The HRIC Daily Brief is a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in China, drawn from Chinese- and English-language news and online media sources that we monitor daily. In addition to headlines and source links, HRIC also provides English translation of Chinese headlines.

Friday, October 28, 2022

China's Reach & Internal Control (中国:内控与外扩)

Xi Jinping ally to helm Communist Party’s influence machine
South China Morning Post, October 28, 2022

Hong Kong library writing contests forbid entries deemed contrary to national security
Hong Kong Free Press, October 28, 2022

International Responses (国际反应)

Pentagon’s Strategy Says China and Russia Pose Very Different Challenges
五角大楼最新国防战略:中国构成长期挑战

The New York Times, October 28, 2022

US should use AI to beat Chinese censors in case of Taiwan attack, think tank chaired by former Google CEO says
South China Morning Post, October 27, 2022

Human Rights Defenders & Civil Society (人权捍卫者与公民社会)

中国独立记者黄雪琴获“为受害者发声奖”(Chinese independent journalist Huang Xueqin wins 2022 Freedom of Expression Award for Journalism)
Radio Free Asia, October 28, 2022

Related:
Sophia Huang Xueqin is the winner of the 2022 Freedom of Expression Award in the journalism category
Index on Censorship, October 28, 2022

China Accused of Using Overseas Bases to Target Dissidents
Associated Press, October 27, 2022

Related:
爱尔兰关闭“非法”中国警局 加拿大跟进调查(Ireland closes an “illegal” Chinese police station; Canada launches criminal probe)
Deutsche Welle, October 28, 2022

Chinese police detain dissident who forwarded 'Bridge Man' content
Radio Free Asia, October 27, 2022

Related:
四通桥抗议事件启发下,“反习”行动在中国境内外蔓延(Inspired by Sitong Bridge protest, "anti-Xi" actions spread inside and outside China)
BBC News, October 28, 2022

Ex-editor who quit after Xinjiang story axed dismisses SCMP letter warning of ‘further action’ if he publishes it
Hong Kong Free Press, October 28, 2022

理大案8名被控暴動等罪男女判囚44至56個月不等(8 are sentenced to 44 to 56 months in prison for rioting in 2019 PolyU siege)
Radio Television Hong Kong, October 28, 2022

涉光城者串謀恐怖活動案 24歲男還柙15月 高院申保釋獲批(High Court grants bail to 24-year-old man in “Returning Valiant” case of conspiracy to commit terrorist activities after 15 months of detention)
Inmediahk, October 28, 2022

Hong Kong court sentences man to 4 years, 3 months over 2019 Yuen Long mob attacks
Hong Kong Free Press, October 27, 2022

Law & Policy (法律与政策)

Charter amendments turn Chinese Communist Party into a 'gang' led by Xi, analysts say
Radio Free Asia, October 27, 2022

鄧炳強:23條立法不能草率 以免將來要修改便麻煩(Secretary for Security Chris Tang: Article 23 legislation should not be rushed to avoid amendments in future)
Radio Television Hong Kong, October 28, 2022

Current Topics (热门话题)

二十大后疫情突升温 两亿人受封控影响(COVID cases surge after 20th CPC National Congress; 200 million are affected by lockdown)
Radio Free Asia, October 28, 2022

Forgotten Uyghurs locked up in Thailand face 'hell on earth'
Agence France-Presse, October 28, 2022

China’s problem with female representation is getting worse
The Economist, October 27, 2022

Commentary & Analysis (评论与分析)

中共二十大:解读政治局24人名单背后六种政治意涵(20th CPC National Congress: 6 political implications behind the 24 Politburo members)
BBC News, October 28, 2022

专访高文谦: 习近平的麻烦才刚刚开始(Interview with Gao Wenqian: Xi Jinping's troubles are just beginning)
Voice of America, October 28, 2022

胡平:党天下变习天下 20大后也不会风平浪静(Interview with Hu Ping: As CPC’s rule becomes Xi’s rule, there will be no calm in the top leadership in wake of 20th Party Congress)
Radio France Internationale, October 28, 2022

Was Hu Jintao’s removal from China’s 20th party congress suspicious or not?
The Guardian, October 28, 2022

Commentary: China’s young ‘lie flat’ under social challenges
Channel News Asia, October 28, 2022

Thursday, October 27, 2022

China's Reach & Internal Control (中国:内控与外扩)

China-Linked Internet Trolls Try Fueling Divisions in U.S. Midterms, Researchers Say
研究人员:与中国有关联的网络水军试图在美国中期选举前煽动分裂
The Wall Street Journal, October 26-27, 2022

