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HSBC Caught Between China and West Over Huawei, HK Security Law

Posted by Samuel Wade | Aug 5, 2020

While TikTok has taken Huawei’s place as the main corporate focal point for escalating tensions between China and the United States, the difficulties of navigating this conflict are confronting companies across a much...

China Joins in Global Hacking Spike Amid Pandemic

Posted by Samuel Wade | Apr 2, 2020

Last week, U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye published a report on "one of the broadest campaigns by a Chinese cyber espionage actor we have observed in recent years," identifying its alleged perpetrator...

Huawei Faces New Charges And “Smoking Gun” Report

Posted by Samuel Wade | Feb 14, 2020

Two new blows against Chinese network equipment giant Huawei landed this week, in the form of additional U.S. legal charges and reports of “smoking gun” evidence that the company’s products constitute a serious...

U.K. Allows “High-risk” Huawei Limited 5G Role; Reactions

Posted by Samuel Wade | Feb 4, 2020

The British government last week unveiled a new policy on Huawei’s role in the U.K.’s nascent 5G cellular network amid suspicion of Chinese authorities’ influence over the firm. Huawei has been labeled a...

The Costs of the Belt and Road Initiative

Posted by Josh Rudolph | Jan 10, 2020

Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, a trillion dollar-plus global trade and development program that was unveiled in 2013 and enshrined into the Party constitution in 2017, has attracted both international excitement and...

Rights Group Wants Canada to Take Action Against CGTN’s Broadcast of Forced Confessions

Posted by Josh Rudolph | Dec 18, 2019

Much alarm has been expressed over China’s broadcasting of likely forced confessions aimed at chilling public activism and dissent in recent years. In 2018, Safeguard Defenders published an in-depth report on the methods,...

Plan for Facial Recognition on Beijing Subway Raises Concerns

Posted by cdtstaff | Nov 6, 2019

Chinese state media reported last week that Beijing’s subway system will soon use facial recognition technology to classify and divide passengers into groups for different security screenings. The news was announced at the end...