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#488 - TikTok CEO’s Ties to China Questioned & Theatre Company’s New Name “Disrespectful”?


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TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi was grilled by US senators on his personal ties to China; one senator even asked pointedly about the status of his Singapore citizenship. Some decried the line of questioning as “racist”, but was it really? Elsewhere, the Singapore Repertory Theatre recently announced that it is changing its name to Singapore Theatre Company, to the consternation of some in the local theatre community. Was it just much ado about nothing, or is there more to this disquiet?

(00:00) Intro
(04:53) TikTok CEO’s Ties to China Questioned
(28:19) Theatre Company’s New Name “Disrespectful”?
(49:39) One Shiok Comment
(52:53) One Shiok Thing

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TikTok CEO’s Ties to China Questioned

  • Cotton defends pressing TikTok CEO on ties to Chinese Communist Party
  • TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is Singaporean, not Chinese. Somebody please convince Senator Tom Cotton
  • Accusations, tears and rants: 5 takeaways from today’s tech CEO hearing | CNN Business
  • Video of Tom Cotton in Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
  • Kids aren’t safe on social media, lawmakers say. Tech CEOs are back in DC this week to pledge (again) that they’ll handle it
  • Tech CEOs told ‘you have blood on your hands’ at US Senate child safety hearing, International - THE BUSINESS TIMES
  • [2017] Opinion | What Singapore is saying by expelling China hand Huang Jing
  • [2020] How a Singaporean man went from NUS PhD student to working for Chinese intelligence in the US - CNA


Theatre Company’s New Name “Disrespectful”?

  • ‘No company can be Singapore Theatre Company’: SRT’s rebrand draws flak from theatre community
  • Singapore Repertory Theatre changes name to Singapore Theatre Company


One Shiok Comment

  • Comment by SnooDingos316
  • Comments on TikTok video 


One Shiok Thing

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  • Jim Cornette on the Vince McMahon scandal


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