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Tibetan Found Guilty of Refugee Espionage in Sweden
A Tibetan refugee living in Sweden was last Friday found guilty of gathering information for China on fellow Tibetans in the region. The 49-year-old Tibetan man, Dorjee Gyantsan, has been sentenced to 22 months in jail. The AP’s Jan M. Olsen reports: The Sodertorn District Court, near Stockholm, convicted Dorjee Gyantsan, a 49-year old Tibetan who worked for a pro-Tibetan radio station, of “gross illegal intelligence activity” carried out from July 2015
MERICS Interview: How to Resist China’s Influence...
Last week, we published Part One of an interview with Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Director of the Research Area on Public Policy and Society at the Berlin-based Mercator Institute for China...
Chinese Embassy Lashes Out Over Australian TV Segment...
Amid heated debate over PRC influence in Australia, the country’s edition of 60 Minutes asked "Is China taking over the South Pacific?" in its broadcast on Sunday....
Exiled Lawyer Warns of “Long Arm” of Beijing’s Influence...
Exiled Chinese human rights lawyer and activist Teng Biao is calling attention to the “long arm” of China’s global influence operations, which have led to increasing...
Train Station Raises Concerns About HK Autonomy
Hong Kong’s Legislative Council yesterday approved a controversial bill that will allow Chinese authorities to enforce mainland law at the West Kowloon station, a new rail...
U.S. Unveils New “De Facto Embassy” in Taiwan...
With the world’s eyes focused on Singapore—where U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held a landmark summit this week—the U.S. quietly unveiled...
Minitrue: Delete News on Truck Drivers’ Strike...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect...
Politics
Translation: The Story of Ma Hu (Part 2)
Beijing-based women’s rights activist Xiao Meili recently introduced her
Economy
Minitrue: Hold Back on Fan Bingbing Tax Accusations
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities,
Culture & the Arts
Details Emerge About Xinjiang Reeducation Camp System
New reports, based on interviews with former detainees and data collected from
Sci-Tech
Facebook Under Fire for Data-sharing Agreements
With the Cambridge Analytica scandal still fresh in the public consciousness,
Environment
Government Provides Outline of Major Restructuring Plan
A new proposal put before the National People’s Congress realigns the
Human Rights
Translation: The Story of Ma Hu (Part 1)
Beijing-based women’s rights activist Xiao Meili recently shared part
Information Revolution
Translation: Open Letter on PKU #MeToo Case
Gao Yan was a Chinese literature student at Peking University who killed herself
The Great Divide
A Decade Later, Wenchuan Parents Still Seek Answers
On May 12, 2008, a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Wenchuan, Sichuan
Hong Kong
SCMP Confronted Over Forced Confession Coverage
In February, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post published an interview
Taiwan
Burkina Faso Cuts Ties with Taiwan
Weeks after the Dominican Republic switched its diplomatic allegiance from
Translation
Fake Official Account of the Week: @ComYouthLeague
On September 12, 2017, shortly after registering an account on Twitter, @ComYouthLeague
China & the World
How Overseas Chinese Students Navigate Ideology
At the Los Angeles Review of Books’ China Channel, Lu Xiaoyu, a doctorate
