contingency

Bytedance asks TikTok to draw up contingency plans in case it needs to shut down in U.S.

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Chinese parent company ByteDance has urged TikTok to draw up contingency plans should it need to shut down its U.S. operations, even as it works toward divesting them, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. ByteDance has been ordered by President Donald Trump to divest sell its US arm, amid security concerns over the … Read more

Whitehall bungling row over coronavirus contingency planning

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Whitehall officials drawing up the government’s disaster contingency plans ‘never considered senior ministers being taken out one by one by disease’ Whitehall disaster plan ‘did not consider scenario of losing ministers one by one’ Plan had focused on what happens if many ministers ‘taken out’ in military strike  Lack of planning for a disease sweeping … Read more