/eileen-gu-zhu-yi-nathan-chen-comparison-intl-hnk-dst/index.html">CNN</a>, some social media posters <a href="https://m.weibo.cn/status/4735370954803184?">called Chen a national traitor</a>, taking issue with the US skater's <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/olympics-2022-usa-usopc-idCNL1N2RG00H">comments in October</a> on China's human rights abuses of the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. The commenters also seized upon <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcbV8dt8i7E">Chen's song choice at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang</a> when he skated to a song from <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071812/">"Mao's Last Dancer,"</a> a movie about a Chinese dancer in the 1980s who defected to America. <h2>Chinese social media users dogpiled on South Korea's speed skating team </h2><div type="image" title="Daeheon Hwang of Team South Korea celebrates winning the Gold medal during the Men's 1500m Final A on day five of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium" height="1333" width="1778" msid="89630082" hostid="261"></div>It wasn't just individual athletes who bore the brunt of vitriolic personal attacks on Weibo — teams got their share of it too. In particular, China's commenters criticized South Korea's speed skating team, accusing their rivals of cheating. Weibo users <a href="https://weibo.com/3775056661/LfqiNtuQB?refer_flag=1001030103_">alleged</a> that the South Korean team were "serial cheaters" and <a href="https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E9%9F%A9%E5%9B%BD%E9%80%89%E6%89%8B%E6%8B%92%E7%BB%9D%E9%87%87%E8%AE%BF%E7%9B%B4%E6%8E%A5%E7%A6%BB%E5%9C%BA%23">slammed them for a viral video</a> in which some team members <a href="https://weibo.com/7129747412/LfjVKoTlO?refer_flag=1001030103_">appeared to ignore members of the Chinese press after competing</a>. Among the South Korean speed skaters, short-tracker Hwang Dae Heon was the target of the bulk of the hate comments. This <a href="https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%23%E9%BB%84%E5%A4%A7%E5%AE%AA%E7%8A%AF%E8%A7%84%23">stemmed from a move he made on the ice</a>, where <a href="https://m.weibo.cn/status/4736504813064464?">one of his skates appeared to move close to the face of his Chinese competitor, Wu Dajing</a>."What an extremely vicious character, forcing our Wu Dajing to slow down to not get cut," read <a href="https://m.weibo.cn/status/4737236170704381?">one comment</a> liked around 640 times. "Expel this skater for his dirty tricks!" Hwang later <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/chinese-ambassador-congratulates-korean-skater-on-gold-medal-11021405">won South Korea's first gold medal of the Beijing Games</a> when his <a href="https://www.insider.com/ren-ziwei-disqualified-days-after-accusations-pro-china-judging-bias-2022-2">Chinese rival, Ren Ziwei, was penalized for an arm block in the 1,500-meter short track event.</a> His win over Ren made things worse on Weibo, with some viral comments <a href="https://m.weibo.cn/status/4736725349568242?">calling for Hwang to be physically assaulted and banned from the sport</a>, while others <a href="https://m.weibo.cn/status/4736534923712671?">compared his posture while skating to that of a dog</a>. Another speed skater from the South Korean team, Cha Min-kyu, was also <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252088.shtml">criticized for appearing to wipe the podium</a> before stepping on it during his silver medal ceremony for the men's 500-meter event. Some commenters <a href="https://weibo.com/6612952436/LfjcPn2HK?refer_flag=1001030103_">accused Cha </a>of insulting China, while others <a href="https://weibo.com/1223011103/Lfs7fl2ck?refer_flag=1001030103_">accused him of being immoral</a>.

China's powerful social media platform Weibo has dubbed these Olympic athletes and teams the darlings and demons of the Beijing Games

Chinese investors, finding the US business environment uninviting, are turning to venture capital to skirt heightened scrutiny, while some have pivoted to other parts of the world altogether. Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) into the US plummeted for the second straight year in 2018, tumbling 83 per cent to US$5 billion, according to a Wednesday report by the National Committee on US China Relations. A year earlier, FDI amounted to US$29 billion, down from the peak of US$46 billion achieved in 2016. The latest figure represented the lowest level of direct investment by China since 2011. In 2018, Chinese investors sold US$13 billion worth of US assets. Including those sales, direct investment in the US came to negative US$8 billion. The Trump administration has recently toughened its oversight of Chinese investment in the wake of a splurge of Chinese acquisitions, particularly in US technology, viewed as a national security threat. Chinese investors, as a result, are shifting into venture capital to avoid the stepped-up surveillance. Last year, venture capital investments from China to the US, an area that has existed for only about five years, increased to a record US$3.6 billion, mainly on automotive industry investment. Chinese venture capital had remained largely untouched by US regulators up to November 2018, allowing deal activity to continue somewhat strongly in semiconductors amid sharp drops in direct investment, the report said. Other investors from China pulled out of the US completely and shifted their focus to other parts of the world. Consequently, Chinese investment in emerging and frontier markets in Asia nearly tripled last year, surging 