"Through #Gu’s American agent, Tom Yaps, Gu Yan said the family would not take part unless they could review the entire article before publication – to guarantee that no criticism of #China appeared in the text."
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In recent weeks, we, like several foreign colleagues, have been hindered or stopped several times by the police while reporting on subjects related to the Games.
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Yilamujiang was praised by Gou Zhongwen, director of China’s General Administration of Sport, as a “role model” who worked hard at both physical training and lessons in political thought.
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Such a contrast to the 2008 summer Olympics. One resident said, “Back then, Beijing opened more subway lines, reduced air pollution and encouraged people to learn English and know more about the world. It was the excitement of seeing and being seen.”
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The opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics, a techno-utopian celebration of youth, the future and Xi Jinping’s vision for a powerful, stable and technologically advanced China. By
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Taiwan delegation enters under the name Chinese Taipei 中华台北 not 中国台北. Some in Taiwan had been worried Beijing would use this as an opportunity to assert sovereignty over TW. TW delegation followed by “Chinese Hong Kong” delegation.
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'There were many other wildly inappropriate comments that cannot be published in The Washington Post.'
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UK police posted a mug shot of "hot fugitive" Jonathan Cahill hoping to catch the burglar, instead they caught 95,000 comments "largely from women offering to help locate him for, um, totally different reasons...One said, “I have handcuffs.” @GuinnessKebab washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/
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NEW: China put thousands of Uyghur kids in state boarding schools and taught Mandarin and political ideology, many of them after their parents were detained or arrested. For the first time, two children share their story from inside. With .
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Breaking: India says its Charge d'Affaires in Beijing will not be attending the opening or the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics over China's decision to have Qi Fabao serve as one of the Olympic torchbearers.
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Kamaltürk Yalqun is known as a Uyghur rights activist, one calling for a full boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics. But in '08, he was himself a torchbearer for the Olympic flames in China --
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DJI says the Chinese government hasn’t invested in it. Chinese government investors say otherwise.
Our latest w on DJI’s Beijing funding (and ongoing Xinjiang business)
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A scholar who was hired by to teach human rights law has found out that his visa to #HongKong has been denied. This is another telling example of how different HK has become in just the last two years.
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I'm sad to announce I’m back on the law teaching market. As some of you know, I accepted an offer last year to teach human rights law at the University of Hong Kong, and recently found out my visa was denied.
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"At the exact moment when Beijing is stamping out these kinds of local histories, in the academic world outside of China there’s more attention being paid to them."
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As the space for academic freedom and artistic expression shrinks in Hong Kong, guardians of the city's culture are springing up around the world.
@stegersaurus reports: trib.al/C4GcZjf
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Fascinating to step back & look at how China has changed since the 2008 Olympics. Everything's changed. China only had 73 miles of high-speed rail, it didn't have an aircraft carrier, it hadn't been to the moon or Mars. There were presidential term limits. washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic
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An underground operation is emerging in Hong Kong to save hamsters from authorities, with foster carers taking them in and concealing them. 3,000 people have volunteered.
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Think resistance is dead in Hong Kong? Meet the underground hamster railroad.
"One, skilled in Photoshop, has offered to amend hamster purchase receipts to indicate the pets were bought before Dec. 22."
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More than ever, Taiwanese are embracing an identity that is distinct from that of their Communist-ruled neighbor. Our story captures this shift by looking at a four-generation family in Chiayi. w/, editing by and photos by
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Daily updates on Zhihu from someone who says they are in the now locked down compound where Beijing’s first omicron case lived. The person has been taken away but residents still have to do daily covid tests. Entrances have been welded shut with metal sheets. Ht
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China Olympics organizing official says athletes may face punishment for "any behavior or speech that is against the Olympic spirit, especially against the Chinese laws and regulations"
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Chinese activist Yang Maodong was formally arrested two days after the death of his wife who was living in the US. Chinese authorities had blocked Yang from leaving China to go see his critically ill wife. They had not seen each other in 15 years when she died.
