Tag: china

  • China’s Age of Malaise | The New Yorker

    China’s Age of Malaise | The New Yorker

    China’s Age of Malaise Party officials are vanishing, young workers are “lying flat,” and entrepreneurs are fleeing the country. What does China’s inner turmoil mean for the world? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/chinas-age-of-malaise The system is fumbling in search of an answer to the big question: Can Xi’s China still manage the pairing of autocracy…

  • How Dissent Grows in China | The New Yorker

    How Dissent Grows in China | The New Yorker

    How Dissent Grows in China The protests of recent weeks carry an echo, and a warning, from the Maoist era. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-dissent-grows-in-china The woman in the picture is small and wears an oversized hood, and “she is shielding her face with the sign, kind of hiding behind the sign,” WhitePaper noted. Her…

  • A Dangerous Game Over Taiwan | The New Yorker

    A Dangerous Game Over Taiwan | The New Yorker

    A Dangerous Game Over Taiwan For decades, China has coveted its island neighbor. Is Xi Jinping ready to seize it? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/21/a-dangerous-game-over-taiwan Wu, the foreign minister, told me that Tsai was trying to strike a balance between deterring the People’s Republic and exhausting the Taiwanese people by warning them too often. To…

  • Why Hasn’t the U.N. Accused China of Genocide in Xinjiang? | The New Yorker

    Why Hasn’t the U.N. Accused China of Genocide in Xinjiang? | The New Yorker

    Why Hasn’t the U.N. Accused China of Genocide in Xinjiang? A new report from the Human Rights Office found “widespread arbitrary deprivation of liberty of Uyghyrs and other predominantly Muslim communities.” Some activists think it didn’t go far enough. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-hasnt-the-un-accused-china-of-genocide-in-xinjiang The most important element of the report is that the violations…

  • How China Is Policing the Future – The New York Times

    How China Is Policing the Future – The New York Times

    ‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future Vast surveillance data allows the state to target people whose behavior or characteristics are deemed suspicious by an algorithm, even if they’ve done nothing wrong. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/25/technology/china-surveillance-police.html They can warn the police if a victim of a fraud tries to travel to Beijing to petition the…

  • China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How. – The New York Times

    Video: China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How. A New York Times analysis of over 100,000 government bidding documents found that China’s ambition to collect digital and biological data from its citizens is more expansive and invasive than previously known. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000008314175/china-government-surveillance-data.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=World%20News A Times investigation analyzing over 100,000 government bidding documents found that…

  • How Shanghai Residents Endured the COVID Lockdown | The New Yorker

    How Shanghai Residents Endured the COVID Lockdown | The New Yorker

    How Shanghai Residents Endured the COVID Lockdown For more than two months, China’s financial hub, which is home to some twenty-five million people, came to a halt. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-shanghai-residents-endured-the-covid-lockdown just to clear the air, a municipal secretary told reporters, “We are not going into lockdown, and it is unnecessary to do a…

  • The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps

    The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps

    The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps Thousands of photos from a data hack of police files, reveal the human cost of China’s Uyghur detention system. via BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/85qihtvw6e/the-faces-from-chinas-uyghur-detention-camps Thousands of photographs from the heart of China’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration in Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who…

  • How China’s Response to COVID-19 Set the Stage for a Worldwide Wave of Censorship | The New Yorker

    How China’s Response to COVID-19 Set the Stage for a Worldwide Wave of Censorship | The New Yorker

    How China’s Response to COVID-19 Set the Stage for a Worldwide Wave of Censorship Authoritarian governments in eighty nations have enacted restrictions on free speech and political expression that were falsely described as public-health measures. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-chinas-response-to-covid-19-set-the-stage-for-a-worldwide-wave-of-censorship on January 23, 2020, the city of Wuhan went into lockdown. The next day, Chen…

  • China’s Information Dark Age Could Be Russia’s Future – The New York Times

    China’s Information Dark Age Could Be Russia’s Future – The New York Times

    China’s Information Dark Age Could Be Russia’s Future Russia and China have the tendency to learn the worst from each other: tyrants, famines, purges and, now, internet censorship. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/business/chinas-russia-information.html “When people ask me how info environment within the Great Firewall is like,” Yaqiu Wang, a researcher at the Human Rights Watch in New York,…

