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WeChat keeps banning Chinese Americans for talking about Hong Kong

The Chinese government is censoring WeChat users in the United States.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/20976964/chinese-americans-censorship-wechat-hong-kong-elections-tiktok
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China introduces mandatory face scans for phone users

China will require telecom operators to collect face scans when registering new phone users at offline outlets starting Sunday, according to the country's information technology authority, as Beijing...

https://news.yahoo.com/china-introduces-mandatory-face-scans-phone-users-054630976.html
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Chinese tech groups shaping UN facial recognition standards

Companies hope to gain an edge by laying the groundwork for global rules

https://www.ft.com/content/c3555a3c-0d3e-11ea-b2d6-9bf4d1957a67
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"Critics view the deal as a symbol of the problems associated with Chinese lending and the Belt and Road Initiative, but Beijing so far shows little sign of changing its mind." @SCMPNews& #39; @kinlinglo on #SriLanka #China https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3040982/sri-lanka-wants-its-debt-trap-hambantota-port-back-will-china">https://www.scmp.com/news/chin...
Sri Lanka wants its ‘debt trap’ port back – but will China listen?

Critics view the deal as a symbol of the problems associated with Chinese lending and the Belt and Road Initiative, but Beijing so far shows little sign of changing its mind.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3040982/sri-lanka-wants-its-debt-trap-hambantota-port-back-will-china
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China can shut off the Philippines' power grid at any time, leaked report warns

The Philippines' power grid is under the full control of the Chinese government and could be shut off in time of conflict, according to an internal report prepared for lawmakers seen by CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/25/asia/philippines-china-power-grid-intl-hnk/index.html
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Social Credit System, China mass surveillance tool, designed to enforc

China is developing a new high-tech system of mass surveillance and coercion aimed suppressing political dissent among its 1.4 billion people, while forcing American and Western businesses to conform

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/9/social-credit-system-china-mass-surveillance-tool-/
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Govt is “deleting data, destroying documents, tightening controls on information and has held high-level meetings in response to leaks of classified papers on its mass detention camps for Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities.” https://apnews.com/c1d08873154907be8a3dd93562d6785c">https://apnews.com/c1d088731...
AP Exclusive: China tightens up on info after Xinjiang leaks

The Xinjiang regional government in China’s far west is deleting data, destroying documents, tightening controls on information and has held high-level meetings in response to leaks of classified...

https://apnews.com/c1d08873154907be8a3dd93562d6785c
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The loans can "catch vulnerable, developing countries in & #39;debt-traps,& #39; depleting government coffers and sticking generations of taxpayers with gigantic bills, or else China& #39;s banks take ownership of the key strategic assets they built." https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/In-strategic-Djibouti-a-microcosm-of-China-s-14938761.php">https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/arti...
In strategic Djibouti, a microcosm of China's growing foothold in Africa

DJIBOUTI - Above ground in this tiny but strategically located country, signs of China's presence are everywhere. Chinese entities have financed and built Africa's biggest port, a railway to Ethiopia...

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/In-strategic-Djibouti-a-microcosm-of-China-s-14938761.php
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"China has previously sentenced prominent dissidents or activists in closed trials over holidays such as Christmas or announced multiple sentencings on the same day in an effort to minimize media attention."

@NPR @EmilyZFeng: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/30/792293186/china-sentences-christian-leader-to-9-years-prison">https://www.npr.org/2019/12/3...
China Sentences Christian Leader To 9 Years In Prison

Wang Yi is one of China's most prominent independent Christian leaders. Authorities arrested him a year ago in a relentless suppression of religious practice in China.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/30/792293186/china-sentences-christian-leader-to-9-years-prison
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“China& #39;s historical claim to [Indonesia’s Exclusive Economic Zone] on the grounds that Chinese fishermen have long been active in the waters referred to are unilateral, have no legal basis and have never been recognized by UNCLOS 1982.” https://twitter.com/kemlu_ri/status/1212278476436209670?s=21">https://twitter.com/kemlu_ri/...
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“[B]eyond grabbing a larger part of the value chain for itself, controlling the production of chips would also give China indirect control over myriad other industries, from social networking to personal computing.” #AI https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2020/01/02/china-is-slowly-moving-up-the-microprocessing-value-chain">https://www.economist.com/technolog...
China is slowly moving up the microprocessing value chain

