The Chinese authorities have banned Tibetans from undertaking the pilgrimage to Gang Rinpoche (Mount Kailash), the sacred mountain, for religious purposes, in particular to pray or prostrate. By contrast, Chinese nationals can easily travel to Mount Kailash for tourism purposes, without this carrying any great spiritual significance or indicating any great devotion.

Sun Lei told the General Assembly’s Third Committee that the UK, Australia, Japan, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania were “self-appointed human rights teachers” with no standing to criticize Beijing. He cited the end of extreme poverty, a middle-income group of over 400 million, and “whole-process people’s democracy” with over 90% support. He pointed to the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law as proof that Xinjiang and “Xizang” enjoy equality. Then he listed poverty in Britain and discrimination against the Ainu in Japan.

The speech did not mention the camps. It renamed Tibet. It called the system that built the surveillance state a democracy with 90% support.

China is not answering the charges. It is changing the subject.

The Chinese government pays people to steal technology and one of its prominent tech companies appears to be using the same strategy.

Huawei's Chinese management offered rewards for confidential information collected from other companies. The company even had a competition management group that reviewed all of the collected information.

Interesting to note that Huawei exists as a company because technology was allegedly stolen from the Canadian company Nortel in the 90s.

Seven alleged charges against Xi Jinping. A three-way power struggle inside the CCP. And a possible showdown at the upcoming Fifth Plenum. Reports claim an anti-Xi faction is preparing a case against him, targeting his military purges, economic failures, COVID policies, and constitutional changes. Meanwhile, the sudden investigation of former Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan raises fresh questions about shifting political alliances. Are Xi’s rivals preparing to strike—or is Xi positioning himself to fight back?

Executive Summary:

Chinese pressure on Japan has escalated to efforts to diplomatically isolate the country. These efforts are ongoing at a subnational level, in the United Nations, and through attempts to drive a wedge between the United States and Japan.

In Japan, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) isolation campaign involves cultivating the opposition to establish friendlier relations between the two countries. In the United Nations, the PRC is drawing on post-World War Two language to limit Japanese influence. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington was also an attempt to probe weaknesses in U.S.–Japan ties.

These efforts are failing to isolate Japan, as others have in the past year. Japanese prime minister Takaichi still holds popular support, World War Two narratives are less potent among other UN member states than in the PRC, and President Donald Trump’s relationship with Takaichi remains strong.

Tencent owns an 11% stake in Reddit, despite the fact that Reddit isn't even available in China

For decades, American policymakers operated on the premise that if we welcomed China into the global economic system, Beijing would open its markets, abide by international rules, and eventually become a responsible stakeholder. Instead, China took our openness and investment, built its economy, and repaid us by seeking to subvert the global order and export anti-democratic authoritarianism.

​We opened our markets to China. We supported its admission to the World Trade Organization. We believed that as China grew prosperous, it would become a responsible stakeholder in the international community. But China’s leaders took full advantage of our openness while rejecting our values, returning our goodwill with hostility, economic theft, and aggressive military expansion.

A new C4ADS study follows tenders and invoices across Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and Hong Kong to name the companies supplying Beijing’s watchers: a reminder that repression has a commercial supply chain.

Chinese graduate student at the University of Wyoming allegedly poisoned a colleague’s tea with acrylamide, then tried to flee to China with laptops and hard drives.

Aili Wang, 32, is accused of buying the chemical on eBay, then contaminating the coffee maker used by a Vietnamese student working on patent-pending research into RNA delivery for cancer and genetic disease treatment—work similar to what Wang had done in China. Surveillance captured her going through his desk, photographing notebooks, and rinsing his mug with liquid from her own.

Police questioned her on October 5. The next day she was arrested at LAX trying to board a flight to China, carrying multiple laptops, external storage devices, and documents. She faces a felony aggravated assault charge. Bond was set at $1.5 million.The victim is still dealing with nerve damage. Acrylamide is a neurotoxin that cannot be neutralized once it reaches the neurons.

U.S. officials have spent years warning about intellectual property theft from American universities. This case shows what that risk can look like when the stakes are high enough.

Min Zin, a U.S. citizen, landed in Kunming on June 3 for a conference. He texted his family he was safe. Held incommunicado, then arrested on “espionage” with no evidence, no charges, and no lawyer. More than 113 days later, still detained. Youlin Chen, another American academic, has been held since 2024.

The CECC estimates 200–300 Americans are currently detained or under exit bans in China—more than anywhere else. Invite them in under the banner of exchange, then decide whether they leave. Students would just expand the pool of potential hostages.

Until the people already held are released, the invitation is not an opportunity. It is a warning.

When Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Beijing in January and said Canada’s new “strategic partnership” with China set both countries up for a “new world order,” it marked a striking reversal. Less than a year earlier, on the election campaign trail, Carney had named China as Canada’s biggest security threat. And a year before the trip, the Hogue Commission’s report on foreign interference concluded that China is the most persistent and sophisticated foreign interference threat to Canada’s democratic institutions and elections.

A first-ever agreement between the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate raises eyebrows. Given the European Parliament’s repeated majority assessments on the risks of police and judicial cooperation with China, some tough questions ought to be asked of the European Chief Prosecutor and her successor.

Why HK just a special administrative region of China? I can’t understand why can’t it be an independent country?