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Investigative reporter at CNN, covering China and more. Personal account, RT ≠ endorsement. Signal: yong.11
Dec 28, 2024 24 tweets 6 min read
CNN just published a months-long investigation by my colleagues and me about China building or expanding more than 200 specialized detention centers nationwide as Xi Jinping widens his corruption purge. #liuzhi #留置中心
Read our report & a thread (1/12): edition.cnn.com/2024/12/28/chi… Previously, China used an extralegal detention system called “shuanggui,” #双规 but after it set up the National Supervisory Commission (NSC) and expanded the emit of the party’s internal graft watchdog to the entire public sector, it adopted a new detention regime, named “liuzhi,” or “retention in custody.” #留置 (2/12)
Jan 9, 2024 6 tweets 3 min read
We just published a report documenting the unprecedented number of Chinese migrants fleeing China for the US in the past year via the perilous journey in LatAm countries, which is often called "Walking Route"#走线 @David_Culver @simonelmc @CNN
Read on CNN: bit.ly/3NW4uqp
Image More than 31,000 Chinese crossed the Southern Border into the US in the first 11 months of 2023, that's roughly double the previous ten years combined. Image
Apr 3, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
我们刚刚发表了关于拼多多利用安卓系统漏洞进行“提权攻击”获取用户信息的调查。我们邀请来自多国的技术专家检验了拼多多2月份发布的6.49版本的安装包,其中3家机构详细检验了拼多多的代码,他们在调查中发现,1/n w/@Nectar_Gan @julianaliu
cnn.com/2023/04/02/tec… 拼多多能够通过攻击安卓系统漏洞提升应用权限,读取原本不能获得的系统信息和其他软件的信息,也可以修改系统设置,让它变得很难卸载。
@_CPResearch_ 的专家表示,拼多多意图将潜在恶意代码隐藏在看起来拥有正当名字的文件夹内,比如他们在名为com.google.android的文件夹中发现了拼多多的代码。