On May 30, 2024, three judges handpicked by the Beijing-controlled Hong Kong chief executive convicted 14 activists and former elected lawmakers under the draconian National Security Law. Two were acquitted. Earlier, 31 other defendants had pleaded guilty in hopes of more lenient sentencing. The court will announce sentences,...
Nineteen percent of cotton on the U.S. market still sources back to the forced labor heartlands of East Turkestan (Xinjiang), according to a new analysis. Reducing that figure is easier than Washington makes it look.–...
Ein AfD-Bundestagsabgeordneter, der sich kritisch über China äußerte, sollte nach Kontraste-Recherchen offenbar gezielt mit einem gefälschten “Beweis” diskreditiert werden. Angeboten hatte das Material ein Mann aus China.–...
At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....
- According to Blinken, the ‘adversarial relationship’ the West has with Russia is ‘on the information front’, adding that there is a need to effectively deal with misinformation and disinformation “which is a poison being injected into our democracies”....
- Fourteen of 16 convicted of subversion conspiracy***- Amnesty calls verdicts “near-total purge” of HK opposition******- Sentencing at a later date, life in prison possible******- Australia minister: ‘deep concern’ at verdict and jailed citizen***...
- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China’s Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....
You wouldn’t trust the Chinese supplier (or any supplier). You’d go to the bauxite shipment company and let them register with the network, you’d send independent auditors to their premises, very much as we do it with ibdependent audits nowadays.
We do need to physically access the premises across the supply chain to verify that ‘on-chain personas’ reflect their ‘real’ identities. But no single authority can control the data, we can be quite sure that all transfers of ownership across the supply chain have been authorized by their controllers. Compared to centralized systems, the blockchain provides us a much higher level of transparency and certainty over the fidelity of the information.
Hong Kong government should immediately quash a court’s groundless national security law convictions of prominent pro-democracy activists, Human Rights Watch says (www.hrw.org)
On May 30, 2024, three judges handpicked by the Beijing-controlled Hong Kong chief executive convicted 14 activists and former elected lawmakers under the draconian National Security Law. Two were acquitted. Earlier, 31 other defendants had pleaded guilty in hopes of more lenient sentencing. The court will announce sentences,...
Shein, Temu and the $800 Sin: Stopping Uyghur Forced Labor Cotton by Unstitching the U.S. Border Free-for-All (dominotheory.com)
Nineteen percent of cotton on the U.S. market still sources back to the forced labor heartlands of East Turkestan (Xinjiang), according to a new analysis. Reducing that figure is easier than Washington makes it look.–...
OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation (www.theguardian.com)
Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences...
Deutschland: Wie ein Chinakritiker in der AfD diskreditiert werden sollte (www.tagesschau.de) German
Ein AfD-Bundestagsabgeordneter, der sich kritisch über China äußerte, sollte nach Kontraste-Recherchen offenbar gezielt mit einem gefälschten “Beweis” diskreditiert werden. Angeboten hatte das Material ein Mann aus China.–...
Hypersonic paranoia in Russia: As treason cases at the highest level of Russian science pile up, is Kremlin-sanctioned spy mania out of control? (novayagazeta.eu)
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Hungary breaks the diplomatic isolation of Belarus by seeking help for nuclear plant (www.euractiv.com)
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Critics of Putin and his allies targeted inside the EU with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware (www.theguardian.com)
At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....
Blinken assails Russian misinformation after hinting US may allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia (apnews.com)
- According to Blinken, the ‘adversarial relationship’ the West has with Russia is ‘on the information front’, adding that there is a need to effectively deal with misinformation and disinformation “which is a poison being injected into our democracies”....
As Taiwan's new president took office, state media outlets in China were spitting fire. And nothing the new leader says or does, they say, can ever dampen the flames. (chinamediaproject.org)
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‘Hong Kong 47’ trial: 14 democrats found guilty in landmark subversion case (www.reuters.com)
- Fourteen of 16 convicted of subversion conspiracy***- Amnesty calls verdicts “near-total purge” of HK opposition******- Sentencing at a later date, life in prison possible******- Australia minister: ‘deep concern’ at verdict and jailed citizen***...
Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive. Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder (www.theregister.com)
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China’s effort to take over Taiwan without firing a shot: How influence operations, cyber-weapon hoarding, and intimidation factor into China’s Taiwan play (www.defenseone.com)
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US accuses China’s leadership over Ukraine, delivers new sanctions warning (www.euractiv.com)
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Funding of political parties in the EU: Populist, far-right and far-left political parties receive a quarter of all the private money, while the donors remain widely unknown (www.ftm.eu)
The linked article provides further links to media report in several European languages....
German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' (www.hrw.org)
- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China’s Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....