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26 May, 87 tweets, 37 min read
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“Chinese internet giant Tencent has reportedly been surveilling content posted by foreign users on its wildly popular messaging service WeChat in order to help it refine censorship on its platform at home.“ — @CNBC @ArjunKharpal

cnbc.com/2020/05/08/ten…
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"YouTube is automatically deleting comments that contain certain Chinese-language phrases [like '共匪' or '五毛'] related to criticism of the country’s ruling Communist Party (CCP)."

theverge.com/2020/5/26/2127…
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"[I]nstruct."

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General Secretary Xi "is taking bold steps on issues ... including Hong Kong, Taiwan, the South China Sea and a disputed border with India." Chinese Communist Party adviser: “Of course they see this as a strategic window of opportunity.”

wsj.com/articles/beyon…
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https://t.co/HhGutSfYbq
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https://t.co/3Mk8Zeg4RX
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(And read the whole thread.)

https://t.co/DkZFNc6TMO
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“China’s exploitation of the world’s fish stocks is far greater than previously thought”; it consumes over one-third of global catch "and is targeting the high seas or waters belonging to other countries after depleting its own stocks.”

thetimes.co.uk/article/giant-…
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"China is making fresh efforts to influence Chinese communities around the world to advance Beijing’s interests" through "[a] unit in China’s ruling Communist Party known as the United Front Work Department." @Kate_OKeeffe @alexjoske

wsj.com/articles/china…
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@BethanyAllenEbr: Company cites need "to comply with local law," "suggest[ing] Zoom closed the account due to concerns in China, which forbids free discussion of the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement." H/T @slowmohockey

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In a “stunning display,” “[t]wo of China’s most celebrated athletes have denounced the ruling Communist Party,” saying “It is the system that obliterates people’s sense of humanity.” @WSJ @ByChunHan

wsj.com/articles/chine…
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Twitter “removed more than 170,000 accounts tied to a Beijing-backed influence operation that deceptively spread messages favorable to the Chinese government, including about the #coronavirus.”

reuters.com/article/us-chi…
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China investing $1.4T in "next-generation technologies as it seeks to catapult the communist nation ahead of the U.S. in critical areas. ... Beijing seeks a global edge in construction of superfast cellular networks known as #5G."

wsj.com/articles/china…
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https://t.co/zZHZoGg5HT
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CCP General Secretary Xi “warned [US firms] they could be wounded in a trade war if they failed. ‘In the West you have the notion that if somebody hits you on the left cheek, you turn the other cheek. ... In our culture, we punch back.’” wsj.com/articles/the-s…
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[Read the entire thread. #HongKong #Article38]

https://t.co/Rjw5lj5zKS
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“[@CBP] officers detained a shipment of almost 13 tons of wigs and other human hair products suspected of being made through forced labor in Xinjiang, China.”

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“The intention may not be to fully eliminate the Uighur population, but it will sharply diminish their vitality. ... It’s not immediate, shocking, mass-killing on the spot type genocide, but it’s slow, painful, creeping genocide.”

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UK man "drugged and handcuffed to an iron chair inside a steel cage" forced to confess to bogus charges; "heavily edited version made to look like a news ‘interview’ with a bombshell ‘confession’ was broadcast around the world" on CCP TV.

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"China has been encroaching on Nepal’s land. This has been done gradually by the construction of inroads into several Nepalese territories with a motive to seize complete control. China occupied strategic areas in 11 places in #Nepal."

asianews.press/2020/06/25/gal…
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University of Kansas professor charged in scheme allegedly "designed to encourage the transfer of original ideas and intellectual property from U.S. university to Chinese government institutions."

www2.ljworld.com/news/ku/2020/j…
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Before, "the university simply listed the island as 'Taiwan,'" but it's now "Taiwan (Province of China)."