198 per cent from the year-earlier period, according to <keyword id="50190" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Asian-Development-Bank">Asian Development Bank</keyword>. <a href="https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2174078/foreign-investors-have-taken-note-chinas">Amid the gloom, a bright spot in US-China trade talks should not be ignored</a> Looking forward, "Chinese firms' commercial appetite for investing abroad remain strong," researchers wrote in the report. "However, policy hurdles in both the US and China remain significant headwinds." The overall decline in FDI continued for a second year as the US-China relationship grew increasingly hostile with US President Donald Trump's levying of punitive tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods nearly a year ago, launching the trade war. Since then, US trade negotiators have been pressuring China to implement structural changes to level the playing field for foreign companies doing business in China. The requested reforms would include halting the subsidising of large state-owned businesses and cracking down on intellectual property theft. <a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2169209/chinas-september-fdi-figure-rises-foreign-investor-shrug-aside">China's September FDI figure rises as investors ignore trade war woes</a> The US negotiating team also wants to end the practice of forcing foreign companies to transfer proprietary technology to Chinese joint venture partners. Disagreements over the implementation of some of these remedies have become a stumbling block in both sides' efforts to forge a deal that would end a tariff war that has hurt both China's economy and the global economy. Trump's unpredictable behaviour and decision-making process, however, have thrown a wrench into efforts to steer the trade battle to a conclusion. In an abrupt turn, Trump tweeted this weekend that he planned to boost tariffs on US$200 billion of Chinese goods to 25 per cent from 10 per cent on Friday. Accusing China of reneging on already negotiated deal terms, the US leader dealt a setback to those hoping for an imminent end to the trade war. <a href="https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/hong-kong/article/2150910/fdi-earthquake-you-probably-missed-and-what-it">The FDI earthquake you missed, and what it signals for global trade</a> After a splurge of acquisitions in the US, Beijing moved to control the flow of outbound capital, causing a drop in direct Chinese investment in the US. The government prohibited Chinese investors from acquiring assets in real estate, hospitality and other sectors. In the past year, major Chinese companies that had led the acquisition binge in 2015 and 2016 have sold assets worth billions of US dollars to bring capital back to China to boost domestic growth. In March, Premier Li Keqiang said in his government work report that Beijing would set a lower economic growth target for this year of 6 to 6.5 per cent, down from the target of "about 6.5 per cent" set for last year. <a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2108351/heres-why-incoming-fdi-far-more-important-china-thought">Why incoming FDI is more important to China than thought</a> It also said it would step up fiscal measures to stabilise growth, after factoring in headwinds, including the trade war, an already high debt level and financing bottlenecks for private enterprises. HNA, a conglomerate with businesses ranging from finance to aviation, has put hotels, real estate holdings and airlines and other assets on the market with a potential value of US$50 billion. Anbang, a holding company that started out in the insurance business and has expanded into banking and financial services announced the sale of its US luxury hotel portfolio, valued at about US$10 billion. The company is known for its aggressive global expansion, including its US$2 billion acquisition of New York's famed Waldorf Astoria hotel in 2014. <a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3009009/sequoia-china-cut-20-cent-its-investment-staff-fund-flows">Sequoia China to cut up to 20 pc of investment staff as tech slows</a> On the flip side, US venture investment in China soared to a record US$19 billion, nearly doubling the previous high of US$9.4 billion a year earlier. And foreign direct investment from the US into China stayed largely flat at US$13 billion in 2018 from US$14 billion in 2017, according to the report from the National Committee on US China Relations. China, however, dropped to seventh in 2018 among likely destinations for direct investment by foreign investors, according to the latest FDI Confidence Index, released on Tuesday. <a href="https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3008757/belt-and-road-bonds-are-poised-make-splash-investors-eye">Belt and road bonds poised for great leap forward</a> It was the country's lowest ranking in the 20-year history of the index, which is tracked by Washington-based management consultancy AT Kearney. China was the top destination for foreign investment for the 10 years ended 2012. This article originally appeared on the <a href="http://www.scmp.com">South China Morning Post (SCMP)</a>, the leading news media reporting on China and Asia. For more stories, please download our <a href="https://go.onelink.me/3586748601?pid=3rdpartycontentexchange">mobile app</a>, follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/scmpnews">Twitter</a>, and like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/scmp">Facebook</a>. Copyright (c) 2019. South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved.

