Soon after Meng's arrest, Trump told Reuters: \"If I think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made - which is a very important thing - what's good for national security, I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary.\"

According to media reports, the US had asked China to close down its Consulate General in Houston within 72 hours, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleging that it was a hub of spying and intellectual property theft\"

The State Department said it ordered the consulate closed within 72 hours after alleging that Chinese agents have tried to steal data from facilities in Texas

Chinese government intends to route the benefits of its venture capital investments as well as civilian innovation for China's defence sector, raising questions over the intent of Chinese investments in India

Early this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had said the US may ban TikTok

The 59 banned apps, which include TikTok and Alibaba's UC Browser, were asked whether they acted at the behest of any foreign government to edit, promote or demote any content

The U-turn by the Trump administration comes following a nationwide outrage and a series of lawsuits filed by a large number of educational institutions, led by Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and later joined by a California public school and coalition of 17 states.

\"The kids who are using TikTok -- and it can be a lot of fun -- but there are a lot of other social media platforms they could use. TikTok is getting facial recognition on you,\" US NSA Robert O'Brien said

Many are saying Britain has been far too complacent and naive in thinking it could reap economic benefits from the relationship without political consequences

The IT Ministry has sought details about, \"unauthorised data access\" by the banned Chinese firms, which could lead to espionage/surveillance like activities

The U.S. telecommunications regulator voted in November 5-0 to issue the declaration and proposed requiring rural carriers to remove and replace equipment from the two Chinese companies from existing U.S. networks

Assange was arrested last year after being evicted from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he had sought refuge to avoid being sent to Sweden over allegations of rape and sexual assault

According to MEA representatives, the staff at the Pakistan High Commission has \"engaged in acts of espionage and maintained dealings with terrorist organisations\".

Neither country has a permanent ambassador in place and in the last month, each has accused the other of the illegal detention and torture of diplomats

Alphabet Inc's Google said it removed more than 70 of the malicious add-ons from its official Chrome Web Store after being alerted by the researchers last month

Experts suspect foul play as this incident comes ten days after New Delhi expelled two Pakistani diplomats on espionage charges, as mentioned in a report in IANS

Citizen Lab, in its probe ,has found that an organisation targeted thousands of people and hundreds of institutions across six continents. It concluded that most of these hacks were linked to one particular company, West Delhi-based BellTroX

Sumit Gupta's company is officially an independent firm of \"transcriptionists, designers, developers\" but its secret hacking operations spanned across Europe and US and targeted hundreds of organisations and thousands of individuals

New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the United States including private equity giant KKR and short seller Muddy Waters, according to three former employees, outside researchers, and a trail of online evidence

The Trump campaign has been briefed that foreign actors unsuccessfully attempted to breach the technology of our staff,\" the campaign said in a statement