US trade hawks seize their chance to reset China relations
September 23, 2018Rana Foroohar Financial Times, 23 Sept 2018 Read original news herehttps://www.ft.com/content/a42e0402-bd7a-11e8-94b2-17176fbf93f5 It would be easy to see the latest $200bn round of US tariffs against China, set to go into effect on Monday, as just another provocative shot fired off … Continued
A Boiling Pot: The CCP’s Increasingly Intrusive Surveillance in Tibet
September 22, 2018China’s repressive campaign in Xinjiang is now well-known. But what about Tibet? For the past few years, the intensity and the diversity of China’s surveillance systems in Tibet have been growing to an unprecedented scale. Findings from numerous rights groups … Continued
Shinzo Abe Gets One Step Closer to Becoming Japan’s Longest-Serving Premier
September 21, 2018Sept. 20, 2018 TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won a commanding victory in a vote for the leadership of Japan’s governing party on Thursday, moving him closer to his dream of becoming the longest-serving prime minister in the country’s … Continued
Are Xi Jinping’s demands for Communist Party loyalty a bigger threat to China than Donald Trump’s trade war?
September 21, 2018Beijing’s centralisation campaign could end up sapping dynamism from the world’s second-biggest economy, critics say As Chinese officials prepared a response to US President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs, they spent hundreds of hours over the past few months on another … Continued
Cyberspace controls set to strengthen under China’s new internet boss
September 20, 2018Nectar Gan, 20 September 2018 Read original news here The new chief of China’s powerful internet regulator has vowed to “unswervingly” strengthen Communist Party control over the world’s largest online population. Zhuang Rongwen, who last month was appointed as director … Continued
Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers
September 19, 2018The Intercept, Ryan Gallagher, September 15 2018 Read original news here GOOGLE BUILT A prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users’ searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier for the Chinese government to monitor people’s queries, The … Continued
Climate change, battery boom threatens life on the ‘roof of the world’ — the Tibetan Plateau
September 19, 2018Climate change is sometimes discussed as a problem of the future, but on the “roof of the world”, it has already arrived. The remote, icy plains of the Tibetan Plateau — the highest and largest plateau on the planet — … Continued
Justice Department Has Ordered Key Chinese State Media Firms to Register as Foreign Agents
September 19, 2018By Kate O’Keeffe and Aruna Viswanatha Updated Sept. 18, 2018 3:50 p.m. ET The Justice Department ordered two leading Chinese state-run media organizations to register as foreign agents, according to people familiar with the matter, as U.S. officials ramp up … Continued
China Is Buying African Media’s Silence
September 18, 2018Azad Essa, Foreign Policy Read original news here I wrote about Chinese oppression in a South African paper. Hours later, they cancelled my column. It is official. After more than a decade of planning, setting up, and bankrolling African media, … Continued
The struggles of reporting on China’s secret Uighur ‘re-education camps’
September 17, 2018It is probably the most difficult place to report from in China. In the far-western province of Xinjiang, the Chinese campaign to smash Islamic extremism and independence sentiments has been taken to new extreme level. The Chinese deny it’s going … Continued