Donald Trump's crackdown on Chinese investment in US sparks huge shift into venture capital

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping (not shown) make a joint statement at the Great Hall of the People on November 9, 2017 in Beijing, China. Trump is on a 10-day trip to Asia.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>The European Union says it is ready to work together on a tough new system to scrutinize investment out of China.</li><li>Now there's an end to "European naivety," the pushback against China has expanded globally in 2018.</li><li>Europe, with almost twice as much Chinese investment as the United States, is playing catch-up with the rest of the world following the US government's clear shift to rivalry with China under the US President Donald Trump.</li></ul>SYDNEY, Australia - The European Union on Tuesday came together to put an end to its gaping hole on the security and intentions of Chinese investments in the 28-state bloc.The decision brings the Europeans closer to the recent shift in US policy under the Trump administration which deems China a clear strategic challenger, and an unrivalled economic spy partially responsible for shifting some <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/fbi-china-espionage-chris-wray-2018-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">$US600 billion of intellectual property</a> out of the US economy alone.The EU has come up with a provisional playbook that will guide and coordinate the 28 members of the bloc on foreign investment - most specifically targeting investments out of China, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-china-investment/with-eyes-on-china-eu-agrees-investment-screening-rules-idUSKCN1NP1IJ">Reuters reports.</a>The European Parliament and the holder of the rotating EU Presidency, the Austrian government, made an agreement on Wednesday to set up an EU-wide monitoring of China's "opaque" state-owned giants that have been enthusiastically buying up European technology companies and infrastructure assets."Opaque state-owned enterprises or private firms with close government links have been buying EU firms using cutting-edge or dual use technologies and strategic infrastructure assets which could have a potential impact on the EU's security or public order," <a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2018/11/20/screening-of-investments-political-agreement-reached-on-an-eu-framework/">the EU said in a statement.</a>Negotiators for both the European Parliament and the EU's 28 member-states <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180906IPR12110/chinese-investment-in-eu-infrastructure-meps-urge-eu-countries-to-act-together">struck the deal to better protect</a> the union's strategic technologies and infrastructure, such as ports and energy networks.<h2>An end to European naivety</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Emmanuele Contini/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesChina's President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel shake hands during the official welcoming ceremony for the panda couple Meng Meng and Jiao Qing at the Zoologischer Garten zoo in Berlin.</div></div></div>Following an intensification of Chinese investment, the European Commission-run system will determine the risks to vital infrastructure or whether <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/congress-response-china-microchip-apple-amazon-hack-2018-10">indigenous innovations are being targeted by foreign agents or entities,</a> as claimed recently in the United States.The European Parliament's top negotiator Franck Proust, told Reuters that Europe was finally waking up to a threat that the rest of the world's major economies had already crystallized."It will mark the end of European naivety," Proust said."All the world powers - the United States, Japan, China - have a method of screening. Only Europe does not."A major hurdle is that more than half the EU member-states have no shared mechanism for thumbing through foreign investment, nor has there ever been a coordinated security or risk assessment.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-saudi-arabia-financial-interests-ties-hotel-bookings-sales-2018-10">Trump said he has 'no financial interests in Saudi Arabia.' But his businesses have made millions from the Saudi government, and the crown prince gave his New York City hotel a huge boost</a>Europe is composed of many different states with vastly differing economies, interests and concerns.Often when they try to balance the risks and attractions of Chinese investment, they come up with wildly differing measurements.<h2>Espionage in all but name</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">VCG via Getty ImagesA partial solar eclipse is seen above a ridge of roof as the sun sets on August 11, 2018 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province of China.</div></div></div>The proposed new law does not single out China by name, but the nod to state-owned enterprises and secretive technology transfers are glaringly clear references to Beijing.According to FBI director Chris Wray, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/fbi-china-espionage-chris-wray-2018-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">no country even comes close to China</a> in terms of corporate and foreign espionage.And investment often lays the perfect foundation.<a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/05/23/on-chinese-investment-and-influence-in-europe-pub-76467">In testimony given in May</a> to the US House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee, Philippe Le Corre a nonresident senior fellow in the Europe and Asia Programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, noted that from $840 million invested in 2008, China's annual FDI in Europe grew to $42 billion in 2017."Although the United States and the EU do not always speak with one voice, they should coordinate and present a united front as Chinese capital continues to flow towards the European continent," Le Corre said.<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-china-business-in-europe/">According to Bloomberg</a>, China's total European investments, including mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;A) and greenfield investments, have come to $318 billion. By the beginning of April, China had taken over around 360 European companies. That's 45% more than Chinese investment in the US between 2008 and 2017.The proposal, demanded by France, Germany, and the former Italian government still needs the support of the 28 EU states when they meet again in December.<h2>There will be some opposition</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Milos Bicanski/Getty ImagesRows of coloured shipping containers are seen at the freight terminal at Piraeus port, operated by Piraeus Container Terminal SA (PCT) on October 19, 2018 in in Piraeus, Greece. Chinese shipping giant Cosco said it has ambitious plans for the Greek port of Piraeus, including a boost on already-bustling container and car piers but also five-star hotel expansion. Cosco has already invested close to a billion euros ($1.15 billion) in Piraeus over the past decade, officials said, and plans to add another 298 million euros over the next five years.