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China says it would "firmly oppose" any forced sale of TikTok in order to avoid a nationwide ban in the U.S.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew today told Congress that Chinese parent company ByteDance may still have access to U.S. data as the video-sharing app attempts to prevent a potential nationwide ban.

President Biden gave government agencies 30 days to remove Chinese-owned TikTok from federal devices yesterday (Monday).

Lenses are big business: while we have seen the value of camera shipments nose-dive year-on-year, lens value has slowly increased and is now equal to about a third of the camera market. It's for this reason that third-party manufacturers have increased their stake in this market and particularly at the low-cost end where Chinese manufacturers proliferate. Who are these companies and what does their appearance presage in terms of the camera market as a whole?

Mysterious green laser beams that appeared over the night sky in Hawaii have been pinned on a Chinese satellite.

The United States government is currently tracking what it describes as a Chinese "high-altitude surveillance balloon" as it floats over Montana.

Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) has issued a written demand to the CEOs of Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their company's app stores due to the possibility that China's government could "weaponize" the app against the United States.

Sony has transitioned the manufacturing of cameras that are destined to be sold in Japan, the United States, and Europe out of China and to a factory in Thailand, which amounts to about 90% of its total production.

A photographer has given free funeral portraits to nearly 3,000 elderly people in China's rural areas.

Members of both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate have introduced a new bipartisan bill that aims to completely ban TikTok from operating in the country amid spying concerns.

Authorities in China have made a series of policy announcements regarding artificial intelligence (AI), including banning AI-generated images that are not labeled as such.

Chinese protestors angry with endless COVID restrictions have been flipping videos filmed on their phones and adding filters to avoid the government's online censors.

China has been accused of censoring maskless fans at the World Cup on state TV to maintain the illusion that the country's strict zero-COVID rules aren't dissimilar from the outside world.

As protests around China’s zero-Covid policy mount, police appear to be searching phones for apps like Instagram, Twitter, and Telegram, which are banned in the country, with the goal of stopping photos of the protests from being released.

A senior BBC cameraman was arrested and beaten up while covering anti-lockdown protests in China yesterday.

The United States Department of Justice today revealed that it had formerly charged two suspected Chinese operatives for plotting to disrupt the criminal investigation into Huawei.

DJI has opened its striking new Shenzhen, China headquarters which it describes as a creative "community in the sky."

Documentary photographer Francois Nadeau lives in Beijing, China, and has to have a COVID test almost every 48 hours. This gave him an idea for a project.

Cody Ellingham's project, Fantasy City by the Harbor, strips back the bustling city of Hong Kong to carve out quiet moments of introspection.

China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) has published a series of detailed images taken by its Tianwen-1 Mars probe that cover the entire surface of Mars.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has urged Google and Apple to ban TikTok from app stores for “its pattern of surreptitious data practices."

For photographer Nicoco, what was meant to be a brief photo project of a five-day lockdown in Shanghai quickly became two-month documentation of frustration, sadness, and boredom.

Photographer Anthony Reed was one of the last people allowed outside in Shanghai before a draconian lockdown for Covid-19 came into place in early April.

Thousands of hacked Chinese police photographs of interned Uyghurs have shed light on Beijing's treatment of its Muslim minority in Xinjiang.

The Chinese government is warning its citizens that foreign governments may trick them into becoming spies. Two photographers have recently been imprisoned for sending photos of military targets to foreign agents in exchange for cash.

Shanghai is in the midst of a COVID-19 surge and new drone footage shows the eerily empty streets of the normally bustling city of 26 million as it is locked down by the government in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus.

Sino Promise, the manufacturer of Kodak silver paper and photochemicals, may be struggling financially as it has increased its prices and is demanding full upfront payment from photo labs, following last year's warning that it was suffering from a supply shortage.