Chinese Regime

Crackdowns on online speech have increased following Beijing’s enactment of a cybersecurity law in June 2017.

In the narrow “window” that remains before China is completely blocked by the United States from importing key technology, Beijing should use “unrestricted” and “supernormal” means, including “more precise, better concealed, and special ways,” to expedite the process of acquiring overseas talent and cutting-edge equipment, according to a leaked internal Chinese government document. The 12-page […]

This is the latest case of an academic getting punished for speech deemed too critical of the status quo or the Party.

BEIJING— China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled a former top general who killed himself during a corruption probe and indicted another on graft charges amid Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s continuing crackdown on military malfeasance. Official media reported that Zhang Yang killed himself at home last November, after which they denounced his death as a “despicable” […]

Uyghurs in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are being tortured, raped, and killed in secretive “political re-education” camps, former detainees have told The Epoch Times. “Upwards of one million” of the predominantly Uyghur prisoners continue to be detained in what were, until Oct. 9, extrajudicial internment camps in western China, according to figures quoted by the […]

As China’s overseas talent-recruitment programs come under close scrutiny in the United States, Taiwan is also raising the alarm about the outflow of the island’s nationals to lucrative jobs on the mainland. Beijing has created several recruitment programs to attract overseas Chinese and foreign experts to work in China, for the goal of driving the […]

New Zealand media recently revealed the extent of China’s infiltration within the country. In an Oct. 11 report, New Zealand online news website Newsroom uncovered that some government offices were using surveillance cameras developed by Hikvision, whose controlling shareholder belongs to a Chinese state-owned enterprise. Hikvision’s surveillance technology has been employed in the large-scale human […]