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UN declined offers to assist Uyghur asylum seekers detained in Thailand because they feared "China would get angry and reduce cooperation or donations to the agency" (www.thenewhumanitarian.org)

The UN’s refugee agency rebuffed requests from the Thai government to assist 48 Uyghur asylum seekers from China who have been detained in life-threatening conditions in Thailand for more than 10 years, according to internal UNHCR documents seen by The New Humanitarian....

Freedom to Write index says China accounting for a third of the world's jailed writers (pen.org)

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Taiwan warn its citizens against travelling to China amid fears new 'state secret law' could be used to punish regular business activities (www.aljazeera.com)

A revised state secrets law has come into force in China, prompting Taiwan to warn its citizens against travelling to China and rattling foreign companies amid fears the legislation could be used to punish regular business activities....

Philippines accuses China of damaging its vessel at hotly contested shoal in South China Sea (www.reuters.com)

The Philippines on Tuesday accused China’s coast guard of harassment and damaging one of its boats in a disputed area of the South China Sea, and rejected Beijing’s position that it had expelled two vessels from the hotly contested shoal....

‘Watershed moment’ for Tesla as Elon Musk’s visit to China reaps quick reward (www.theguardian.com)

Chinese jets fly sorties over Taiwan strait in show of force as US delegation departs (www.theguardian.com)

Apple’s censorship in China is just the tip of the iceberg (www.cjr.org)

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China's recent campaign against domestic social media targeted falsehood and sensationalism. But the country's state-run media, not to be touched by the purge, are some of the worst culprits. (chinamediaproject.org)

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Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals (citizenlab.ca)

Typing logographic languages such as Chinese is more difficult than typing alphabetic languages, where each letter can be represented by one key. There is no way to fit the tens of thousands of Chinese characters that exist onto a single keyboard. Despite this obvious challenge, technologies have developed which make typing in...

US jails Chinese man who threatened student activist over her pro-democracy protest (www.bbc.com)

A Chinese student in the US has been sentenced to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a female Chinese student who put up pro-democracy fliers on campus....

Staffer of Germany's right-wing AfD arrested over China espionage suspicions (www.reuters.com)

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Uyghur served 7 years in jail for advising others not to drink or smoke. It is the first time that one of the jailed residents from Xaneriq village are released alive. (ij-reportika.com)

“The reason for arrest is that he stopped others from smoking and drinking,” said an officer. “He is not a religious figure.”...

Protesters Disrupt Address by Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng at Harvard Kennedy School Event (www.thecrimson.com)

Finance: Chinese quant funds expand abroad "to operate more freely" as rules tighten at home (www.reuters.com)

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Chinese swimmers won Olympic golds after testing positive for banned drug as World Anti-Doping Agency accepted 'contaminated kitchen' explanation by Chinese authorities (www.theguardian.com)

Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned drug TMZ months before the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, it has emerged. However, they were cleared to compete at the Games after the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) accepted an explanation from the Chinese authorities that the kitchen at their hotel was contaminated....

China has been bribing UN officials to obtain “special benefits” and to block funding from countries that have diplomatic ties with Taiwan, whistleblower and former UN employee says (www.taipeitimes.com)

The families of non-governmental organization (NGO) delegates to the UN were visited by Chinese police and “forced to phone them to tell them to stop their advocacy, arbitrarily arrested, placed under house arrest for the period of the meeting, disappeared, sentenced to long prison terms without cause, tortured, or, as regards...

Chinese spies targeting semiconductor, aerospace, maritime industries in the Netherlands to strengthen China’s armed forces, Dutch military intelligence agency claims (www.europeaninterest.eu)

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Who is seeing the real America? - "For Chinese people in North America, the truth is rapidly submerged by the deluge of misinformation in simplified Chinese" (chinamediaproject.org)

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No online shopping, travel: China's punitive measures for 'blacklisted' debt defaulters (www.newsbytesapp.com)

Over the past five years, China’s household debt has surged by 50%, reaching an estimated total of US$11 trillion. This is largely attributed to a sustained housing boom, in which people have borrowed heavily to invest in multiple properties....