</div></div></div>In the EU neighborhood, Switzerland is a Chinese FDI magnet <a href="https://www.syngenta.com/site-services/chemchina-transaction">with ChemChina's acquisition of Syngenta, an agri-business giant, that concluded this year for $46 billion</a>, the single-largest acquisition by a Chinese company, ever.Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Cyprus, and Greece all have cause to welcome Chinese investment.Chinese maritime investment has been particularly focused in Greece and Portugal. <a href="http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/europe/cosco-aims-to-make-piraeus-top-container-port-in-the-med.html">Greece's historic port of Piraeus is now majority owned by China's COSCO Shipping</a>."State-owned enterprises from China have initiated more than two thirds of Chinese investments across the European continent. Chinese sovereign funds or state banks have financed other deals by private investors, illustrating Beijing's use of state-directed, market-distorting, mercantilist policies," Le Corre told the House of Representatives.Parliament will vote on the proposal in February or March."Member states will retain the power to review and potentially block foreign direct investment on security and public order grounds," The EU confirmed in a statement.<h2>Commence global pushback</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty ImagesA police officer stands guard to maintain traffic safety at the site of the New Year's Eve stampede in Shanghai on January 3, 2015</div></div></div>The move is part of a broader global trend, as individually both Germany and France, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand have begun to push back against the machinations hidden within the deluge of Chinese money.Europe has essentially been playing catch up with thew rest of the world following the US government's clear shift toward acute rivalry with China.<a href="https://www.lowyinstitute.org/people/experts/bio/richard-mcgregor">Richard McGregor, a China expert and senior fellow at the Sydney-based think tank the Lowy Institute</a>, said Australia's decision to reject a $13 billion bid for Australia's dominant gas pipeline network would have given a single foreign company monopoly control of most of the country's pipelines."If you're going to develop some kind of internal resilience in Australia you've got to push back against China. There's no nice way of doing it and you might pay a price at some stage," <a href="https://www.ubs.com/global/en/investment-bank/access/apac.html">McGregor said at a UBS conference</a> here on Monday.In Malaysia, the new old <a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2161069/mahathirs-pushback-against-chinese-deals-shows-belt-and-road-plan">Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has suspended or canceled</a> $26 billion in Chinese-funded projects since his election victory in May.Nations from Africa to the Pacific have taken notice after <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/world/asia/sri-lanka-china-port.html">China took a controlling stake in the Sri Lankan port of Hambantota</a> because it could not service its debt.Zambia has been left with little choice but to hand over control of its international airport as well as a state power company to China. <a href="https://www.news24.com/Africa/News/zambian-police-quiz-opposition-leader-over-attacks-on-chinese-20181120">Anti-Chinese sentiment</a> there, stoked by opposition groups, has been threatening to boil over as lucrative contracts are handed over to China and the government continues to binge-borrow from Beijing.<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/the-fishing-port-that-may-become-a-10-billion-chinese-debt-bomb">Myanmar is trying to negotiate its way out of a gigantic Chinese-funded deep-water port and industrial zone on the Bay of Bengal</a> - from one that was proposed to cost $7.3 billion to a more modest development that would cost $1.3 billion - in a possibly forlorn attempt to avoid what Western analysts have taken to calling the diplomacy debt trap.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/apec-2018-failure-us-china-xi-jinping-mike-pence-tension-2018-11">Vice President Mike Pence</a> has been the Trump administration's point man, most recently seeking protracted US counterefforts in the Pacific.A few months after the US began imposing stiff tariffs on Chinese imports - <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/us-china-trade-war-tariff-list-import-substitutes-2018-11">now valued at $270 billion</a> - the National Defense Authorization Act, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5515/text">passed in August and named for the late US Sen. John McCain of Arizona</a>, stressing a "whole of government" response to the China threat.The act comes at China hard on influence operations and the high-technology industrial threat, on the South China Sea and concerning the status of Taiwan. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-happens-inside-your-nose-when-it-runs-2016-8">Why your nose runs when it's cold outside</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Trump's pushback against China is catching on globally as European negotiator declares an end to the region's 'naivety'

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="http://pictures.reuters.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&amp;ALID=2C0BF1OZJRCB0#/SearchResult&amp;ALID=2C0BF1OZJRCB0&amp;VBID=2C0BX4DCNOIN&amp;POPUPPN=12&amp;POPUPIID=2C0BF1OZQUBP1">Reuters/China Stringer Network</a>Giant panda Weiwei leans on ice blocks to cool off inside its enclosure at a zoo in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.</div></div></div>Summer is often a slow period for markets, and slow it has been. Another day of low volatility for stocks has come and gone. It's now been 14 days in a row that the S&amp;P 500 has closed without a move bigger than 0.30% in either direction of its opening price.It was, however, the first time in 10 days that the Dow Jones industrial average didn't close in record territory.First up, the scoreboard:<ul><li><a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/index/dow_jones">Dow:</a> 22086.35, -32.67, (-0.15%)</li><li><a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/index/S&amp;P_500">S&amp;P 500:</a> 2,474.18, -6.73, (-0.27%)</li><li><a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/index/nasdaq_100">Nasdaq:</a> 6370.46, -13.31, (-0.21%)</li><li><a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/rates/u-s--rates-10-years">US 10-year yield:</a> 2.25%, +0.03</li><li><a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/oil-price?type=WTI">WTI crude oil:</a> $49.10, -0.21, (-0.43%)</li></ul>Top Stories<ol><li>The S&amp;P 500 is up over 10% this year, but only because it favors the biggest public companies. <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/Trouble-is-lurking-under-the-surface-of-the-stock-market-1002239793">If you weight the index equally, the growth doesn't look as promising.