CPI: Analysis Written by Jeffrey Wasserstrom. When journalists interviewed me during the lead-up to the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Congress, some grew frustrated by my unwillingness to make predictions. In dodging their forecast questions, I often played the history card.  “Historians like me,” I would say, “are more comfortable focusing on the past than the future.” I sometimes added that it was worth ...

Autor : Chris Bing OCT 30, 2017 | CYBERSCOOP Security researchers say a hacking group likely linked to the Chinese government is conducting targeted surveillance against a Chinese ethnic minority, known as the Uyghurs, through the deployment of sophisticated mobile malware, according to new evidence publishedFriday by U.S. cybersecurity firm Lookout. The attackers are associated with a known Chinese threat ...

NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE TURPAN, CHINA, OCTOBER 20, 2017 Tahir Tomur steps out of his car and looks in astonishment at the side of a dusty street, where a hole the size of a large sewer grate has been piled full of dirt and refuse. "Oh my God, they've covered it," he says. "This is a karez!" A few dozen metres away, he finds another similar hole stuffed with plastic bags and bits of wood. "It's dried up and peop ...

Chinese officials in Xinjiang have banned the use of ethnic minority languages in schools in at least one area of the autonomous region, Radio Free Asia reports. Local education officials sent an order to schools in Yining county in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. The order bans the use of any school books or teaching materials written in the languages of the mostly Muslim Uyghur and Kazakh ethnic gro ...

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, BuzzFeed News Reporter Reporting From Kashgar, China KASHGAR, China — This is a city where growing a beard can get you reported to the police. So can inviting too many people to your wedding, or nami ...