The Trump administration is looking into the security protocols of U.S. video game companies wholly or partially owned by China’s Tencent, the world’s biggest games publisher, Bloomberg reported. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., which reviews international transactions on national security grounds, has sent letters to some companies including Tencent’s wholly owned U.S....
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