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Taiwan Plans Restrictions on Chinese Video Streaming

The Financial Times’ Edward White reports on plans to ban Chinese-owned video streaming services’ operations in Taiwan amid fears that they could be used as channels of political influence. The restrictions appear to stop short of Great Firewall-style blocks on cross-Strait access to the services, applying instead to their direct or indirect business on the island itself. Nevertheless, the news has prompted some concern about erosion of Taipei’s