On Monday, the U.S. Department of Commerce proposed rules to ban Chinese technology from internet-connected vehicles in the U.S. The plan was unveiled by the department’s Bureau of Industry and Security after a seven-month...
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Regency, by Gauthier DELECROIX (CC BY 2.0)
Read MoreSeptember 23 marks the tenth anniversary of prominent Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti being sentenced to life in prison on unsubstantiated charges of “separatism” for his work advocating for better treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang...
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Shekou, Shenzhen, by QuantFoto (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read MoreWednesday’s fatal stabbing of a Japanese fifth-grader as he walked to his school in the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen—just months after a similar fatal stabbing at a Japanese school bus-stop in Suzhou—has prompted an...
Read MoreGerman auto manufacturer Volkswagen (VW) has courted controversy for maintaining a business presence in Xinjiang, despite documentation from the U.N. and other organizations of the CCP’s possible crimes against humanity,...
Read MoreA 10-year-old Japanese boy was stabbed on his way to school in Shenzhen on Wednesday, September 18. He died the following day. The attack occurred on the anniversary of the 1931 Mukden Incident, which precipitated Japan’s...
Read MoreThe Guangdong Provincial High Court denied the appeals of imprisoned human rights defenders Wang Jianbing and Huang Xueqin in a secretive trial held last week, without notifying their attorneys. The decision was decried as a...
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the t-shirts I didn’t buy for you. Great Wall of China, Badaling, by Dawn Danby (CC BY-NC-ND...
Read MoreThe first sentencing under Hong Kong’s new Article 23 national security law (officially called the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance) occurred this week, as a man was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment for wearing a...
Read MoreSong Binbin, perhaps the most infamous “Red Guard” of the Cultural Revolution, died at the age of 77 on Monday, September 16. Song, the daughter of one of the Party’s powerful “Eight Immortals,” was the leader of a Red Guard...
Read MoreWhile China’s athletes won glory in Paris at this year’s Olympics and Paralympics, there was widespread agreement on Chinese social media that the country’s reporters did not. Bloggers and athletes alike rolled...
Read MoreUyghur villages have been Sinicized in Xinjiang. Local communities have been displaced for state-sponsored infrastructure projects in Tibet. News editors have been convicted of sedition in Hong Kong. National elections have been...
Read MoreA recent WeChat post reveals that some Chinese schools and universities are using special software to identify and punish students who “scale the wall”—that is, circumvent China’s Great Firewall (GFW) to access overseas websites...
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Shanghai, P.R. of China – October, 2015, by Konrad Lembcke (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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