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Chinese mobile phone leader Xiaomi removed from Pentagon blacklist
The U.S. government has accepted a court ruling that removes Xiaomi — a company founded by a famous serial entrepreneur with no military ties — from a blacklist of companies with alleged links to the Chinese military.
Opportunity and anxiety at the center of China’s surveillance industry
Anhui province is at the center of China’s surveillance industry. The people there have mixed feelings about this.
Two Chinese military suppliers to merge to counter U.S. sanctions
Two military technology suppliers, China Electronics Technology Group (CETC) and SOE Potevio, will merge amid U.S. sanction pressures and Beijing’s push for state-owned enterprises reforms.
U.S. blacklists China’s top chipmaker and world’s biggest consumer drone company
The U.S. government has added 60 Chinese companies to its growing “Entity List” of organizations, which restricts exports from American firms. But is Washington cutting off its nose to spite its face?
Beijing congratulates Biden, with reservations
China’s Foreign Ministry issued a cautious congratulation to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at its daily press conference.
Xi Jinping says companies must be more patriotic
Supreme leader Xi Jinping gave a speech in which he provided mixed messages, urging companies to be both more patriotic and more innovative, and promising “deep reform and opening up.”
Will China control the global internet via its Digital Silk Road?
Will Beijing use the Digital Silk Road — the technology sidekick to the Belt and Road Initiative — to grow its control over global communications networks? As the pandemic shocks geopolitics, and the U.S. China tech cold war drives further decoupling, China has an opportunity to make its “cyber sovereignty” vision a reality in many places around the world.
Mild retaliation from Beijing, and an enormous pipeline from Siberia
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‘Apocalyptic’ — the effects of Entity List action against leading Chinese AI companies
The U.S. Commerce Department action to place eight leading Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) and security companies on the Entity List in early October is already causing…
Is Kashmir the next Xinjiang?
On August 5, India unilaterally revoked the autonomy of Kashmir, and integrated it into India proper. Since then, Kashmir has been effectively shut down, with no internet, little mobile phone functionality, and a widespread police presence. India’s treatment of Kashmir shares more than a few similarities with how China has treated Xinjiang in the past decade, according to an article by Nithin Coca in The Nation.
U.S. government sanctions China for abuse of Muslim minorities
The U.S. has become the first country to sanction any Chinese company or official for abuses in Xinjiang. The moves to sanction companies and officials were welcomed by human rights activists, but some of the implementation and timing may not have been what they were hoping for.
Xinjiang sanctions finally come, two days before 13th round of trade talks
The system of mass internment camps for Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has been documented in a steady stream of compelling reports over…
China’s ‘social re-engineering’ of Uyghurs, explained by Darren Byler
Mass internment in concentration camps, forced labor, parent-child separation: These are just a few of the realities of life for Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region. Scholar Darren Byler explains.