</a></li><li>After forking into bitcoin and bitcoin cash, bitcoin was expected to fall in value. <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/Bitcoin-hits-a-record-high-near-3-500-ahead-of-a-big-change-in-its-software-1002240087">But it's pretty much shrugged off the fork</a> and is hitting record highs. The combined value of a single unit of both bitcoin and bitcoin cash is now about $1,000 higher than a single bitcoin was before the fork.</li><li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-gundlach-doubleline-capital-coiling-markets-could-unleash-volatility-vix-2017-8">Jeff Gundlach thinks market volatility will pick up soon</a>. He says betting on an increase in volatility is "free money."</li><li>LendingClub was hit by a fraud scandal in 2016, but its battling back. <a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/lending-club-stock-price-q2-2017-earnings-2017-8-1002241528">The company posted its second-highest quarterly revenue and shares popped</a> on the news.</li><li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/credit-card-debt-record-2017-8">Credit card debt in the US is now above where it peaked before the 2008 financial crisis.</a> Defaults are on the rise for credit card and auto loans.</li></ol>Other Stories<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-tweets-trump-hillary-clinton-uranium-net-neutrality-2017-8">Mark Cuban has been on a wild, multi-day Twitter binge on uranium, Hillary Clinton, and Trump</a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/investors-eating-up-teslas-junk-bond-sale-2017-8">Investors are reportedly eating up Tesla's junk-bond sale</a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/top-banker-left-bank-of-america-rbc-cantor-fitzgerald-2017-8">A top banker left Bank of America to join RBC, but now he's changed his mind</a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cable-streaming-tv-youtube-hulu-roku-sling-digital-ubs-2017-8">Streaming subscribers are starting to make up for people getting rid of cable</a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-double-china-stores-2017-8">McDonald's is going to nearly double its number of stores in China</a><a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/snap-stock-price-slips-a-week-ahead-of-next-lock-up-period-2017-8-1002241262">Snap slips as traders ready for next week's lock-up expiration</a> Get the latest Tesla stock price<a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/TSLA-Quote"> here.</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-bottom-line-stock-market-records-apple-tesla-tech-earnings-jim-glassman-economy-2017-8">THE BOTTOM LINE: New record highs for stocks and a deep dive into Apple's iPhone</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Good morning. Here's everything you need to know in the world of <keyword id="35666" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="advertising">advertising</keyword> today.1. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/fake-facebook-dislike-buttons-are-being-used-as-a-phising-tactic-2015-9">Scammers are using fake Facebook "dislike" buttons to trick users.</a> Some users have been seeing ads offering "early invites" to try out a "dislike" button.2. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/quiz-numbers-in-brand-names-2015-9">Do you know what the numbers attached to these 13 brand names mean?</a> From 7UP to the Porsche 911.3. <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f9da727c-6207-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html#axzz3mdsgEQT6">Sir Martin Sorrell has urged Google to tackle the problem of fake ad views.</a> It comes after The Financial Times revealed Google had been charging marketers for YouTube ad views even when it knew that the "viewer" was a bot.4. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-baidu-deal-in-china-2015-9">Windows threw Bing and MSN under the bus to promote Windows 10 in China.</a> Microsoft announced a big deal with Chinese internet company Baidu, where Windows will have Baidu as their default search engine instead of Microsoft's Bing, and Baidu.com as their default homepage on the Edge browser instead of MSN.5. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ubs-says-ad-revenue-impact-of-ios-9-ad-blocking-will-only-be-1-billion-2015-9">The impact of iPhone ad blocking apps on global ad revenues will "only" be $1 billion.</a> That's according to analysts at UBS, who believe concerns about iOS 9 ad blocking apps have been "overblown," echoing a separate analysts note from JPMorgan.6. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/onfido-hires-googles-ed-ungar-to-lead-expansion-2015-9">A Google exec has jumped ship to join an identity-checking startup founded by three 20-somethings.</a> Ed Ungar, Google's former head of channel partnerships in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, has become the COO of Onfido.7. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/24/mail-online-digital-advertising-slows-down-to-16-annual-growth">The Mail Online's digital advertising revenue growth slowed to 16% in the 11 months to the end of August, The Guardian reports.</a> That's a significant slowdown from the 49% growth it reported in the same period last year.8. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tv-ratings-decline-2015-9">The number of people watching TV in the US is falling off a cliff.</a> Ad Age, citing figures from Nielsen, reported that every returning drama that aired Tuesday night saw viewers decline by double digits while debuts were a "mixed bag."9. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/just-capital-results-on-corporate-america-2015-9">Americans think corporations are getting it wrong.</a> That's the conclusion of a huge survey of Americans conducted by Just Capital, a nonprofit set up by legendary hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones.10. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/wal-marts-in-store-pickup-is-surprisingly-inconvenient-2015-9">Wal-Mart's attempt to beat Amazon defeats its own purpose.</a> In a bid to compete with Amazon, Wal-Mart has been investing more in in-store pickup programs, which allow customers to shop online and pick up their purchases at stores - but the process can be shockingly inconvenient. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/subliminal-messages-in-company-logos-2015-9">See if you can spot the subliminal messages hidden in these corporate logos</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="F2dnBhbDrbm9AU2pdhNFurBh0Sa5wjw3" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

The 10 things in advertising you need to know today

