China
Reddit Has Become A Battleground Of Alleged Chinese Trolls
“Bad enough to have to deal with Russian Ops and the Alt-Right, but now we have to deal with Chinabots as well.”
Craig Silverman
Mark Zuckerberg Tried Hard To Get Facebook Into China. Now The Company May Be Backing Away.
“As we build our infrastructure around the world, we've chosen not to build data centers in countries that have a track record of violating human rights like privacy or freedom of expression,” Zuckerberg wrote on Wednesday.
Ryan Mac
A Leaked Memo Says Chinese State TV Registered As A Foreign Agent "In The Spirit Of Cooperation"
"It's already hard describing who we work for," one CGTN source said. "This makes it even more complicated and uncomfortable when talking to anyone on the outside."
Mark Di Stefano
Her Reporting Led To The Firing Of Canada’s Ambassador. That’s Made Her A Target For China’s State Media.
“I’m starting to feel unsafe even though I’m in Canada,” Joanna Chiu wrote on Twitter.
Rosalind Adams
George Soros Said The Biggest Threat To The World Is China’s Development Of AI
“It will subordinate the fate of the individual to the interests of the one-party state in ways unprecedented in history.”
Ryan Mac
China Has Blocked Microsoft Bing, The Only Major Foreign Search Engine Its Citizens Could Access
Bing is the latest foreign internet service to be blocked by the “Great Firewall,” a system of censorship controls employed by China’s authoritarian government.
Pranav Dixit
Release Detained Canadians Now, Former Foreign Ministers, Diplomats And Academics Tell China In Open Letter
Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained in December, apparently in retaliation for the arrest of a Huawei executive in Canada.
Megha Rajagopalan
45 Photographs That Show How Space Exploration Has Evolved
China successfully landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon earlier this week, sparking talk of a new space race.
Chris Bethell
Chinese Kids Are Getting Their Parents, Their Parents’ Parents, And Their Parents’ Parents’ Parents Involved In A Meme
I'm not crying, you're crying.
Kassy Cho
LinkedIn Censored A Pro-Democracy Activist’s Profile In China
"I feel threatened and outraged," Zhou Fengsuo, who left China after the Tiananmen Square protests, told BuzzFeed News.
Megha Rajagopalan
For The First Time, A Rover Has Landed On The Far Side Of The Moon. China Sent It.
The landing opened "a new chapter in human lunar exploration," according to China's space agency.
Dan Vergano
Apple Blames Business Slowdown On Chinese Trade Tensions And Fewer iPhone Upgrades
The company also blamed weakened iPhone sales on customers taking advantage of a $30 battery replacement program.
Ryan Mac
Chinese Police Officers Have Raided Mosques In A New Crackdown On Religion
The raids are the latest in a Chinese move against unregistered religious institutions.
William Yang
The Woman Who Uses Office Equipment To Cook Meals Dishes Her Secrets
Meet Ms Yeah.
Kassy Cho
Please Welcome China’s WeChat To The #Resistance
Negative articles and comments about Trump were censored on the Chinese internet as recently as this summer. But now the floodgates appear to be open.
Craig Silverman
A Bunch Of Countries Just Joined The US In Condemning Chinese Hacking
The accusations that China steals secrets from companies and gives the secrets to its own businesses isn't new, but a joint international condemnation is.
Kevin Collier
China Vowed There'd Be Consequences For The Arrest Of A Senior Tech Executive. Now Two Canadians Have Been Detained.
The detentions come after Canada arrested a senior Huawei executive.
Megha Rajagopalan
Apple Is Being Banned From Selling Many iPhone Models In China, According To A Chinese Court Ruling
The court order presents a headache for Apple in moving some of the company’s older models in China, the world’s largest market for smartphones.
Davey Alba
This Is What A 21st-Century Police State Really Looks Like
Far from the booming metropolis of Beijing, China is building a sprawling system that combines dystopian technology and human policing. “It’s a kind of frontline laboratory for surveillance.”
Megha Rajagopalan
Trump Called Himself A “Tariff Man,” And Then The Market Plunged. Here’s Why.
Trump is overstating progress on trade negotiations with China, and investors are noticing.
Venessa Wong
Trump Says He's Negotiating To Get China To Stop Hacking. Obama Already Did That.
China hasn't even acknowledged that the topic came up when Trump and President Xi Jinping met in Buenos Aires.
Kevin Collier
Another Woman In China Is Pregnant With A Genetically Engineered Baby
At a meeting in Hong Kong, Jiankui He said he has created 31 gene-edited human embryos so far.
Dan Vergano
The US Loves To Charge Other Governments' Hackers With Crimes. What Happens When One Of Those Countries Returns The Favor?
As the US grows increasingly comfortable with "name-and-shame" tactics against hackers who work for China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, it's only a matter of time before US government hackers are outed.
Kevin Collier
Nicki Minaj Allegedly Flew All The Way To China For A Concert That Turned Out To Be A Scam
In a video seemingly addressing the issue, Minaj said she'd return to China "with a better partner."
Michael Blackmon
Dolce & Gabbana Has Canceled A Show After Apparently Calling Chinese People "Ignorant Dirty Smelling Mafia"
A series of DMs from one of the brand's cofounders and official accounts made racist remarks about its show's host country. The brand says it was hacked.
Rachael Krishna
Interpol's Last Director Disappeared In A Corruption Probe. The Next One May Be Russian.
The possibility that a Russian may be appointed to head the international police agency alarmed Western officials.
Mitch Prothero
Chinese Film Star Yunxiang Gao Has Lost A Bid To Have His Rape Accuser Testify At Committal
Yunxiang Gao's lawyers said they had to cross-examine his accuser on her story, but a judge ruled the woman did not need to give evidence at a pre-trial hearing.
Lane Sainty
China Will Now Let Tiger Bone And Rhino Horn Be Legally Used In Medicine
The new rule, limited to parts gathered from animals in captivity, has activists concerned about a spike in black market trade.
Hayes Brown
Chinese And Russian Spies Are Reportedly Listening To Trump's Cellphone Calls
White House officials are hoping the president doesn't mention any classified information, the New York Times reported. Trump has denied the claims.
Claudia Koerner
A Newspaper Banned In China Is Now One Of Trump's Biggest Defenders
The Epoch Times, a newspaper with links to the Falun Gong movement, is the purest outlet of the Trump movement.
Hayes Brown
