Hunter: Some books just got pushed, especially those that were printed in China because they are not going to be ready for the holidays. If we had preorders, we would have to tell all our customers. We don't like having to do it, but we try to stay on top of it and communicate to our customers as soon as possible what's going on.

So Jeremy, just a few weeks ago you wrote that nearly half of American adults support a ban on TikTok on account of its ties to China, according to new Reuters and Ipsos study. So what's the latest here? What's your take on all of this, Debbie and Jeremy? Jeremy Goldman:. It's a really interesting thing ban when you talk about TikTok ban, then my first question is, which ban?

The Chinese tech giant produced $1 billion in player expenditures across its mobile games, a 16% increase from the year prior, per Sensor Tower. It could easily create a library of games exclusive to TikTok users. Search: TikTok is already nipping at the heels of YouTube in user time spent, and the service beat Google as the most visited website in 2021.

Only China currently bests the UK as a retail ecommerce leader. In 2022, 35.9% of total retail sales in the UK will be ecommerce sales, while that figure will be 45.3% in China. In terms of digital buyers, though, the UK actually tops the pile, with 83.8% of the population having made at least one digital purchase in the calendar year.

Chinese ecommerce giant JD.com said it would release its own version of ChatGPT—ChatJD—specifically for enterprise use by the retail and finance industries. Companies will be able to use ChatJD to generate content including marketing copy and product summaries, power chatbots, and understand user intent, among other applications.

So the first one is the return of e-commerce advertisers, especially from China. So these are companies based in China that are trying to reach people outside of China with their advertising. So those were called out as being a very strong category for Meta. So that's the first reason.

For example, the percentage of physicians who rated digital tools such as video chats and scheduled webinars and webcasts as preferred engagement options more than doubled from pre-pandemic to May–June 2021, according to survey data gathered from physicians in the US, Germany, and China and published by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in September 2021.

Western fintechs like US-based PayPal and UK-based Revolut are rebundling services to emulate the successes of early super apps, such as China-based WeChat and AliPay. Lydia’s new trading feature is part of its own super app strategy and will likely draw on its $131 million Series B funding from December to continue expanding its product suite. However, our matrix covered 57 features per super app.

China’s National Security Law, which came into effect in Hong Kong in June 2020, effectively penalizes the expression of opinions that the Chinese government considers detrimental to its increasingly firm control of the former British colony.

And then if people knew TikTok's parent company ByteDance was based in China, if they knew that it was in China, then they were for the ban. If they didn't know it was in China, then they were against the ban. Two out of three people knew that ByteDance was a Chinese-based company. And finally, really interesting, didn't matter based on political party.

Especially in regards to countries like China. And I think he used there's less of a concern there, but some other countries like China. Marcus Johnson:. Yeah. Yeah, that's the balancing act, isn't it? And Jacob points that out.

The US government has national security concerns about TikTok and its ties to China, demanding its Chinese parent ByteDance sell its stake in TikTok or face a possible ban. America is worried about the app's Chinese owners collecting data on US users and potentially influencing the contents, the article reminds us. But Jeremy, the most interesting sentence in this article is what and why.

The bigger picture: The tranche of regulatory proposals reflects the Australian government’s desire to retain control over the country’s evolving payments system—a sentiment shared by other governments, including in China and Europe. Related content: Check out our “Blockchain in Payments” report and the “The Buy Now, Pay Later Report” to learn about the emerging payment technologies.

The UK is one of the world’s most mature retail ecommerce markets: This year, 36.3% of total UK retail sales will be digital sales, a share second only to that of China. Physical retail still has an important role to play, though, with some digital-only players beginning to see reduced demand now that in-store shopping has resumed.

But this could still change, especially if tensions rise between the US and China regarding Taiwan, an international center for chip manufacturing. There’s an excess of the types of chips used to power PCs but a shortage of other kinds of chips, such as those used in vehicles and industrial applications, per an August 2022 Bloomberg article.

The US, there's this call for regulation, but the US does not want to fall behind China, especially on the AI front. And so while we will see some efforts to regulate it, I think that the emphasis is actually going to be on innovation. Marcus Johnson:. Yeah. Yeah, you were pointing out in an article you just wrote, that's a tough balancing act that they've got to try to figure out.

That’s partly because social commerce has been slower to roll out in the UK than in the US and China, the world’s other top ecommerce nations. Another headwind is the relative maturity of ecommerce in the UK, where consumers and brands already have well-established digital habits that could take time to change.

Japan is still in the early stages of cashlessness compared with neighboring countries like China, where proximity mobile payment users accounted for more than half (62.7%) of its population in 2021, per Insider Intelligence forecasts. Moving in before Japan’s cashless sector matures can give Worldline an early mover advantage.

As things get better, they become more competitive globally and can start winning bids that used to go to China, Vietnam, or other places. Because we’re managing robots for many factories, we benefit from the economies of scale. So it’s cheaper for us to buy, run, maintain a robot, and hold inventory because we’re doing it for 100 factories.

Big ones that have been thrown around as targets for them are places like Argentina and China. They've specifically been trying to get a lot of these new users and newer markets into podcasting to make it as big of a new source or popular media format as it has become in the US and UK. So this shows that they're having some success breaking into those newer markets. Marcus Johnson:. Yeah.

You can tune in tomorrow to learn how Chinese companies are influencing US retail as Reimagine Retail hosts Sarah Lebow speaks with analysts Sky Canavus and Man-Chung Chueng. Oh, that's the whole... That's the end of the sentence. It felt like I was going to say more. The end. Sorry, I just looked at the camera. You do look a bit like a Sith lord with that. Victoria was right.

Issues included TikTok’s ties to China, its effect on young users, and the spread of election misinformation on the platform. Anti-TikTok sentiment among media executives also grew. The app wasn’t immune to broader slowdowns within the ad industry either.

Then it's an interesting question of, "This is a whole lot of transactional data that is with a Chinese company. Does that not matter rather than just watching me open up people's makeup halls on TikTok?" All of this should, in theory, matter.