Getting good at designing is easier than at manufacturing, however

https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2020/01/02/china-is-slowly-moving-up-the-microprocessing-value-chain
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“[I]t is extremely difficult for a Chinese person living in the mainland to hear arguments against the government’s claims. An argument against any is an argument against the whole.” https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/01/chinas-angry-young-nationalists/">https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/0...
China’s Youth Are Trapped in the Cult of Nationalism

Dreams of liberalization have clashed against the reality of successful propaganda.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/01/chinas-angry-young-nationalists/
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“There is also disturbing evidence that the Chinese government is mobilizing overseas Chinese students to protest or disrupt events, primarily through campus chapters of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/how-defend-campus-free-speech-china/604045/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc...
Colleges Should All Stand Up to China

American universities need to show Beijing—again and again—that they reserve the right to unfettered debate.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/how-defend-campus-free-speech-china/604045/
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“Any person living in China who might be following the Oscars would have no way of knowing that a Chinese film [ @OneChildNation, or 独生子女国度 or 独生之国] is a contender in this year’s documentary category.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-chinese-government-is-censoring-my-oscar-shortlisted-film-about-chinas-brutal-one-child-policy">https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-c...
How the Chinese Gov’t Is Censoring My Oscar-Shortlisted Film

Nanfu Wang, who co-directed the Oscar-shortlisted doc “One Child Nation” exploring China’s one-child policy, writes about how state media has scrubbed mentions of her film.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-chinese-government-is-censoring-my-oscar-shortlisted-film-about-chinas-brutal-one-child-policy
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“China appears to have been destroying traditional Uyghur cemeteries for several years as part of what critics describe as a broader, coordinated campaign. ... [T]he Chinese government didn& #39;t deny the cemetery destruction.” https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/02/asia/xinjiang-uyghur-graveyards-china-intl-hnk/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/0...
More than 100 Uyghur graveyards demolished by Chinese authorities

Uyghur poet Aziz Isa Elkun fled China's far western Xinjiang region more than 20 years ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/02/asia/xinjiang-uyghur-graveyards-china-intl-hnk/index.html
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The Cyberspace Administration of China, its top Internet regulator, has released rules including "encouragement" of online content creators to "Propagat[e] the [Communist] Party’s theoretical line, policies, and major central decisions." http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/06/mass-line-content-control/">https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/0...
Mass Line Internet Control

On December 20, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s top body for internet control and regulation, released new rules governing online information, setting out both generally...

http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/06/mass-line-content-control/
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“[T]he redaction proved that the Chinese Communist Party had extended its influence to make people self-censor... ‘Even for a group of so-called elites debating Hong Kong in a relatively safe environment, they still have this fear.’” #WUDC https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/01/09/worlds-biggest-debate-contest-axed-livestream-hong-kong-topic-chinese-spectators-staged-walkout/">https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/01/0...
World's biggest debate contest axed livestream of Hong Kong topic as Chinese spectators staged...

The world’s biggest debate tournament has been embroiled in a row over censorship after it hosted a debate on Hong Kong democracy but later removed all on traces of the match. Last Friday, four top...

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/01/09/worlds-biggest-debate-contest-axed-livestream-hong-kong-topic-chinese-spectators-staged-walkout/
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"One of #China& #39;s longest-running independent film festivals has decided to shut down against the backdrop of mounting government censorship, saying it was no longer possible to run a & #39;purely independent& #39; festival in the country." https://news.yahoo.com/curtain-falls-chinese-film-festival-censorship-intensifies-095523303.html">https://news.yahoo.com/curtain-f...
Curtain falls on Chinese film festival as censorship intensifies

One of China's longest-running independent film festivals has decided to shut down against the backdrop of mounting government censorship, saying it was no longer possible to run a "purely independ...

https://news.yahoo.com/curtain-falls-chinese-film-festival-censorship-intensifies-095523303.html
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New regulations from China& #39;s education ministry "stipulate that authors and editors of teaching materials must & #39;hold a firm political stance& #39; in line with that of the Communist Party of China." @SixthTone& #39;s @YujieXuett: http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005052/china-bans-imported-textbooks-for-primary%2C-middle-schools">https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005...
China Bans Imported Textbooks for Primary, Middle Schools

Textbook authors and editors are now required to hold political values that fall in line with the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party.

