China's trading issues
China has been accused by countries including the USA and Australia of unfairly protecting its industries from global competition. This is against An organisation that deals with the global rules of trade between different countries. rules.
The USA claims that China unfairly blocks US exports and is keeping the value of the Chinese currency (the yuan) artificially low. This helps boost China's exports but makes imports to China more expensive. China, denies these claims.
There have also been disagreements between China and the US over 'Chinese state-sponsored cyber-espionage' (the stealing of intellectual property rights for commercial gain). At a meeting in September 2015 between Presidents Xi and Obama in Washington, talks in relation to 'cyber-espionage' highlighted sharp divisions between the leaders of the two countries.
The disagreement carried on during President Trump's term. I 2020, President Trump imposed tariffs on goods from China that added up to more than $360 billion (拢268 billion).
China retaliated by imposing tariffs on American products worth over $110 billion. (Source: 大象传媒 News)
China has also been in trade disputes over tariffs or bans on imports of products including Australian wine, Japanese steel and Lithuanian beef and dairy products.
China and technology issues
Both the UK and the US have taken steps to block the use of technology from the Chinese company Huawei. In the UK, mobile service providers have been prevented from purchasing new Huawei 5G equipment since December 31st 2020. In addition, all Huawei 5G kit must be removed from their networks by the end of 2027. (Source: 大象传媒 News)
A number of government's have expressed security concerns over use of Chinese apps including TikTok. Although TikTok is run by a private Chinese company, Bytedance, the governments of the USA, UK, Canada ans some EU countries have raised concern that the company could share user's data with the Chinese government. Several countries have banned TikTok from any device used for government work, or in some cases any device belonging to government employees.
In July 2020, India completely banned 59 Chinese phone apps, including WeChat and TikTok.
India's government claims these apps are using data illegally, and secretly collecting information from people's phones when they download the apps.