India Bans TikTok, WeChat and 57 More Chinese Apps Amid Border Crisis

07/01/20 • 14 min

News Briefing for July 1st. In today’s news, we will cover the ban on Chinese apps in India, Pinduoduo’s new CEO and Airbnb’s new China COO, Alipay’s steps to boost the Chinese economy amid the pandemic, an unexpected lawsuit between Tencent and Laoganma, China’s chili sauce giant, and McDonald’s actions to reduce plastic use in China. For What’s up, China?, we will dive into a piece of personal news on a top livestreamer and his success in attaining a ‘Hukou’, a form of household registration, in Shanghai.
China Tech Briefing is hosted by Caiwei Chen and co-produced by Caiwei Chen and Hazel Tang. Also thanks to our reporter Zhao Lu with her writing and intern Qiu Jiayi for helping with the interview. For more information, check our www.pandaily.com (http://www.pandaily.com/) and find us @thepandaily on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.
"Oh My God! Buy it!" Credit to 李佳琦 Austin Li

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Luckin Officially Delisted; and hit show “Sisters Who Can Make Waves”

News briefing for June 29th, 2020. China Tech Briefing by Pandaily is a podcast that tells you about what is going on within the sphere of Chinese technology and beyond. To keep up with the rapidly changing China tech world, make sure you're listening to our show every morning on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
In today’s show, we will continue to follow the updates of fraud-hit Luckin Coffee and its proposal to remove its chairman, Huawei’s largest flagship store in Shanghai, Didi Chuxing’s on-demand robotaxi service, Xiaomi in India, and Microsoft’s stores in China. At the end of the show, we will introduce to you a trending Chinese TV program everyone is talking about, Sisters Who Can Make Waves. The show re-examines the idol survival show craze here in China and how it’s shaping the popular culture landscape today.
China Tech Briefing is hosted by Caiwei Chen and co-produced by Caiwei Chen and Hazel Tang. For more information, check our www.pandaily.com (http://www.pandaily.com/) and find us @thepandaily on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Music: “Priceless Sisters 无价之姐” by Chris Lee

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Charles Zhengyao Lu Remains Luckin Coffee’s Chairman

News Briefing for July 3rd. In today’s show, we’ll continue to follow Luckin Coffee’s reorganization efforts after the results of the board meeting on the proposal to remove its chairman, Charles Zhengyao Lu; after that, we'll talk about Faraday Future, the share purchase of Car Inc., Alibaba Cloud’s overseas expansion, TikTok in India and Apple China. For What’s up, China?, we will catch up with a nonsensical advertising scam involving tech giant, Tencent, and Chinese chili sauce maker Lao Gan Ma.
China Tech Briefing is hosted by Caiwei Chen and co-produced by Caiwei Chen and Hazel Tang. Also thanks to our staff writer Zhao Lu. For more information, check our www.pandaily.com (http://www.pandaily.com/) and find us @thepandaily on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.