  • ‘Chained Woman’ Spurs Social Media Movement in China – The New York Times

    ‘Chained Woman’ Spurs Social Media Movement in China – The New York Times

    Seeking Truth and Justice, Chinese See Themselves in a Chained Woman The woman became a symbol of injustice and authorities’ incompetence in fighting human trafficking, posing a credibility challenge to an omnipotent government. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/business/china-chained-woman-social-media.html Two women who tried to visit the chained woman were detained and beaten by local police officers in February. Their…

  • China Uses YouTube Influencers to Spread Propaganda – The New York Times

    China Uses YouTube Influencers to Spread Propaganda – The New York Times

    How Beijing Influences the Influencers China’s government has supported foreign YouTubers who put a positive spin on its policies, in its latest effort to shape how the world sees it. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/technology/china-propaganda-youtube-influencers.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=World%20News Joshua Lam and Libby Lange, graduate student researchers at Yale University, analyzed a sample of nearly 290,000 tweets that mentioned Xinjiang in the…

  • Does Xi Jinping’s Seizure of History Threaten His Future? | The New Yorker

    Does Xi Jinping’s Seizure of History Threaten His Future? | The New Yorker

    Does Xi Jinping’s Seizure of History Threaten His Future? The struggles of the first century of Communist Party rule are being buried by the need to cohere around what Xi calls “the great rejuvenation” of China. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/does-xi-jinpings-seizure-of-history-threaten-his-future The full self-portrait won’t be released until after the meeting—which consists of four days…

  • One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps – The Atlantic

    One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps – The Atlantic

    One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps What is it like to live through—and escape—the Uyghur genocide? Tahir Hamut Izgil tells his family’s story in an unprecedented, five-part series. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/the-uyghur-chronicles/ The Chinese government’s mass internment of Uyghurs was in full swing. This campaign had begun in Kashgar, Khotan, and…

  • Is Taiwan Next? – The New York Times

    Is Taiwan Next? (Published 2021) In Taipei, young people like Nancy Tao Chen Ying watched as the Hong Kong protests were brutally extinguished. Now they wonder what’s in their future. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/magazine/taiwan-china.html In recent years, Chinese warplanes buzzing the Taiwan Strait’s midline increased substantially, and the country’s warships regularly encircled the island. In March, America’s…

  • Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State | The New Yorker

    Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State | The New Yorker

    Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State Survivors detail the scope of China’s campaign of persecution against ethnic and religious minorities. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/china-xinjiang-prison-state-uighur-detention-camps-prisoner-testimony

  • A New History of the Cultural Revolution, Reviewed | The New Yorker

    A New History of the Cultural Revolution, Reviewed | The New Yorker

    What Are the Cultural Revolution’s Lessons for Our Current Moment? The great question of China’s Maoist experiment now looms over the United States: Why did a powerful society suddenly start destroying itself? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/01/what-are-the-cultural-revolutions-lessons-for-our-current-moment Western intellectuals and artists would have felt much less sympathy for the Devil had they heard about the…

  • Opinion | Trump Is Wrong about TikTok. China’s Plans Are Much More Sinister. – The New York Times

    Opinion | Trump Is Wrong About TikTok. China’s Plans Are Much More Sinister. (Published 2020) The West still doesn’t understand the scale of Beijing’s soft-power ambitions. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/tiktok-china-strategy.html Across the Indian Ocean, where historically India has held sway, China now controls or helps manage ports, airfields, military bases or observation stations, along the coast of…

  • Fearing Detention, Two Australian Correspondents Flee China – The New York Times

    Fearing Detention, Two Australian Correspondents Flee China (Published 2020) The forced departures highlight souring relations between the two countries and Beijing’s increasingly heavy-handed tactics to limit independent journalism. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/world/australia/china-correspondents-bill-birtles-michael-smith.html The Australian Financial Review reported that Chinese investigators sought to question Mr. Birtles and Mr. Smith about Cheng Lei, a Chinese-born Australian business news anchor…

  • With Hacks and Cameras, Beijing’s Electronic Dragnet Closes on Hong Kong – The New York Times

    With Hacks and Cameras, Beijing’s Electronic Dragnet Closes on Hong Kong (Published 2020) Under a new national security law, the police are targeting the social media accounts of executives, politicians and activists. American internet giants are struggling to respond. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/technology/hong-kong-national-security-law.html When officers swarmed him at a Hong Kong shopping mall last month, they pulled…