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005052/china-bans-imported-textbooks-for-primary%2C-middle-schools
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"& #39;Für jedes chinesische Unternehmen, privat oder staatlich, gilt: Wenn die chinesische Staatsführung Druck ausübt, wird man diesem nicht standhalten können.& #39; Ob mit oder ohne Sicherheitsgesetzgebung." @SZ: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/handelspolitik-unverhohlen-1.4745977">https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaf...
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China droht per Interview: Wenn die Bundesregierung Huawei-Technik beim Mobilfunkausbau ausschließe, bekäme Deutschlands Wirtschaft Probleme.

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/handelspolitik-unverhohlen-1.4745977
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"Chinese recipients of the [ @WorldBank] loan program requested tens of thousands of dollars for the purchase of facial recognition cameras and software, night-vision cameras, and other surveillance technology for use in Xinjiang schools." https://www.axios.com/china-world-bank-xinjiang-ai-huawei-surveillance-263c5753-1cb8-4366-aad3-c9be9b285fa5.html">https://www.axios.com/china-wor...
Scoop: China tried to get World Bank to fund surveillance in Xinjiang

It shows the moral hazard that faces any organization with operations in the region.

https://www.axios.com/china-world-bank-xinjiang-ai-huawei-surveillance-263c5753-1cb8-4366-aad3-c9be9b285fa5.html
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"And Wesleyan University ... said in October that it would no longer pursue a joint campus in China. & #39;It became clear that they were less interested in a liberal-arts approach than we initially thought.& #39;" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/01/stephen-schwarzman-china-surveillance-scholars-colleges/604675/">https://www.theatlantic.com/internati...
The Moral Hazard of Dealing With China

Academic institutions must grapple with the question of when engagement becomes complicity.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/01/stephen-schwarzman-china-surveillance-scholars-colleges/604675/
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CCP "exploit[s] foreign media outlets" via "periodic inclusion of a paid news-like advertising supplement from China Daily ... in the print editions of papers like" @washingtonpost, @nytimes @WSJ, and @latimes: @freedomhouse @Sarah_G_Cook. https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/beijings-global-megaphone-china-communist-party-media-influence-abroad">https://freedomhouse.org/report/sp...
Beijing's Global Megaphone

https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/beijings-global-megaphone-china-communist-party-media-influence-abroad
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The Chinese Communist Party’s former one-child policy “has been blamed for a severe gender imbalance—with males still outnumbering females by more than 30 million in the 2019 figures.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51145251">https://www.bbc.com/news/worl...
Chinese birth rate lowest in communist era

At the same time, China's population hit 1.4 billion in 2019 - but the gender imbalance remains.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51145251
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Two people say they were “recruited under false pretences. ... For actor Julia Hackstaff, of Vancouver, it all started with a promise of $100 for two hours of work in what she understood to be an appearance as an extra in a movie shoot.”

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5434613 ">https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.543...
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“A [ @UMNews] student has been arrested in China and sentenced to six months in prison for tweets he posted while in the U.S.,” in “dramatic escalation of the Chinese government& #39;s attempts to shut down free speech abroad.” @BethanyAllenEbr https://www.axios.com/china-arrests-university-minnesota-twitter-e495cf47-d895-4014-9ac8-8dc76aa6004d.html">https://www.axios.com/china-arr...
University of Minnesota student jailed in China for tweets critical of government

The student had posted images of a cartoon villain resembling Xi Jinping.

https://www.axios.com/china-arrests-university-minnesota-twitter-e495cf47-d895-4014-9ac8-8dc76aa6004d.html
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“Taiwan’s first reported case of a patient infected by a deadly #coronavirus spreading across Asia turns a spotlight on Beijing’s attempts to exclude the self-governing island from the World Health Organization [ @WHO].” #WuhanOutbreak https://www.wsj.com/articles/taiwan-virus-case-highlights-chinese-efforts-to-exclude-taipei-from-world-health-organization-11579634031">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
As Virus Spreads, Isolated Taiwan Risks Being a Loophole in War on Epidemics