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Reuters/Ruben Sprich</div></div></div>We're onto Day Two of <keyword id="35666" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="advertising">Advertising</keyword> Week New York. That means another day full of long lines, panels and seminars, and of course, cocktails to top it all off.ICYMI, here are some of the highlights from Day One:<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/wpp-chief-sorrell-google-and-facebook-should-worry-about-regulation-2017-9">WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell said that given the recent controversies surrounding them, Google and Facebook should worry about government regulation.</a> "With scale and size comes responsibility," he said in a conversation with New Yorker columnist Ken Auletta.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/unilever-cmo-keith-weed-demands-more-accountability-from-facebook-google-twitter-snapchat-brand-safety-fraud-transparency-2017-9">Unilever marketing chief Keith Weed demanded more accountability from the 'walled gardens' of Facebook, Google, Twitter and Snapchat.</a> "At the end of the day, we've got to see over the walled gardens, and be able to measure across the whole market," he said at the first of his three Advertising Week appearances.Facebook's vp of global marketing Carolyn Everson talked all things video with Group Nine CEO Ben Lerer. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/25/how-many-users-does-instagram-have-now-800-million.html">She also announced that Instagram is now up to 800 million monthly active users, CNBC reports.</a>In other news:<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nbcu-will-sell-ads-in-shows-like-this-is-us-using-software-2017-9">NBCU will start selling ads in top shows like 'This is Us' using the same kind of self-serve software as Facebook.</a> Target has signed on as the first advertiser planning to use its data to buy automated, targeted ads on NBCU.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-has-signed-a-monster-global-deal-to-distribute-nfl-highlights-2017-9">Facebook has signed a monster global deal to distribute NFL highlights.</a> As part of the new pact, the NFL will post video recaps from all 256 regular season games this season to Facebook, along with clips from the playoffs and Super Bowl.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ditches-microsoft-bing-for-google-to-power-siri-search-results-2017-9">Apple has ditched Microsoft for Google to power Siri.</a> Search results on Siri, iOS, and Spotlight on Mac will now default to Google's search engine, as opposed to Bing.<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/uber-ceo-dara-khosrowshahi-open-letter-to-londoners-after-transport-for-londons-decision-not-to-renew-licence-2017-9">Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi apologized in an open letter to Londoners following Transport for London (TfL)'s decision not to renew the company's license.</a> He remarked that the company will fight TfL's decision, but acknowledged Uber's past mistakes.<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/china-is-blocking-whatsapp-2017-9">China has blocked messaging service WhatsApp almost entirely.</a> Now Chinese users won't be able to send WhatsApp messages, following this summer's crackdown on multimedia messages and video chats.<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/25/16354712/google-project-jacquard-levis-commuter-trucker-jacket-price-release-date" rel="nofollow">Google has launched its $350 (£260) Project Jacquard jacket in collaboration with Levi's</a>, The Verge reports. Its smart sleeves contain sensors woven inside the fabric that allow the user to perform certain actions - pre-set via an app - just by touching it.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/seeking-nominations-for-most-innovative-marketing-executives-2017-8">Business Insider is seeking nominations for the most innovative marketing executives in the world.</a> Submit your ideas via <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKgEP6uZBuqCsMPrksMVAvgTVllrFEAfcc2X-EtTXATqe7pQ/viewform?usp=sf_link">this anonymous survey</a>. Follow us at <a href="http://read.bi/2eHPhLy">@BI_Corporate </a> to be among the first to hear about news and updates from Business Insider. Also, sign up for the <a href="http://read.bi/2uscrJP">Executive Summary</a> , a new biweekly newsletter that brings the latest marketing news, trends, and company updates straight to your inbox. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ios11-iphone-software-features-tips-tricks-power-user-video-2017-9">The 5 best hidden features from the latest iPhone update</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

What you need to know in advertising today

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">ANDREW HARRER / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTYMicrosoft CEO Sadya Nadella.</div></div></div>Good morning! Here's the technology news you need to know today.1. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-baidu-deal-in-china-2015-9?op=1">Microsoft just made a deal with Chinese internet company Baidu, where Baidu will provide an easy way for customers to download a legal, licensed version of Windows 10.</a> In return, these Windows computers will have Baidu as their default search engine instead of Microsoft's Bing, and Baidu.com as their default home page on the Edge browser instead of MSN.2. <a href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/09/23/ios-9-security-flaw-grants-unrestricted-access-to-photos-and-contacts">A flaw in iOS 9 reportedly bypasses the passcode to grant access to an iPhone's photos and contacts.</a> According to Apple Insider, the bypass can be thwarted by creating a custom alphanumeric passcode, rather than a simple four-digit one.3. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/uber-to-raise-13-billion-more-for-china-branch-2015-9">Uber is looking to raise as much as $1.3 billion more for its China branch.</a> The company announced that it had closed a $1.2 billion (£786 million) funding round for its China branch last month, but now wants to raise that amount to $2.5 billion (£1.64 billion).4. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/ecj-advisor-says-data-transfer-deal-between-eu-and-us-is-invalid-2015-9">Europe just caused a massive headache for American tech companies.</a> Advocate General Yves Bot, an advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said the "safe harbour" agreement for transferring data between the US and EU is "invalid," because of concerns over US spying.5. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/facebook-360-degree-star-wars-videos-2015-9">Facebook has released support for 360-degree videos for Facebook on the web and Android.</a> It showed off its virtual reality future with a tour of a new 'Star Wars' planet.6. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/watch-the-trailer-for-the-new-angry-birds-movie-2015-9">Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, has released a trailer for a movie based on the gaming franchise.</a> The Angry Birds trailer boasts a star-studded cast including Jason Sudeikis, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader, Peter Dinklage, and Danny McBride.7. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/pebble-announces-pebble-time-round-2015-9">Pebble, the startup that makes some of the most popular smartwatches in the world, has launched a new model with a slimmer build and round face.</a> CEO Eric Migicovsky said the company had women's smaller wrists and design preferences in mind.8. