2022-01-03
@catecadell But there's more. In an article published yesterday, NYT's @muyixiao and @paulmozur found that Chinese authorities now use advanced investigation software to uncover the real identities of Chinese people abroad who are posting “sensitive” content online. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations
In January 2020, I reported that a Chinese student at a US university had been jailed for 6 months in China for tweets he had posted while in the US. It was the first example I had seen of a Chinese person jailed for tweets posted abroad. Thread: https://www.axios.com/...
New York Times
Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations
2021-12-15
Remarkable admission, demonstrating that the Chinese government has fully adopted the Russian model of online disinformation. So different from even 3 years ago. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
How China helps foreign influencers in the country who spread pro-China messages, funding their travel and generating lucrative, likely inauthentic, traffic
We are on the outskirts of Shanghai today at the most incredible hotel we've ever stayed at. — It's the first in the world built inside a quarry.
2021-10-15
NEW: Huge move by LinkedIn just weeks after they censored US journalists' profiles — they are going to phase out LinkedIn's China-based website and create a new China-only app. Major implications for future of US companies trying to operate in both China and US. https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Microsoft is shuttering the Chinese version of LinkedIn and replacing it with a job board; sources say China told LinkedIn in March to better regulate content
LinkedIn cites challenging operating environment, as retreat marks the biggest departure from China by a major tech company in years Source: Official LinkedIn Blog .
2021-10-01
I woke up this morning to discover that LinkedIn had blocked my profile in China. I used to have to wait for Chinese govt censors, or censors employed by Chinese companies in China, to do this kind of thing. Now a US company is paying its own employees to censor Americans. https://twitter.com/...
Axios
LinkedIn blocks the profiles of several US journalists on its Chinese platform, citing “prohibited content” without specifying what it was
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios :
2021-02-19
“Oracle boasted that its data security services were used by other Chinese police entities, according to the documents — including police in Xinjiang, the site of a genocide against Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic groups.” https://twitter.com/...
The Intercept
Docs: Oracle has been marketing its data analytics tools to Chinese police, touting its ability to mine DNA, vehicle records, and facial recognition databases
2020-12-25
It's hard to overestimate the significance of this intelligence assessment. There has been speculation that Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent might have ties to China's security state. In fact, they work directly with them and for them—because they have to. According to US intel.
South China Morning Post
The Alibaba antitrust probe was likely triggered by online merchants being forced to pick only one platform as their distribution channel, a widespread practice
It's hard to overestimate the significance of this intelligence assessment. There has been speculation that Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent might have ties to China's security state. In fact, they work directly with them and for them—because they have to. According to US intel.
Financial Times
China's market regulator announces an antitrust investigation into Alibaba for alleged monopolistic practices, the first investigation of its kind in China
the man most closely identified w/ the meteoric rise of China Inc.—was advised by the government to stay in the country... https://www.bloomberg.com/... @luluyilun & @cocojournalis...
2020-12-24
“Just imagine on any given day, if NSA and CIA are collecting information, say, on the [Chinese military], and we could bring back seven, eight, 10, 15 petabytes of data, give it to Google or Amazon or Microsoft, and say, 'Hey, we want all these analytics,” said one official.
Foreign Policy
US officials say Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and Baidu, have been enlisted to process stolen US data for Chinese spy agencies to analyze
Beijing was giving China hawks in the United States plenty of ammunition. That same year, hackers working for China's People's Liberation Army …
Zach writes, “In what amounts to intelligence tasking, China's spy services order private Chinese companies with big-data analytics capabilities to process massive sets of information that have intelligence value, according to current and former officials.”
Foreign Policy
US officials say Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and Baidu, have been enlisted to process stolen US data for Chinese spy agencies to analyze
Beijing was giving China hawks in the United States plenty of ammunition. That same year, hackers working for China's People's Liberation Army …
It's hard to overestimate the significance of this intelligence assessment. There has been speculation that Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent might have ties to China's security state. In fact, they work directly with them and for them—because they have to. According to US intel.