Taiwan’s first case of a deadly coronavirus turns a spotlight on Beijing’s attempts to exclude the self-governing island from the World Health Organization.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/taiwan-virus-case-highlights-chinese-efforts-to-exclude-taipei-from-world-health-organization-11579634031
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“Beijing has responded faster to the new threat [ #coronavirus] than it did with SARS, but it still silences and punishes those who veer from the official line, with potentially damaging consequences.”— @LiYuan6 on #CoronaOutbreak https://twitter.com/LiYuan6/status/1220056852550971392">https://twitter.com/LiYuan6/s...
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"Chinese officials arrested citizens they accused of spreading rumors about the [ #coronavirus] illness online. Journalists have also reported being detained and threatened by Chinese authorities while covering the outbreak." @acollman: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-information-crackdown-on-wuhan-coronavirus-2020-1/">https://www.businessinsider.com/china-inf...
China spent the crucial first days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak arresting people who posted...

As the Wuhan coronavirus spread this month, Chinese authorities arrested people spreading "rumors" about the virus online and threatened journalists.

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-information-crackdown-on-wuhan-coronavirus-2020-1/
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"The chair of Harvard University’s chemistry department was arrested Tuesday on charges of allegedly lying to the U.S. about millions in Chinese funding he has received," misleading about "participation in China’s Thousand Talents Plan." https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvards-chemistry-chair-charged-on-alleged-undisclosed-ties-to-china-11580228768">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
Harvard Chemistry Chairman Charged on Alleged Undisclosed Ties to China

The arrest amounts to an escalation of U.S. efforts to counter what officials say is a plot by Beijing to raid U.S. universities to transform China into a scientific superpower.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvards-chemistry-chair-charged-on-alleged-undisclosed-ties-to-china-11580228768
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Texas A&M looked into Chinese government funding of its faculty members. “[T]hey were astounded at the results—more than 100 were involved with a Chinese talent-recruitment program, even though only five had disclosed their participation.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-funding-of-u-s-researchers-raises-red-flags-11580428915">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
China’s Funding of U.S. Researchers Raises Red Flags

The recent arrest of a Harvard chemistry professor is but one case of how Chinese funding for American researchers is creating tension between national security and academic freedom.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-funding-of-u-s-researchers-raises-red-flags-11580428915
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CCP “fine-tuning their ability to censor social media posts on domestic websites such as the Twitter-like Weibo blogging platform” and can even “surveil and automatically block parts of private conservations on chat apps such as WeChat." https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/02/05/corpses-and-mob-violence-chinese-social-medias-echo-chamber-fuels-coronavirus-fears.html">https://www.thestar.com/news/cana...
Corpses and mob violence: How China’s social media echo chamber fuels coronavirus fears

Public mistrust of government authorities in China has reached such a severe level, observers say, that many Chinese people have turn to alternative o...

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/02/05/corpses-and-mob-violence-chinese-social-medias-echo-chamber-fuels-coronavirus-fears.html
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李文良，安息吧。H/T @julianku https://twitter.com/julianku/status/1225827218074619904?s=20">https://twitter.com/julianku/...
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"Hollywood mixes art with commerce, but commerce always comes first. Films that tackle subjects insulting to China will not get made," and preemptive censorship is "commonplace." Via @emilyjashinsky https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/15/why-hollywoods-cozy-relationship-with-china-could-face-an-ugly-reckoning-in-the-2020s/">https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/1...
Hollywood’s Cozy Relationship With China Could Face An Ugly Reckoning

From the Golden Globes to 'Mulan,' the foreshocks of a fight over Hollywood's cozy relationship with China are trembling beneath our feet.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/15/why-hollywoods-cozy-relationship-with-china-could-face-an-ugly-reckoning-in-the-2020s/
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“[I]n a single breach, the [People’s Liberation Army of China] obtained sensitive personally identifiable information for nearly half of all American citizens.” From @TheJusticeDept indictment of four individuals involving @Equifax hack.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1246891/download?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery">https://www.justice.gov/opa/press...
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China& #39;s embassy in Denmark called a cartoon "an insult to China" and demanded paper/cartoonist "publicly apologise to the Chinese people." Danish Prime Minister& #39;s response to China: "we have freedom of expression in Denmark—also to draw." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51295225">https://www.bbc.com/news/worl...
Coronavirus: Denmark in cartoon bust-up with China

