Where every day is Kristallnacht
Eighty-one years ago this week, in what is also known as the “Night of Broken Glass,” hundreds of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Nazi Germany were damaged or destroyed,… Read more »
Category: Xinjiang
Demolishing Faith: China sharpens hacking to hound minorities, home and abroad
China’s hackers have since built up a new arsenal of techniques, such as elaborate hacks of iPhone and Android software, pushing them beyond email attacks and the other, more basic… Read more »
How China is crushing the Uighurs
A coalition of 37 human rights and civil society groups today sent a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection urging Acting Commissioner Morgan to issue a Withhold Release Order… Read more »
Houston, We Have a Problem – China
The NBA’s apology for the Houston Rockets general manager’s support of Hong Kong’s protesters is part of a broader trend of U.S. corporate submission to China, James Palmer writes for… Read more »
Hong Kong protests ‘raining on China’s parade’: clash of ideologies gives the lie to 70th anniversary
China’s President Xi Jinping presided over the country’s National Day, marking 70 years of Communist Party rule. The military parade included 15,000 personnel, 160 aircraft, and hundreds of weapons—some new—in… Read more »
China’s authoritarian model poses long-term threat to democracies
China poses a long-term threat to the United States, to liberal democracy and to the international order, John C. Rood, undersecretary of defense for policy, told a policy forum in… Read more »
A ‘confrontation of monumental proportions is coming’ in Hong Kong
The Sharp Sword stealth drones and the intercontinental ballistic missiles and the truck-borne monuments to the Communist struggle are ready. Flowers have been planted and red lanterns hung along all… Read more »
‘Hong Kong’s Fight For the Rule of Law’: Holding the line against totalitarian advance
With Hong Kong’s society increasingly polarized by the ongoing unrest, external actors, including the U.S. Congress, the administration, and the legal and NGO community, can take steps to advance human… Read more »
Mao’s long shadow clouds China’s sharp power
In recent years, China has spent a small fortune trying to influence the world through “soft power” — relying on language, cuisine and culture, rather than the conventional hard tools of aircraft… Read more »
China ‘in danger of losing its grip’ over Tibet and Xinjiang
China is in danger of losing its grip over Tibet and Xinjiang and needs a radical reset of its ethnic policies, experts suggest. In September last year, Shohret Hoshur, a… Read more »