Foreign Policy
US officials say Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and Baidu, have been enlisted to process stolen US data for Chinese spy agencies to analyze
Beijing was giving China hawks in the United States plenty of ammunition. That same year, hackers working for China's People's Liberation Army …
NEW SCOOP from @zachsdorfman: China's Ministry of State Security has demanded that private Chinese companies, including Baidu and Alibaba, help them process stolen U.S. data, such as from the OPM hack, U.S. intelligence officials believe. https://foreignpolicy.com/...
Foreign Policy
US officials say Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and Baidu, have been enlisted to process stolen US data for Chinese spy agencies to analyze
Beijing was giving China hawks in the United States plenty of ammunition. That same year, hackers working for China's People's Liberation Army …
2020-12-22
HUGE scoop from @zachsdorfman: Remember how people speculated that China's hack of the Office of Personnel Management might allow China to identify and track CIA operatives abroad? Well, that's EXACTLY what China did. Read more at @ForeignPolicy: https://foreignpolicy.com/...
Foreign Policy
Interviews with 36+ current and former US officials describe China's strategy of analyzing vast quantities of stolen US personal data to identify CIA operatives
U.S. officials believed Chinese intelligence operatives had likely combed through and synthesized information from these massive, stolen caches to identify the undercover U.S. intelligence officials, @zachsdorfman reports.
Foreign Policy
Interviews with 36+ current and former US officials describe China's strategy of analyzing vast quantities of stolen US personal data to identify CIA operatives
Starting around 2013, one year after the US govt became aware of the OPM hack, the CIA became aware that undercover CIA personnel, flying into countries in Africa and Europe for sensitive work, were being rapidly and successfully identified by Chinese intelligence.
Foreign Policy
Interviews with 36+ current and former US officials describe China's strategy of analyzing vast quantities of stolen US personal data to identify CIA operatives
2020-12-05
The U.S. has added four additional Chinese companies to its list of companies that are accused of working with the Chinese military. Among those 4 are China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC). https://www.defense.gov/...
Reuters
The DOD has added China's largest chipmaker SMIC to its blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies
2020-12-04
The U.S. has added four additional Chinese companies to its list of companies that are accused of working with the Chinese military. Among those 4 are China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC). https://www.defense.gov/...
Reuters
The DOD has added China's largest chipmaker SMIC to its blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday added China's top chipmaker SMIC and oil giant CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies …
2020-08-20
I know it's easy and seems logical to blame the Trump administration for banning Chinese tech, but Taiwan is doing it too (and so has India). Chinese tech companies are deeply problematic to democracies. That's a simple fact. https://asia.nikkei.com/...
Reuters
Taiwan to stop local sales for Chinese internet streamers iQiyi and Tencent, but won't block them as users will still be able to buy overseas subscriptions
2020-06-13
NEW: Zoom just confirmed that Chinese govt asked it to close several meetings & accounts engaging in “illegal” activity. Zoom has now promised to develop the ability to block mainland users from certain meetings. Two sets of values for 1 company. https://www.axios.com/...
Bloomberg
Zoom says it deactivated accounts of US-based activists due to China's demands, won't allow such requests to impact users outside mainland China “going forward”
- Company shut down video meetings to remember Tiananmen Square — Zoom's in the middle of a free speech and censorship clash
2020-06-11
New: Zoom closed an account used by U.S.-based Chinese activists, after they held an event marking the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. “We are outraged by this act from Zoom, a U.S company,” said @ZhouFengSuo & other activists in a statement. https://www.axios.com/...
Axios
US-based Chinese activists say Zoom closed their paid account after event commemorating Tiananmen; Zoom says it was complying with local law, has reactivated it
The U.S. video-conferencing company Zoom closed the account of a group of prominent U.S.-based Chinese activists after they held …