Wenfang Tang4 days agoChinese rights advocate Xu Zhiyong on trial for state subversion amid secrecy and tight securityverified_publisherSouth China Morning Post - Mimi Lau,Guo RuiChina is putting two of the country’s most prominent civil rights leaders, Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi, through closed-door state subversion trials …
Wenfang Tang4 days agoHuman Rights Lawyer Who Challenged China’s Xi Has Secret Trialverified_publisherBloomberg - Colum MurphyChina held a secret trial for a human rights lawyer who called for President Xi Jinping to resign, as the ruling Communist Party continues to crush …
Wenfang Tang4 days agoWill China Use Health Apps to Crack Down on Dissent?foreignpolicy.com - James PalmerPublic patience with COVID-19 restrictions is fraying, and a sprawling network of control already exists. Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The …
Wenfang Tang6 days agoChina’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How.verified_publisherThe New York Times - Muyi Xiao, Paul Mozur, Isabelle Qian and Alexander CardiaA Times investigation analyzing over 100,000 government bidding documents found that China’s ambition to collect digital and biological data from its citizens is more expansive and invasive than previously known.
Wenfang Tang5 days agoChina’s ‘Very Dangerous Trajectory’verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Michael SchumanThe Communist regime has always been brutal, but it was at least predictable and, in its own way, practical. No longer. While most countries are trying to move past the pandemic and return to normal life, the Chinese government has kept COVID at the heart of its national policy. As China’s major …
Wenfang TangCongress may regulate U.S. investor activity in Chinaverified_publisherAxios - Dan PrimackWant to make a venture capital or private equity investment in China? The U.S. government might soon have a problem with that, and a mechanism to …