Danes reject Chinese calls for an apology over a cartoon showing the coronavirus on China's flag.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51295225
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"The disclosure of his speech indicates top leaders knew about the [ #coronavirus] outbreak’s potential severity at least two weeks before such dangers were made known to the public." https://apnews.com/194c2fc481010f210de218dd9e9901d6">https://apnews.com/194c2fc48...
Xi's early involvement in virus outbreak raises questions

BEIJING (AP) — A recent speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping that has been published by state media indicates for the first time that he was leading the response to a new virus outbreak from...

https://apnews.com/194c2fc481010f210de218dd9e9901d6
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“Quite simply, you don’t get to do business in China today without doing exactly what the Chinese government wants you to do. Period. No one is immune. No one.” — former Apple exec in @supchinanews. https://supchina.com/2020/02/12/the-age-of-cooptation-the-high-cost-of-doing-business-in-xis-china/">https://supchina.com/2020/02/1...
The age of cooptation: The high cost of doing business in Xi's China - SupChina

Doug Guthrie, former head of Apple University in China from 2015-2019, writes about the dark days ahead for multinationals in the People’s Republic, and tells a revealing story about how Huawei...

https://supchina.com/2020/02/12/the-age-of-cooptation-the-high-cost-of-doing-business-in-xis-china/
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#Huawei "funded a @Cambridge_Uni college study on global governance reforms in communications and technology" and a Cambridge forum, and "[t]he forum led to a white paper, published online this week, that referred favourably to Huawei." https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/huawei-paid-for-cambridge-study-to-launder-reputation-dr2fkbkj0">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/h...
Huawei paid for Cambridge study ‘to launder reputation’

Huawei has been accused of “reputation laundering” after it emerged that it funded a Cambridge University college study on global governance reforms in communications and technology.The Chinese

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/huawei-paid-for-cambridge-study-to-launder-reputation-dr2fkbkj0
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“The action taken against [ @joshchin @Chao_Deng @PhilipWen11] is an extreme and obvious attempt by the Chinese authorities to intimidate foreign news organizations by taking retribution against their China-based correspondents”— @fccchina. https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-expels-three-wall-street-journal-reporters-11582100355">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
China Expels Three Wall Street Journal Reporters

China revoked the press credentials of three Wall Street Journal reporters based in Beijing, the first time in the post-Mao era that the Chinese government has expelled multiple journalists from one...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-expels-three-wall-street-journal-reporters-11582100355
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“China’s government is exploiting its close relationships with the country’s most influential tech companies. By working with the companies, the government can tap computing power and expertise it lacks on its own.” Via @Liz_in_Shanghai. https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-turns-to-health-rating-apps-to-control-movements-during-coronavirus-outbreak-11582046508">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
China Turns to Health-Rating Apps to Control Movements During Coronavirus Outbreak

China’s technology giants are using health-rating systems to help authorities track the movement of millions of Chinese, adding a new and controversial tool in the country’s battle to contain the...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-turns-to-health-rating-apps-to-control-movements-during-coronavirus-outbreak-11582046508
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“Chinese authorities are using high-tech surveillance and sheer manpower to keep track of identities, locations and habits of individual Uighur Muslims,” with “almost no indication” they’re “targeting potential terrorists.”

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Chinese ambassador to Sweden: "We treat our friends with fine wine, but for our enemies we have shotguns." Reflects Chinese Communist Party that "is quicker to take offence, and retaliates more harshly." Via @gadyepstein https://twitter.com/gadyepstein/status/1230571393168871424">https://twitter.com/gadyepste...
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"Other countries, such as Japan and Taiwan, only allow most citizens to hold one nationality. The difference is that #China enforces this without the rule of law, and so can weaponise it to cancel other states’ claims." @FT& #39;s @YuanfenYang: https://www.ft.com/content/378988a4-594f-11ea-abe5-8e03987b7b20">https://www.ft.com/content/3...
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In airspace above international waters, "the People& #39;s Republic of China naval destroyer lased the American P-8A Poseidon aircraft in an act the U.S. deemed unsafe and a violation of international codes and agreements." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-says-chinese-ship-fired-laser-at-american-aircraft/ar-BB10uFbV">https://www.msn.com/en-us/new... H/T @BDHerzinger
US says Chinese ship fired laser at American aircraft

