On Chinese social media, the phrase “weak spot” (软肋, ruǎn lèi) is often used metaphorically to refer to family members—particularly children—used as leverage by public security, state security, or government authorities to...
The full report can be read in PDF form here. Below is a brief introduction. A CDT investigation details the efforts of police and other departments across China to utilize geographic information systems (GIS) to enhance and...
China’s State Council this week released new definitions of conduct punishable under the...
In late 2015, veteran journalist Gao Yu was granted a sentence reduction and medical release from...
In an essay shared on WeChat last month, investigative journalist Jiang Xue (江雪) commented on the increasingly tight restrictions on speech amid continuing security and ideological crackdowns by the Xi administration. The essay...
The recent announcement of veteran tech executive Kathy Chen’s new position as...
On the first birthday of China’s counterespionage law on Sunday, after a series of arrests...
Last week, the shroud of silence around the case of detained Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti sparked...
At China Real Time, Josh Chin reports a 40% drop in the use of state security charges like...
The investigation into allies and associates of Zhou Yongkang has expanded into the previously...
In a Xi Jinping “First Year Top Ten” list following the Communist Party’s Third...
The highly-anticipated Third Plenum meeting of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central...
Tencent’s widely used instant-chatting mobile app WeChat has, as previously reported, been accused of putting Chinese dissidents at risk by revealing user data to the government. From Nicola Davison at the Guardian: WeChat...
Aside from the privileges they enjoy as a result of their political and business connections, Chinese “princelings” may also be well immune to the pervasive state security apparatus. John Garnaut tells a story of how...
Reuters reports the arrest earlier this year of an aide in China’s State Security Ministry, who allegedly received hundreds of thousands of dollars to spy for the US. The official, an aide to a vice minister in China’s...
Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan, who last week encountered plainclothes state security police when attempting to interview a high-profile lawyer about proposed changes to China’s Criminal Procedure Law, follows a mother to...
As the National People’s Congress holds its annual session, Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan went to the offices of lawyer Pu Zhiqiang to interview him about proposed changes to the Criminal Procedure Law. At the office,...
Fast Company talks to Adam Segal of the Council on Foreign Relations about state-sponsored and “patriotic” hacking, cyberespionage and cybersecurity in China. FAST COMPANY: Could you give a short rundown of...
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