Earlier this month, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had stated that Washington and its allies are in "active conversations" about how to approach the Beijing Olympics.
Yahoo’s departure from coincides with the implementation of a new data privacy law that grants sweeping authority to officials to access personal information collected by tech firms.
China has been using "debt-trap diplomacy" to wield outsize influence on borrowing countries and coerce them into coughing up physical and illegal assets.