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Chinese human rights activist who was detained following repeated pleas to be allowed to visit his terminally ill wife has been formally arrested days after she died for allegedly “inciting subversion of state power”. theguardian.com/world/2022/jan
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Reuters was granted rare access to a bootcamp for marines training to become frogmen, Taiwan's equivalent of the US Navy SEALs. Powerful images by
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In 2019 a group of lawyers and activists met in a seaside Chinese town where they ate takeout, sang karaoke and discussed China’s fledgling rights movement. Now two of the attendees are facing trial on charges of subversion and 10 years or more of prison.
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How zero covid works. Omicron cases in Tianjin, 130km from Beijing, prompted this email to parents from a Beijing international school this evening
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Documents from a military defector and analysis of more than 300 videos and photos add to evidence that Myanmar’s military is committing crimes against humanity and war crimes, according to legal experts who reviewed material shared by The Post.
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This August, the Myanmar military summoned town elders from Thantlang with a warning: control the rebellion, or we will destroy your town. Over four months, they did just that. New investigation w/ @joyceslee @mmkelly22 @atthar_mirza :
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“A lot of Taiwanese people still pay their respect to this particular person. We didn’t deny he’d done something wrong, and you can’t deny that he also has done something good.”
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I recently spoke to Fred Chin and Yang Zhenlong, about their suffering during White Terror, and what it means now. Hours long, they were the most affecting & illuminating conversations I’ve had since moving to Taiwan. A small portion of what they said:
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As Lithuania faces pressure from China for drawing closer to Taiwan, Taiwanese are buying up Lithuanian goods and cheering Lithuanians in Taiwan. “It happens everywhere. I go buy a lunch box and when they hear I am from Lithuania, everyone starts clapping.”
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柳家明 'Combined with the middle character, the name is rather masculine; my grandfather didn’t want me to be the kind of woman who needed a man to depend on.'
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I've always been ashamed of my Chinese name, but after covering anti-Asian attacks and representing my community, it's time to be proud of who I am. New year, new byline wapo.st/asiannames #VeryAsian
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Online commentators began to talk of the failures of Xi’an’s response as a second crisis, no worse than that of the virus itself. “In today’s Xi’an, you can starve to death, can get sick and die, but you just cannot die of covid,” one wrote.
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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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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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Is it still a 'diplomatic boycott' if working-level officials are present? US says yes, China says no.
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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’ #PillarOfShame
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This essay by the Sweden-based researcher , writing for the first time about her own family’s experience in Xinjiang of being detained, monitored and having children taken away, as well as her own struggle of whether to speak out, is heartbreaking.
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In this apparently impromptu interview, Peng turns toward the approaching journalist before the reporter even addresses her. Her eye twitches as she says her Weibo post was "misinterpreted," indirectly confirming for the first time that she wrote it.
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This GT critique of our Huawei surveillance report has a curious line: “For example, in terms of voice analysis, Huawei only collects and manages the sounds,” it says, citing an expert. Huh? How does Huawei collect the sounds?
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Xi Jinping is a micromanager who intervenes often, unpredictably and sometimes vaguely, according to those working for him. "When loyalty is the critical measure for officials, no one dares say anything even if the instructions are confusing." by
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Millions of Chinese are not going to be able to celebrate Lunar New Year with their families for the third year in a row, prompting questions about China’s strict zero covid policy. ‘You can make demands of one person, 10 people but not 1 billion people.’
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A 'civil war' between pet lovers and conservatives who see animal rights as elitist and Western is playing out in China. On Weibo, a hashtag called “root out extremist animal protection groups” has 8 million views. by
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. reviewed more than 100 ppt presentations showing how Huawei helps authorities identify individuals by voice, monitor political individuals of interest, manage ideological reeducation and labor for prisoners and help retailers track shoppers.
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State-run news outlets and local governments have organized and funded pro-Beijing influencers’ travel, according to government documents and the creators themselves. They have paid or offered to pay the creators.
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