"The stakes for appeasing China are high. Huawei has granted $9.5 million in funding for research projects at UBC in recent years."

ubyssey.ca/news/taiwan-re…
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CCP's "Fox Hunt" program targets Chinese nationals abroad. CCP couldn’t find one target, so it visited target’s family in the U.S. "The message they said to pass on? The target had two options: return to China promptly, or commit suicide."

fbi.gov/news/speeches/…
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"Books by pro-democracy figures have been removed from public libraries in #HongKong in the wake of a controversial new security law. The works will be reviewed to see if they violate the new law."

bbc.com/news/world-asi…
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"The speed at which the hotel, with a rooftop pool, was transformed into a base for mainland intelligence agents is the latest sign of Beijing’s quickstep approach to enforcing new laws designed to rein in [#HongKong]." — @WSJ @DanStrumpf

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"Chinese companies are increasingly dominant across the maritime supply chain, aided by a complicated and opaque system of formal and informal state support that is unrivaled in size and scope." — @CSIS report

csis.org/analysis/hidde…
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"[S]enior Tatmadaw leaders now say confidentially that China is not to be trusted, and in fact continues to support some ethnic insurgent groups in #Myanmar, while at the same time meddling in the peace process." — @IrrawaddyNews 🇲🇲

irrawaddy.com/opinion/editor…
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"[T]his new power will allow authorities in Hong Kong to arbitrarily detain anyone who enters Hong Kong who may have previously voiced criticism of the Chinese Communist Party."

vice.com/en_us/article/…
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"Xi’s vision of total party rule includes the silencing of any opposing thought, ethnicity, workers, regional freedoms, or faith, not just within China but worldwide. ... Xi’s words are frighteningly boring—emphasis on the frightening."

foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/17/chi…
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Case “appears to be part of a program conducted by the [CCP People’s Liberation Army] . . . to send military scientists to the United States on false pretenses with false covers or false statements about their true employment.”

https://t.co/epmUTpHdbo
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“Hong Kong, Xinjiang, the South China Sea, Huawei . . . . It is hard not to feel like we have been given a preview of what sole Chinese global leadership would look like. This puts all of its neighbours on guard at once.”

https://t.co/mg49odB0Vq
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"Every day since Nov. 17, 2014, ProPublica has been testing whether the homepages of international news organizations are accessible to browsers inside #China. Of the 18 in our test, 14 are currently blocked."

projects.propublica.org/firewall/ Image
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CCP military base “specifically intended to capture and sometimes kill refugees sits at...an icy pass over the border between Tibet and Nepal. These surveillance efforts could be aided greatly by a high-mountain 5G network.”
slate.com/technology/202… @TomMJohnsonJr
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https://t.co/jGAqqic6jS
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Chinese Communist Party reclassifies body of water in the South China Sea between Hainan and Paracels Islands from "offshore" to "coastal," with an aim "to bring as much of the disputed waterway under its control as possible."

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"While I was busy fulfilling my end of the bargain, the joint venture applied for 510 Chinese patents for my designs, technologies, trade secrets and engineering developments." Most patent filings "didn’t even list me as the inventor." wsj.com/articles/how-c…
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In "unusually strong statement," Malaysia rejects “China’s claims to historic rights, or other sovereign rights or jurisdiction, with respect to the maritime areas of the South China Sea" involving infamous "‘nine-dash line’.” scmp.com/week-asia/poli…
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https://t.co/MrFulK9O8I
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https://t.co/5m9nNQFawA
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“Even with some relief, Africa, facing its worst recession ever and with few other sources for fresh loans, will likely remain deeply indebted to China for decades.” @alonsosotoj and @mattstephenhill in @business @BW.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Report commissioned by Papua New Guinea "catalogues Beijing's efforts to spy on the Pacific nation" & suggests "deliberate effort by Huawei to deploy lax cyber security," with "high confidence that data flows could be easily intercepted."

afr.com/companies/tele…
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"[O]fficial Chinese statements suggest a willingness by China to blur humanitarian and foreign-policy objectives that include garnering support from countries on Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea."—@Chao_Deng H/T @esaagar

wsj.com/articles/china…
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H/T @JerryDunleavy
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“China’s internet regulator has sought out contractors to help it ‘make use of overseas social media platforms to develop online propaganda on major themes,’ procurement documents show.”

nytimes.com/2020/06/08/tec…
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"China is targeting top scientific and technological expertise in the U.S. and other advanced nations through an expanding network of 600 talent-recruitment stations world-wide." — @Kate_OKeeffe and @aviswanatha in @WSJ.

wsj.com/articles/how-c…
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Chinese researcher, "accused of lying about holding the equivalent rank of major in the PLA, told investigators he was under orders from a supervisor in China to study the exact layout of the lab where he worked to replicate it at home."

wsj.com/articles/chine…
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"Five years ago, China ranked 90th in the report. Last year, its ranking climbed to 31st." @JoshZumbrun in @WSJ (H/T @JChengWSJ)

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"Tattooed arms, backs and legs are fast becoming common sights in [China's] biggest cities. ... The Communist Party is not among those who appreciate their work, instead viewing tattoos as undesirable avatars of hip-hop culture."

