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One person assembles plastic bottle pumps, another paints areola on sex dolls, and a different individual takes a business etiquette class to learn the proper way to smile (one shows eight teeth…the top ones). All of them are Chinese citizens struggling to find and maintain a foothold in their country’s race towards global domination, and in “Ascension,” they give audiences a peek at what increasingly appears to be a devil’s bargain.

President Joe Biden has rescinded Donald Trump executive orders that would have effectively shut down the popular TikTok and WeChat apps in the U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPresident Biden officially revoked Donald Trump’s orders last year that sought to ban TikTok and other Chinese-owned apps, over supposed national security concerns.On Wednesday, the White House announced that Biden signed an executive order revoking then-President Trump’s August 2020 order instructing Chinese internet giant ByteDance to sell TikTok to U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorA podcast dramatizing the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American engineer, has been removed from audio platforms by producers — after Chin’s family members and an activist involved in the case said they were not consulted about the project.The “Hold Still, Vincent” podcast, whose producers included Gemma Chan (“Eternals,” “Crazy Rich Asians”), featured a star-studded cast for what was described as a table read of a script for a prospective feature film.

Rebecca Davis editorChina has shuttered a portion of cinemas in top movie-going province Guangdong after what reports said may be the country’s first community outbreak of the Indian COVID-19 variant. Reports did not state exactly how many cinemas have been affected.The theater closures come days after U.S.

much-anticipated “Friends” cast reunion special in China got a different, shorter experience than was aired elsewhere.Viewers in China were treated to a censored version of HBO Max‘s hour and 44-minute reunion of the ’90s sitcom’s cast, one which lacked guest appearances from Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, K-pop supergroup BTS or references to the LGBTQ community or urine. The three Chinese streaming platforms with broadcast rights for “Friends: The Reunion” — iQIYI, Youku and Tencent Video — all

The Kardashian-Jenner sisters usually aren’t afraid to tell each other exactly what they think, but this wasn’t the case when Kourtney bought Kendall a gift for her birthday.

Actor John Cena is facing a backlash after apologising to China for referring to Taiwan as a country in a promotional interview. According to CNN, the actor made the comments while speaking to the Taiwanese network TVBS, stating: “Taiwan is the first country that can watch F9.

Actor John Cena is facing a backlash after apologising to China for referring to Taiwan as a country in a promotional interview. According to CNN, the actor made the comments while speaking to the Taiwanese network TVBS, stating: “Taiwan is the first country that can watch F9.

“You absolutely spineless, chickenshit, pathetic coward,” Meghan McCain tweeted on Tuesday afternoon (May 25), blasting John Cena with the anger she usually reserves for her co-hosts on The View. Meghan, 36, was furious at John, 44, for apologizing after he referred to Taiwan as an independent country and not as part of China while promoting his new film, F9.

Fast And Furious 9, said that Taiwan, an island separated from mainland China by the Taiwan Strait, would be the first “country” able to watch the film.Coming under fire for his comment, Cena has since acknowledged his mistake and apologised in Mandarin. Sharing a clip on Chinese social media network Weibo, Cena said (as per South China Morning Post): “Hi China, I’m John Cena. I’m in the middle of Fast And Furious 9 promotions.