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Greg @jamyang.net · Oct 30
“Another area that worries #UK security officials is China's predilection for spying on dissidents, known as #transnationalrepression, something that has been a primary target for Chinese intelligence for years with a focus on groups like #Tibetan campaigners.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US tech enabled China’s #surveillance empire. Now #Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price www.independent.co.uk/news/nepal-c... @dakekang.bsky.social /AP
US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems...
www.independent.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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evacide.bsky.social
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.

www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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alisonkilling.bsky.social
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
jamyang.net
A Chinese official exposed his boss. Now in Texas, he’s hunted by Beijing - with help from US tech apnews.com/article/whis... ( @dakekang.bsky.social / AP )
A Chinese official exposed his boss. Now in Texas, he’s hunted by Beijing - with help from US tech
Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang fled to the U.S. seeking asylum, fearing persecution from the Chinese government.
apnews.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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fergus.bsky.social
Our new ASPI report 'The Party’s AI' is out now. It shows how China’s LLMs, vision models and “AI+” governance architecture are hard-coding censorship and control into the future of AI.

www.aspi.org.au/repo...
Cover of ASPI’s “The Party’s AI”. A lone man stands on a road where tanks should be, but they’ve been erased, mirroring how Chinese LLMs censor sensitive images. For more, see Chapter 1.
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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chinadigitaltimes.net
CNN – China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/c...
China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems | CNN
Chinese authorities are using artificial intelligence to turbocharge surveillance and censorship, with the technology predicting public demonstrations and monitoring prison inmates, according to a new...
edition.cnn.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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wsj.com
A WSJ analysis of satellite images shows clear evidence of the Chinese military’s expanding footprint through a network of facilities that dot the Tibetan plateau.
Chinese Forces Battle Dizzying Altitudes to Expand Military Footprint
A Wall Street Journal analysis of more than 100 satellite images shows clear evidence of the country’s expanding air power and reach.
on.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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turquoiseroof.org
Congratulations to Gesbeen Mohammad, Guy Creasey, Sofia Fernandez Vyas, & Esella Hawkey for winning the ARTS & CULTURE STORY OF THE YEAR in the @fpalondon.bsky.social Media Awards 2025 for their film:

Inside China: The Battle for Tibet
ITV/FrontlinePBS/@hardcash.bsky.social www.fpalondon-awards.org
WINNER ARTS & CULTURE STORY OF THE YEAR fpa Media Awards 2025 Gesbeen Mohammad, Guy Creasey, Sofia Fernandez Vyas, and Esella Hawkey Inside China: The Battle for Tibet ITV / Frontline PBS / Hardcash Productions Judges comment: The panel thought this was as good as documentaries get – fantastic, absolutely brilliant TV with so much they didn’t know. A clear winner and the strongest finalist. The panel found it particularly relevant that the Chinese Embassy in London called for the broadcast of the programme to be cancelled.
November 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
jamyang.net
“Another area that worries #UK security officials is China's predilection for spying on dissidents, known as #transnationalrepression, something that has been a primary target for Chinese intelligence for years with a focus on groups like #Tibetan campaigners.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
October 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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opentechfund.bsky.social
An op-ed in @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social by former Congressional staffer Grant Mullins tells the history of how Rep. McCaul & Sen. Blackburn championed the Open Technology Fund Authorization Act -- and what we've been able to accomplish since its enactment.

thedispatch.com/article/open...
Why the Open Technology Fund Is Worth Saving
The government-funded nonprofit has helped millions living under authoritarianism access the internet safely.
thedispatch.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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turquoiseroof.org
Our latest case of #transnationalrepression: a young Chinese woman studying in France has disappeared some seven weeks ago while on a trip to visit her family in Hunan province.

