The U.S. government is sanctioning 28 Chinese entities for involvement in the suppression of the Uighur people of China’s Xinjaing province, the Wall Street Journal reports. Targets of the action include video-surveillance and facial-recognition giants Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, Megvii Technology Inc. and SenseTime Group Ltd. The decision by the Commerce Department to add the...
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China’s All-Seeing Spy Agency
From Top World Intelligence Agencies MSS is responsible for China’s foreign intelligence and counterintelligence mission. Despite reports of internal turmoil, the Chinese intelligence has had numerous successes. In the field of economic espionage, the FBI considers China the biggest threat to the United States. In December 2018 U.S. prosecutors charged two MSS agents for their role...
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Chris Hayes Talks About the Uighurs and China’s Secret Internment Camps
One of the most under-covered new stories in the world is the Chinese government’s “Orwellian” repression of the Uighur people in western China. China’s Ministry of State Security is responsible. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes picked up the story on his podcast. Right now, roughly ten percent of the Uyghur population has been ‘disappeared’, held indefinitely in...
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U.S. Declares Grindr a National Security Risk
The gay dating app has been purchased by a Chinese company. U.S. officials are concerned that China’s powerful Ministry of State Security may exploit Grindr data for its own purposes. U.S. officials have been increasingly wary of Chinese-owned companies handling extensive amounts of personal data for Americans, especially if military or government personnel might use...
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China Steps Up Defense of Uighur Re-Education Camps
China’s massive effort to control and coopt the ethnic minority Uighurs is getting international attention and China is pushing back. In a diplomatic offensive, the Chinese government wants to explain to countries in the Middle East, what its Ministry of State Security is doing. The government has now invited China-based diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Morocco,...
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