A Chinese Navy ship fired a laser at a U.S. surveillance aircraft flying over the Philippine Sea west of Guam, the Navy said Thursday, acknowledging the incident more than a week after it happened. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-says-chinese-ship-fired-laser-at-american-aircraft/ar-BB10uFbV
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A brave #WuhanCoronavirus detainee on Chinese Communist Party governance: “A secure life is not an option with a political system that does not give us freedom to speak out and that does not communicate with us truthfully.“ H/T @EmilyZFeng https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/03/809965742/personal-essay-from-wuhan-living-in-hell">https://www.npr.org/sections/...
Personal Essay: Coronavirus Lockdown Is A 'Living Hell'

A young person in the city where the novel coronavirus was first discovered reflects on how the government's response has forever changed her.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/03/809965742/personal-essay-from-wuhan-living-in-hell
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Chinese Communist Party, 2 Chinese telecoms, & #Huawei propose "radical change to the way the internet works to the UN," urging it to "take a & #39;long-term view& #39; and & #39;shoulder the responsibility of a top-down design for the future network.& #39;" https://twitter.com/TonyTassell/status/1243904235844100100">https://twitter.com/TonyTasse...
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"The Indonesian government appears to have backed away from confronting China, its largest trading partner. & #39;Our fishermen feel scared,& #39; one official said." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/world/asia/Indonesia-south-china-sea-fishing.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/3...
China Chases Indonesia’s Fishing Fleets, Staking Claim to Sea’s Riches

The Indonesian government appears to have backed away from confronting China, its largest trading partner. “Our fishermen feel scared,” one official said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/world/asia/Indonesia-south-china-sea-fishing.html
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“[T]he authorities have used records of private WeChat messages and other information shared on social media to identify and punish people. At least 452 people have been punished for ‘spreading rumours’ about the outbreak.” https://www.ft.com/content/760142e6-740e-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca">https://www.ft.com/content/7...
China, coronavirus and surveillance: the messy reality of personal data

Efforts to track cases have been haphazard but technology companies face pressure to hand over information

https://www.ft.com/content/760142e6-740e-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
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The Chinese Communist Party is "very good at manufacturing. They’re not very good at manufacturing consent." @orfonline& #39;s @samirsaran, via @dhume. https://www.wsj.com/articles/delhi-isnt-buying-beijings-coronavirus-hero-act-11585846214">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
Opinion | Delhi Isn’t Buying Beijing’s Coronavirus Hero Act

Anti-Chinese sentiment is sweeping the country amid fears that Covid-19 will soon do the same.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/delhi-isnt-buying-beijings-coronavirus-hero-act-11585846214
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Former Prime Minister of Denmark @AndersFoghR: “Until now, the world’s multilateral bodies have gone along with China’s pressure that Taiwan be excluded [from WHO]. But it has come at a cost to all of us, starting in this case, to China.” https://time.com/5805629/coronavirus-taiwan/">https://time.com/5805629/c...
Taiwan Has Been Shut Out of Global Health Discussions

Its participation could have saved lives

https://time.com/5805629/coronavirus-taiwan/
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"Chinese officials also haven& #39;t been afraid to use harsh rhetoric to keep the Maduro government in line. In a strident March 18 Twitter thread, the Chinese Embassy in Caracas ... [said] officials should & #39;put on a face mask and shut up.& #39;" https://www.axios.com/venezuela-coronavirus-aid-china-nicolas-maduro-97cde616-da30-4fb5-ab6f-17feee5a1aa7.html">https://www.axios.com/venezuela...
Venezuelan regime looks to China as coronavirus crisis approaches

Maduro is an international pariah, but Venezuela needs help.

https://www.axios.com/venezuela-coronavirus-aid-china-nicolas-maduro-97cde616-da30-4fb5-ab6f-17feee5a1aa7.html
In case you thought that the Chinese Communist Party& #39;s admonition to "shut up" was imagined or misconstrued. H/T @axios& #39;s @BethanyAllenEbr
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