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/pc-sales-wont-see-boost-until-2017-2015-9">PC sales are expected to drop 7.3% this year, to 291 million units, and remain stagnant next year as well.</a> But research firm Gartner says that they will ramp up 4% in 2017 when businesses finally start to adopt Windows 10.9. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-6s-specs-compared-macbook-2015-9">The iPhone 6s could be just as powerful as Apple's new MacBook.</a> Daring Fireball's John Gruber compared test results from the iPhone 6S and new MacBook to find that the results from Apple's latest iPhone were actually higher in some cases.10. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/ubs-says-ad-revenue-impact-of-ios-9-ad-blocking-will-only-be-1-billion-2015-9">iPhone ad blocking apps will 'only' cost $1 billion in lost advertising revenues.</a> UBS analysts say concerns over the launch of iOS 9 and the subsequent release of ad blocking apps - like Crystal and Purify - into the Apple App Store have been "overblown." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/south-koreans-tech-watching-people-eat-online-mukbang-2015-9">14-year-old makes up to $1,500 a night eating dinner in front of a webcam in South Korea</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="MwMDZkdzr7V54pSPAwMT1JU7p7MqmuY1" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

10 things in tech you need to know today

Welcome to <keyword id="34991" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="transportation">Transportation</keyword> &amp; Logistics Briefing, a new morning email providing the latest news, data, and insight on how digital technology is disrupting transportation and delivery, produced by BI Intelligence.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/transportation-and-logistics-briefing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sign up and receive Transportation &amp; Logistics Briefing free to your inbox.</a>Have feedback? We'd like to hear from you. Write me at: <a href="mailto:jcamhi@businessinsider.com">jcamhi@businessinsider.com</a>.GM'S MAVEN CAR-SHARING SERVICE TARGETS MILLENNIALS: GM's Maven car sharing service, which launched early last year, has found some modest success among urban millennials, with 80% of its users falling between the ages of 18 and 34. That's according to comments from Julia Steyn, Maven's vice president of mobility, in a recent <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/gm-maven-car-sharing-millennials-2017-8">interview</a> with Business Insider. The service is still very young, with only around 75,000 users in 17 North American cities. However, GM hopes to expand the service to become its answer to the major disruption in car ownership rates that is anticipated in the coming decades with the advent of autonomous vehicles.That disruption in car ownership is already beginning in urban areas, with car sales declining in major cities, according to Steyn. That is being driven by accelerating urbanization, particularly among younger <a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/10/21/357723069/millennials-continue-urbanization-of-america-leaving-small-towns">generations</a>, and the advent of on-demand rides provided by services like Uber and Lyft.<ul><li>A Reuters <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-rideservices-poll-idUSKBN18L1DA">survey</a> released earlier this year found that 9% of the 584 US respondents who had sold their car in the previous year had not replaced their vehicle with a new one, and instead used ride-hailing services as their primary means of transportation.</li><li>Additionally, 9% of 566 US respondents who planned to get rid of their car in the year said they will use ride-hailing services instead of buying a new car.</li></ul>Even though more people are choosing on-demand ride services over buying a new car, it will take a long time for declining car ownership to really hit the auto industry. That's because the average length of car ownership has been increasing - it hit a record of 6.6 years at the end of 2015, <a href="http://news.ihsmarkit.com/press-release/automotive/vehicles-getting-older-average-age-light-cars-and-trucks-us-rises-again-201">according to</a> research firm IHS Markit. That means that about 15% of the car-owning population is trading in a car each year. If only 9% of those are choosing ride-hailing over buying a new car, as Reuters survey suggests, then about 1% of the population has ditched their cars for ride-hailing in the past year. That longer car ownership rate is being driven by higher-quality vehicles that last longer. Since consumers are holding on to their cars longer, it would be long even by optimistic projections for on-demand mobility services to become the chief transportation mode in the US.Automakers, including GM, are responding to this early trend by exploring services centered around car-sharing, ride-hailing, and delivery. However, that is leading to increasing competition in these areas. At this stage, Maven still has far less users than Daimler's and BMW's older Car2Go and DriveNow car-sharing services, which boast 2.7 million and 1 million, respectively. And all of these car-sharing services are dwarfed by the largest ride-hailing services, including Uber, Lyft, and China's Didi Chuxing. Once they put self-driving cars on the road, more automakers will likely launch ride-hailing services that will compete directly with these giants. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="BI Intelligence" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59a0310a79bbfd04418b45d8-960/ride hailing usage.png"></a>BI Intelligence</div></div></div>FORD AND DOMINO'S PARTNER ON DELIVERY TESTS WITH SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES: Ford and Domino's are testing delivering pizzas with self-driving Ford Fusions in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Tech Crunch <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/29/ford-and-dominos-to-deliver-pizza-using-self-driving-cars-in-new-test/">reports</a>.The tests aim to illustrate how customers will react to and interact with autonomous vehicles. Domino's customers will be randomly selected to participate in the test, and then can opt in to have their pizza delivered by one of the autonomous vehicles. The delivery vehicles will transport the pizzas in individual containers that customers can unlock with a code sent to their smartphones.Ford plans to incorporate any insights from the test into its autonomous vehicle development, as it plans to launch a commercial delivery service using self-driving vehicles in the coming years. The tests with Domino's should help Ford figure out ways to improve the delivery experience for customers through new design features and functionality. Ford has stated that it plans to put an autonomous vehicle on the road by 2021, with the goal of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/transportation-and-logistics-briefing-fords-self-driving-car-strategy-continental-acquires-data-services-company-tesla-turns-to-cloud-for-customer-personalization-2017-8">building</a> out fleets of autonomous ride-hailing and delivery vehicles. Its research team at Greenfield Labs in Palo Alto is working on how to redesign self-driving cars for these use cases. With no need for a driver, seats, or an instrument panel, self-driving delivery vehicles could actually be smaller and still have more room for packages. That will also lead to radical changes in the exterior design of the car. For example, Einride, a Swedish startup, unveiled a new <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/40405140/this-autonomous-driverless-electric-pod-is-the-delivery-guy-of-the-future">concept</a> for an electric autonomous long-haul truck earlier this year that featured a unique aerodynamic design with no seats or windows.Enjoy reading this briefing? <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/transportation-and-logistics-briefing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sign up and receive Transportation &amp; Logistics Briefing to your inbox.