{"id":3205,"date":"2023-04-07T02:40:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T02:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/china-urges-australia-to\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T02:44:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T02:44:52","slug":"china-urges-australia-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/china-urges-australia-to\/","title":{"rendered":"China urges Australia to treat all firms, including TikTok fairly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (Reuters) &#8211;     China said Australia&#8217;s &#8220;discriminatory&#8221; ban on TikTok from all federal government-owned devices harmed the interests of Australian businesses and the public, urging Canberra to treat all firms fairly, a commerce ministry statement said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Australia treated TikTok differently from other social media platforms and adopted discriminatory restrictive measures, which are not conducive to maintaining Australia&#8217;s national security,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>China also urged Australia to create a favourable environment for bilateral economic and trade cooperation. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Ellen Zhang, Judy Hua and Liz Lee; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/china-urges-australia-to\/file-photo-file-photo-illustration-shows-tiktok-app-logo\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTechnologyNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ36028-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ36028-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (Reuters) &#8211; China said Australia&#8217;s &#8220;discriminatory&#8221; ban on TikTok from all federal government-owned devices harmed the interests of Australian businesses and the public, urging Canberra to treat all firms fairly, a commerce ministry statement said on Friday. &#8220;Australia treated TikTok differently from other social media platforms and adopted discriminatory restrictive measures, which are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTechnologyNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ36028-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}