Hafnium, a government-backed hacking group, is patenting technology to access Apple computers, cell phones, and smart home devices.
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The Party in Your Living Room: China’s New Architecture of Everyday Control
An essential new report by the Mercator Institute reveals how the Chinese Communist Party combines Marxism and high-tech to control all features of daily life.
Decoding the Hyena’s Masquerade: In China and Beyond
How a young Indian writer used animal allegory to reveal the nature of power and expose the political realities of the brutal Chinese regime.
Holy Firewalls: China’s New Rules for Online Clergy Conduct
Regulations published on September 15 significantly restrict religious content online. “Bitter Winter” provides a complete English translation of the rules.
Understanding Xi Jinping by Studying His Father Xi Zhongxun: A New Biography
Joseph Torigian’s “The Party Interests Come First” focuses on an important yet often misunderstood Chinese revolutionary.
Powdered Diplomacy: China, Drugs, and the Sinaloa Cartel
One of the largest anti-drug operations in U.S. history raises disturbing questions about Beijing’s complicity with international organized crime.
Hunan: The Tragic Death of Pastor Zhao Huaiguo
Bethel Church’s founder succumbed to years of police harassment and psychological torment.
The Transnational Repression of The Church of Almighty God. 5. The Red Octopus’s Seventh Tentacle: Arresting Those Who Return to China
When it finally succeeds in bringing refugees back to Chinese territory, the CCP arrests, sentences, and tortures them.
The Transnational Repression of The Church of Almighty God. 2. The Red Octopus’ Second Tentacle: Spying Overseas
Another of the seven methods used by the Chinese Communist Party to harass CAG members abroad is systematic surveillance.
(Further) Politicizing the Army: China’s New Military Regulations
While corruption is real, fighting it is also used as a pretext to tighten the Party’s control over the military.