</a>AMAZON GIVES LOGISTICS TRACKING SOFTWARE MARKET A BOOST: Amazon's free, two-day Prime shipping program is driving higher interest in companies that provide software platforms for tracking goods in-transit, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-effect-sparks-deals-for-software-tracking-firms-1504008000">reports</a>. Amazon has turned fast and free shipping into a competitive advantage, and other retailers, suppliers, and logistics companies are moving quickly to catch up.Asset tracking software platforms can help these companies improve delivery times by providing real-time location data about shipments, and alerting companies to possible delays caused by weather or traffic. That has led to increased interest and funding in companies offering these platforms:<ul><li>Convey, a startup that specializes in tracking last-mile deliveries, closed $8.25 million in Series B funding this week led by Techstars Venture Capital Fund. Convey's software is used by Walmart's Jet.com, and the company plans to use the funding to build out its offerings for international supply chains. </li><li>Earlier this month, supply chain software firm Descartes Systems Group acquired MacroPoint LLC, which provides a platform for tracking long haul and medium haul trucking shipments. This will help Descartes build out its tracking software portfolio, which already offered solutions for tracking air and ocean freight.</li><li>Target also <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/auto-suppliers-bearish-on-electric-cars-robot-swarms-in-warehouses-target-looks-to-speed-up-deliveries-2017-8">acquired</a> Grand Junction, which provides a platform for tracking and managing last-mile deliveries, earlier this month to expand a same-day delivery test it had been running in New York City to other markets.</li></ul>The retail industry shifts towards same-day and time-window (within one or two hours) deliveries will only increase retailers' focus on tracking goods and tightening their supply chains. For example, Walmart <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-12/fined-for-arriving-early-wal-mart-puts-its-suppliers-on-notice">introduced</a> new penalties last month on suppliers that failed to deliver goods on time. This trend will make real-time visibility into shipments a competitive advantage for retailers' suppliers and logistics partners, increasing adoption of technologies that can provide such visibility.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="BI Intelligence" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59a5ca1f79bbfd0d288b61ba-960/technologies for digital transformation-2.jpg"></a>BI Intelligence</div></div></div>In other news...<ul><li>China-based DJI, the world's largest drone manufacturer, <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/28/dji-pulls-drone-app-plugins/">overhauled</a> its data security and privacy practices after it discovered a third-party developer was collecting customers' private information. The data privacy issue arose from a third-party extension, called JPush, to DJI apps that provided app notifications to users when their drone footage was successfully uploaded to DJI's SkyPixel sharing service. DJI discovered that the extension was collecting unnecessary user information, including what other apps users had installed on their phones, without any disclosure. DJI said that it has now blocked the extension, and is reviewing other plugins for its apps for any similar data collection problems. It also started a bug bounty <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/28/dji-launches-bug-bounty-program-for-its-software-and-drones/">program</a> that offers between $100 to $30,000 for the discovery of any bugs in the company's software. DJI clearly hopes these moves will help demonstrate that it's serious about protecting customers' information to help defend its leading position in both the consumer and commercial drone markets.</li><li>Skydio, a three-year-old drone manufacturing startup, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/skydio-raising-roughly-40-million-series-b-to-make-ai-powered-autonomous-drone-2017-8">raised</a> $40 million in Series B funding. The company aims to build a technologically advanced drone that can fly itself with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), but has yet to unveil its first model. Its early prototypes leverage cameras and computer vision technology to avoid obstacles and track their environment. The drone manufacturing market is dominated by DJI, which <a href="https://www.recode.net/2017/4/14/14690576/drone-market-share-growth-charts-dji-forecast">controls</a> 50% of the entire North American drone market. DJI's scale has allowed it to slash prices and invest heavily in research and development, which has helped it keep competitors at bay. However, drones remain a niche product right now, and drones that are easier to fly thanks to better autonomous capabilities could open up the market to new consumers. </li><li>Toyota and Mazda are working together to develop a Linux-based connected car <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/mazda_toyota_linux_entune_car_infotainment/">platform</a>, dubbed Entune, that could provide navigation and infotainment apps. Entune's core apps include Bing search, Pandora, iHeartRado, and restaurant booking service OpenTable, as well as Toyota's own app for news and weather updates. Toyota and Mazda reportedly decided to team up on this effort because of a lack of software developers in Japan focused on connected car services. The platform will eventually come to the US in Toyota's 2018 Camry, and will then compete with Google's Android Auto and Apple's CarPlay connected car platforms. However, Apple's and Google's platforms are well embedded in the US auto industry at this point, as the two tech giants have each scored partnerships with several automakers to put their platforms in dozens of vehicle models.</li></ul><div id="categorypromo"><h2><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/transportation-and-logistics-briefing">Click here to sign up for the new FREE newsletter on Transportation &amp; Logistics from BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service.</a></h2></div>

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