Name: 谷歌被指控在中國的行動中叛國（Google Accused of “Treason” Over China Ops）
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That and more on this week's China news headlines.

Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and billionaire tech investor,

has questioned Google's “seemingly treasonous decision”

of working with China on artificial intelligence.

Thiel made those comments at the National Conservatism Conference.

is that Google is working with Communist China,

but not the US military on its breakthrough AI technology.”

Now Google has denied working with China's military.

However, their work in China is still benefiting China's military.

have been working with Chinese universities,

researching and developing what's called “dual use” technology.

That's technology that has both civilian and military use.

Like these touch screens that can also be used for jet fighters.

And even President Trump said his administration will “take a look.”

Now Peter Thiel is not a disinterested third party.

He's a founding board member of Facebook,

which just happens to be one of Google's main competitors.

But just because he'd be happy to see Google go down,

doesn't mean he's wrong about what Google's doing in China.

Let's just also keep an eye on what Facebook

and other US tech companies are doing in China.

But Google may be trying to win some good karma.

Or at least one Google security employee is.

Google has warned Hong Kong protest champion Joshua Wong

that he needs to watch out for government backed hackers.

Wong posted the warning on his Twitter account.

Now Google didn't say which government to watch out for.

Hong Kong has been engulfed in protests over the past month.

People there are afraid the Chinese Communist Party

But there's one serious flaw with these protests.

Which is why after we ate dinner at New Town Plaza,

Shelley had the brilliant idea they should start holding protests inside,

because of the delightful air conditioning.

Well, someone must have been paying attention.

Ok, so the protesters didn't want to go to the mall.

Or at least that's what they told their parents.

Earlier in the day, there was a protest march to Sha Tin,

And then riot police showed up and chased the protesters into this high-end mall.

Probably because they wanted everyone to enjoy

the cool, refreshing air conditioning inside.

Definitely nothing bad is about to happen...

Organizers say there were more than 100,000 people at the protest on Sunday.

I don't know what's accurate, but either way,

that's a lot of people to fit in that shopping mall.

Which turned into a pitched battle between police and protesters,

after police trapped protesters in the mall and wouldn't let them leave.

The amazing part is, there was no looting.

And can I just say how rare it is for a protest inside a mall

Police say they arrested 37 protesters and 11 policemen were injured.

In this footage from Hong Kong Free Press,

you can see what appears to be a journalist intervening in protesters

And then dozens more journalists mob the guy for pictures.

The Hong Kong government has of course condemned the violence.

One of the protesters' demands is for Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam

Well, according to the Financial Times, she tried.

But “Beijing has refused to let her stand down.”

The Financial Times says it's because Beijing considers

the situation in Hong Kong to be her fault,

and that no one else would want to step into her shoes.

But I think the real reason is that the Chinese Communist Party

doesn't want to set a precedent that protesting can get a leader to step down.

Not that anyone would ask that of Xi Jinping.

thousands of older Hongkongers marched through the streets

in what was called a “silver haired” protest against the extradition bill.

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谷歌被指控在中國的行動中叛國（Google Accused of “Treason” Over China Ops）

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