State Council Expands State Security Agents’ Powers
China’s State Council this week released new definitions of conduct punishable under the...
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Gao Yu Tweets Show Continued Surveillance
In late 2015, veteran journalist Gao Yu was granted a sentence reduction and medical release from...
Jiang Xue (江雪): You Look Like an Enemy of the State
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...
Chang Ping: Twitter and the “Great China Story”
The recent announcement of veteran tech executive Kathy Chen’s new position as...
Hotline Launched for Chinese Spy-Spotters
On the first birthday of China’s counterespionage law on Sunday, after a series of arrests...
No Trial Yet for Jailed Uyghur Scholar, Says Lawyer
Last week, the shroud of silence around the case of detained Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti sparked...
China’s New Strategy in Prosecuting Critics
At China Real Time, Josh Chin reports a 40% drop in the use of state security charges like...
State Security Officials Targeted in Zhou Probe
The investigation into allies and associates of Zhou Yongkang has expanded into the previously...
Xi Jinping: A First-Year Report Card
In a Xi Jinping “First Year Top Ten” list following the Communist Party’s Third...
Reform Plan Laid Out in Third Plenum Communiqué
The highly-anticipated Third Plenum meeting of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central...
WeChat, a Threat to All?
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...
The Tale of the Kidnapped Princeling
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...
Chinese State Security Aide Arrested as US Spy
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: Inside China’s “Black Jails”
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...
Chatting with China’s Security Apparatus
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,...
Hacking With Chinese Characteristics
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...
China Sentences 3 Webmasters of Uighur Sites
The New York Times reports on the sentencing of three Uighur webmasters: Three men accused of “endangering state security” for their role in maintaining popular Uighur-language Web sites have been sentenced to prison terms of 3...
Arrests Increased in Muslim Region of China
The International Herald Tribune has more on reports that the number of arrests for state security crimes in Xinjiang made a large jump last year: The official newspaper, the Procuratorial Daily, which is published by the...
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