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CCP "tightly controls access to the market, excluding films that include content it dislikes." So "[f]ilm studios now go out of their way to ensure their movies avoid topics or depictions of China that might fall foul of China's censors."
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"Mongolians feel that language, the last stronghold of their national identity, is about to be wiped out by this new [CCP] policy. That’s why Mongolians feel urgency: If we lose this, we lose everything. We cease to exist."

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#Mulan
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"The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) violated the Line of Actual Control several times in the past two months, and in several places across the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Uttarakhand."

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"China’s Communist Party is looking to strengthen its leadership and control of the country’s growing private sector and its employees by extending the work of the United Front further into the business community." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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H/T @onlyyoontv @CNBC @CNBCi

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“According to the new provisions, private firms will need a certain amount of CCP registered employees. ... Communication channels will be set up between private business and the party to report back on progress and other matters.”

asiatimesfinancial.com/ccp-announces-…
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“China is pushing growing numbers of Tibetan rural laborers off the land and into recently built military-style training centers where they are turned into factory workers, mirroring a program in the western Xinjiang region.”
reuters.com/article/us-chi…
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H/T @EmilyZFeng
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cc @SenTomCotton
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“The heads of these [content policy and moderation] hubs report to a global head of trust and safety in Beijing, a Chinese woman known inside ByteDance by the pseudonym Yuyi F, with few people at the company aware of her real name.” H/T @EmilyZFeng
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"Pressure has been exerted by China on the UK Government to retain the presence of Huawei in its 5G infrastructure through both covert and overt threats." — @CommonsDefence Security of #5G Report.

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"Chinese diplomats showed up at the reception uninvited and sought to photograph guests ... to intimidate its rivals and those who support them." And Beijing "complained that a cake at the event was decorated to look like Taiwan’s flag." nytimes.com/2020/10/19/wor…
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"This is the China Mr. Xi is building: a new type of great power that combines autocratic government and high-tech social control with a pervasive hyper-nationalism to drown out dissent." — @Chao_Deng and @lizalinwsj in @WSJ.

wsj.com/articles/in-xi…
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#HongKong pro-democracy legislators quit after Beijing ousts 4 colleagues as supposed threat. Resignations reduce "once-feisty legislature to a gathering of Chinese central government loyalists, effectively ending pluralism in the chamber." bangkokpost.com/world/2017947/…
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"'Xi doesn’t care about if you made any of those rich lists or not,' said a senior Chinese official. 'What he cares about is what you do after you get rich, and whether you’re aligning your interests with the state’s interests.'"

wsj.com/articles/china…
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“Chinese state media have now been strongly pushing the idea that the new study by the National Cancer Institute proves that the contagion likely started in Italy, not China.” H/T @BrendanCarrFCC
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"On February 10, when China reported 2,478 new confirmed cases nationwide, the documents show Hubei actually circulated a different total of 5,918 newly reported cases." — Report from @npwcnn #COVID #COVIDー19

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Case shows "China’s strategy of cultivating relationships that may take years or even decades to bear fruit. The Chinese Communist Party knows that today’s mayors and city council members are tomorrow’s governors and members of Congress."
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"It’s the deliberate consequence of the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, just recently renewed, that gives the Communist state extraordinary say over the selection of Catholic bishops—and whose terms Rome insists on keeping secret." wsj.com/articles/the-s…

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“Quite simply, you don’t get to do business in China today without doing exactly what the Chinese government wants you to do. Period. No one is immune. No one.” — former Apple exec in @supchinanews.

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China's embassy in Denmark called a cartoon "an insult to China" and demanded paper/cartoonist "publicly apologise to the Chinese people." Danish Prime Minister's response to China: "we have freedom of expression in Denmark—also to draw."

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