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A Boiling Pot: The CCP’s Increasingly Intrusive Surveillance in Tibet
China’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
Sept. 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?
Beijing’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
Nectar 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
The 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
Climate 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
By 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
Azad 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’
It 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
Censorship, Geopolitical Time Bombs, and China’s Islamophobia Problem
Matt Schrader, The Jamestown Foundation, Read original news here China has a serious and worsening Islamophobia problem. While relations between China’s Muslim minorities and its Han majority have been fraught since 2009’s deadly inter-ethnic riots in the far western city … Continued
“Eradicating Ideological Viruses”: China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims
Human Riughts Watch, Setpember 2018 Read the original news here Summary The training has only one purpose: to learn laws and regulations…to eradicate from the mind thoughts about religious extremism and violent terrorism, and to cure ideological diseases. If the … Continued
The People’s Republic of Cruelty
By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist A regime at war with the human soul will eventually lose. Every now and then, when credulous Western observers aren’t fawning over China’s high-speed rail network or calculating the precise moment when its economy will become the world’s largest, a news story breaks through to read more →
Trouble brewing in Communist China
The Northlines, 15 September 2018, G Ramachandram Read original news here All is not well with China. The Chinese Communist Party is the State and vice versa. What we see is absolute power exercised by President Xi Jinping, both as … Continued
One Nation Under Xi? This is why Christian Persecution in China is Escalating
Gary Lane, CBN news, 09-14-2018 Read original news here This summer, Christians in China are experiencing an escalating wave of persecution unseen since Mao’s Cultural Revolution. “We’re seeing more persecution or a higher level of persecution,” said The Voice of the … Continued
His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet admires Sweden for its advocacy of democracy and liberty
Dharamshala, India — “I don’t admire the USA for its nuclear weapons but for its advocacy of democracy, freedom and liberty, I hope here in Sweden you can keep these values alive,” His Holiness the Dalai Lama told members of … Continued