She is an editor for the digital platform “Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet” (CYST)
www.tibetanreview.net/chinese-intl...
September 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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donaldcclarke.bsky.social
Jerome A. Cohen, 1930-2025
donaldclarke.substack.com/p/jerome-a-c...
Jerome A. Cohen, 1930-2025
On Monday night I received the very sad news that Jerome Cohen had passed away that day at 95.
donaldclarke.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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joemenn.bsky.social
Print version of my dive into the growing threats of hackers getting access to victim organizations’ #AI. Thanks to experts from NCC, SentinelOne, Endor and elsewhere.
September 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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joshchin.bsky.social
This is yet another story about authoritarianism — but one that hits a little different. Phurba is resilience incarnate, a person born for these times. And his tale is bonkers. I hope you enjoy reading it as much we did reporting it. Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
The Daring Caper of a Faithful Tibetan Who Outfoxed China
He escaped from police and crossed thousands of miles of wilderness on a decadelong odyssey toward freedom.
www.wsj.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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opentechfund.bsky.social
“This is very frightening,” @interseclab.bsky.social's Marla Rivera explained the technical details of new @opentechfund.bsky.social - supported research into Geedge Networks’ censorship and surveillance technologies to @wired.com.
September 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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turquoiseroof.org
The Chinese artificial intelligence engine #DeepSeek often refuses to help programmers or gives them code with major security flaws when they say they are working for #Tibetans, or other communities considered sensitive by the Chinese government, new @crowdstrike.com research shows:
joemenn.bsky.social Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · Sep 16
New research shows #DeepSeek suggests less-secure code when it is asked to help groups out of favor with the Chinese government. With its open-source model being adopted widely, this soft influence and hackability could spread. Gift link with email address etc. wapo.st/46jEZrb
AI firm DeepSeek writes less-secure code for groups China disfavors
Research by a U.S. security firm points to the country’s leading player in AI providing higher-quality results for some purposes than others.
wapo.st
September 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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financialtimes.com
Exclusive: China’s internet regulator has told the country’s biggest technology companies to stop buying Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips on.ft.com/468o6Rv
September 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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dakekang.bsky.social
1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands:
apnews.com/article/chin...
Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show
U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.
apnews.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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opentechfund.bsky.social
New @opentechfund.bsky.social-supported research from @interseclab.bsky.social and partners uncovers how Chinese company Geedge Networks is exporting a comprehensive, turnkey surveillance and censorship system worldwide.

Learn more:
buff.ly/R7FJAyD
September 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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jamyang.net
Silicon Valley’s Surveillance Technology Transfer Problem
(Davi Ottenheimer) www.flyingpenguin.com?p=72174
Historians Produce Pattern Recognition The Associated Press investigation into Silicon Valley’s role in building China’s surveillance state reads like an old 1940s playbook. The birth of Silicon Valley was unlimited federal funding to develop radar technology for Allied forces. Eventually the results threatened American planes over Korea in a devastating turnabout. The cultural shock resuled in a “Top Gun” project that only escalated the cycles. This context matters greatly when considering tech giants like IBM, Dell, Cisco, and Intel spending over two decades essentially building the world’s most sophisticated digital prisons and handing the keys to America’s most obvious geopolitical rival. The scale of stupidity is sobering. American companies sold billions of dollars in surveillance technology to Chinese police and government agencies, as if emboldened by repeated Congressional warnings that these tools were being used to crush dissent and target minorities. Can you imagine a CEO at a tech firm giving an executive team presentation that “these elected politicians are telling us if we get rich helping China we also can destroy democracy and instrument racism globally, hell yeah!”
September 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
jamyang.net
China controls ~70% of global cellular #IoT modules. Dependence risks go beyond supply chains: firmware backdoors or sudden cut-offs could be weaponised, argues Charles Parton:
congeostrategy.bsky.social Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · Sep 16
🚨 Governments remain ignorant to the threat posed by dependence on 🇨🇳 cellular IoT modules in our critical national infrastructure

Warns Charles Parton OBE, Chief Adviser to our #ChinaObservatory, in fDi Intelligence
We must face China’s rare earths 2.0 moment
Western reliance on Chinese cellular IoT modules can spiral into another pernicious addiction
www.fdiintelligence.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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nytimes.com
In Opinion | “Even if you regard widespread surveillance as a reasonable precaution against crime, there is no way to be sure how this data could be used in the future, and no system in place to protect or regulate it,” Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez writes.
Opinion | What You Need to Know About Police Surveillance
New tools allow law enforcement agencies to track us at an unimaginable scale.
nyti.ms
September 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
the CCP is going to collapse after a cult forms around an AI chatbot claiming to be Jesus and 50 million people die.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The chatbots claiming to be Jesus: spreading gospel or heresy?
Jesus chatbots aren't the only AI technologies seeping into religious practice. Some worshippers don't agree with the use of them.
www.nature.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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chinadigitaltimes.net
CDT Quote of the Week:
chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/09/inte...
"When building circumvention tools, we should be investing in smaller, frankly shorter-lived bits of technology that might only stay up for 18 months, so that we're making a lot of small bets, rather than one big bet. I think as a strategy that will be more robust against a state-actor adversary." - Laura Edelson, assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University, on future developments for circumventing Chinese government internet censorship. Edelson and Jessica Batke are co-authors of the recent report "The Locknet: How China Controls Its Internet and Why It Matters."
September 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM