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National security reporter for The Washington Post, covering China. Rural Australian always. Send tips & obscure data sets to Cate.Cadell@washpost.com

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    Jan 19

    1/ This story has generated vitriolic backlash in China, and reporting it turned out to be more difficult than I imagined. A Tweet thread 🧵on reporting in China these days: Last year, we lined up interviews with factories and government noodle officials (yes, they exist)

    My office mates probably hate me, but over the pandemic, I've developed a love for snail noodles (a love encouraged by and ), so and I went down to Guangxi province to understand why the noodle's are such a viral sensation
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  2. Jan 19

    Props to all the China correspondents who have been living the longest pandemic under intense visa uncertainty

    Three years ago ydy, I returned to China from filming in Australia... and haven't been able to leave since the outbreak.
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  3. Jan 18

    ‘It also includes a feature to allow users to report “politically sensitive content” to My 2022. It is not clear with whom the information would be shared.’

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    Jan 17

    Friends of Australian Yang Hengjun - detained 3 years in China on spying charges - concerned by worsening health. "We are very concerned that the verdict from this trial has been subject to numerous delays," said Australia's foreign minister Marise Payne.

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  5. Jan 13

    Does anyone know of a good mobile/digital forensics outfit, perhaps China specialists? I’m willing to donate two iPhones I used as a journalist over 6 years in Beijing to anyone who can do a security postmortem on them for me

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  6. Jan 12

    Chinese people are living such a different COVID. Here, a woman in Xi’an was put into quarantine as a close contact - unable to take her beloved dog, cameras show it crying & demolishing the house. “As long as the dog is healthy, I don’t care about the house being destroyed”

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  7. Jan 10

    Bye Australia! It’s been a surreal four months of flood and plague - DC here I come!

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  8. Jan 10

    The PAP play a huge ongoing role in managing Xinjiang’s internment drive - it’s beyond common to find their bases attached to prisons there still, where PAP are guard staff. I have no doubt the XJ PAP chief is very experienced. Why that experience is needed in HK is just…

    Peng Jingtang, the new head of the PLA garrison in Hong Kong, was previously chief of staff of the People's Armed Police in Xinjiang, site of a years-long crackdown on predominantly Muslim minorities:
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    Jan 4

    In Xi'an, a woman eight months pregnant miscarried after being refused care until she had tested negative for covid, according to a now deleted post. She waited for two hours outside the hospital before staff relented, seeing that she was bleeding heavily.

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  10. 31 Dec 2021

    In a major turning point, Chinese government agencies are collecting vast troves of data on overseas social media targets – seeking to replicate the same surveillance they use at home. I collected documents on over 300 projects to explain how:

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    31 Dec 2021

    China's digital manhunt goes global: The final piece in our series on China's outbound propaganda and censorship shows how police use ever more sophisticated tech to find and silence those overseas. They target Chinese students and Chinese Americans alike.

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  12. 30 Dec 2021

    Tomorrow is the the 2yr anniversary of when the world first learned about a virus in a market. I’m still astounded by what’s happened since our first niche stories out of China. I’ll be passing NYE in isolation as a close contact 🍺.

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  13. 22 Dec 2021

    This statement immediately reminded me of when Beijing massively restricted access to Tibet on the grounds that foreigners suffer altitude sickness. Chinese authorities routinely quash politically sensitive things in the name of ‘safety’

    Latest statement from HKU Council:
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    17 Dec 2021

    Fantastic ⁦⁩ reporting on how Amazon bent over backwards to sell kindle & cloud services in China, including by promoting Xi’s books as “best sellers,” censoring reviews of propaganda films & providing a dissident’s IP address to authorities

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    12 Dec 2021

    The employee, Zhou, sent us copies of messages showing her trying to negotiate a leave of absence. “I hope that one day, peo­ple will no longer hurl in­sults and abuse at vic­tims when this so­ci­ety con­fronts sex­ual-as­sault cases” Via

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    10 Dec 2021

    Two activists who tried to attend were effectively locked inside their homes by police using their bodies to pin their front doors closed. Near my office, police shut down an entire embassy street because several activists planned to be picked up there by EU diplomats.

    All they wanted was to participate in a discussion organzied by the EU-Delegation in Beijing: Chinese activists blocked from leaving homes on Human Rights Day
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    8 Dec 2021

    At least 293 journalists were jailed worldwide in 2021, a record, and more than a quarter of them are behind bars in China, the leading incarcerator of journalists

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    7 Dec 2021

    Almost 80% of Tibetan children in China have been placed in a vast system of government-run boarding schools, and cut off from their families, languages and traditional culture, according to new analysis of official data by :

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  19. 1 Dec 2021

    Great that Meta's removing misinformation accounts - but I'm very curious about who could possibly be the Chinese-speaking Facebook audience in Tibet ...

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  20. 25 Nov 2021

    Half an hour ago we mounted a rescue mission to save some drowning beehives. We didn’t wear bee suits on the first attempt and I have 8 welts to prove it. Quietly looking forward to returning to an office… 4/4

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