A Pro-China Disinfo Campaign Is Targeting US Elections—Badly
Wired, October 26, 2022

Related:
Pro-PRC DRAGONBRIDGE Influence Campaign Leverages New TTPs to Aggressively Target U.S. Interests, Including Midterm Elections
Mandiant, October 26, 2022

Dutch Are Investigating Reported Illegal Chinese Police Stations
中国被指非法在荷兰设立警务办事处恐吓中国公民

The New York Times, October 27, 022

Related:
110 OVERSEAS: Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild
Safeguard Defenders, September, 2022

非政府组织:全球近半非法捕捞在非洲,十大非法捕捞公司有八家来自中国(NGO report: Nearly half of world's illegal fishing is in Africa, and 8 of top 10 illegal fishing companies are from China)
Voice of America, October 27, 2022

Related:
Fishy Networks: Uncovering the Companies and Individuals behind Illegal Fishing Globally
Financial Transparency Coalition, October, 2022

20TH PARTY CONGRESS PRIMES CHINA FOR CONTINUED CONFRONTATION AROUND THE WORLD
China Digital Times, October 26, 2022

China’s Politburo wastes no time spreading Xi’s party congress message
South China Morning Post, October 26, 2022

International Responses (国际反应)

US State Department condemns ‘spurious’ fraud conviction of media mogul Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong
South China Morning Post, October 27, 2022

Human Rights Defenders & Civil Society (人权捍卫者与公民社会)

中国多地公民转发“四通桥抗议事件”遭警方扣查、失联(Citizens from many places in China who reposted news of Sitong Bridge protest are detained or disappeared)
Radio Free Asia, October 27, 2022

封控没完没了 西藏拉萨爆发抗议示威(Endless lockdown prompts protests in Lhasa, Tibet)
Radio Free Asia, October 27, 2022

Related:
China Covid: Videos emerge of rare protests in Tibet
BBC News, October 27, 2022

Two Hong Kong court spectators jailed for sedition over critical comments about magistrate in protest case
Hong Kong Free Press, October 27, 2022

Hong Kong protests: decoration worker, 64, jailed for more than 4 years for rioting and wounding at 2019 Yuen Long MTR attacks
South China Morning Post, October 27, 2022

Hong Kong protests: relief fund needed to be registered because of its ‘massive’ size, trial involving Cardinal Joseph and five other activists told
South China Morning Post, October 26, 2022

Website of NGO Hong Kong Democracy Council partially blocked in city amid fears over erosion of open internet
Hong Kong Free Press, October 26, 2022

Related:
Business Not As Usual: International Companies in the New Authoritarian Hong Kong
Hong Kong Democracy Council, October 25, 2022

拒交資料案 國安警以公眾利益為由五度拒答鄒幸彤提問 鄒批如捉迷藏(National security police refuse to answer Chow Hang-tung's question 5 times, citing public interest in case of HK Alliance’s refusal to submit information)
Inmediahk, October 26, 2022

高院批黎智英聘英御狀於國安案抗辯 律政司將提上訴指有關律師幫助有限(DoJ to appeal High Court’s approval of appointment of UK barrister in Jimmy Lai's national security case)
Ming Pao, October 27, 2022

TG呼籲「水攻」360貨品 學校圖書管理員判囚2月2周 官指3年後檢控不理想(School librarian is sentenced to 2 months, 2 weeks in prison for calling for "water attack" on products at 360 store in 2019 protests; judge says 3-year delay in prosecution not ideal)
Inmediahk, October 26, 2022

Eight in 10 journalists in Hong Kong against fake news law, survey finds, with improved media literacy education seen as best way to tackle misinformation
South China Morning Post, October 26, 2022

Law & Policy (法律与政策)

China’s Xi Jinping Set to Give ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomacy More Bite
习近平将进一步推动“战狼外交”
The Wall Street Journal, October 26-27, 2022

全球法治倒退 中国“基本人权”倒数第四(China's "basic human rights" ranks 4th from bottom on global rule of law rankings)
Deutsche Welle, October 26, 2022

Related:
Rule of Law around the World 2022-Overall scores of the WJP Rule of Law Index
World Justice Project, October 26, 2022

Current Topics (热门话题)

China locks down part of Wuhan, nearly three years after first Covid case emerged
The Guardian, October 27, 2022

China’s Latest Covid Lockdown Affects a Major iPhone Factory
The New York Times, October 27, 2022

Related:
Foxconn iPhone factory in China reels from Covid outbreak
富士康郑州工厂出现疫情

Financial Times, October 27, 2022

Commentary & Analysis (评论与分析)

An Era Just Ended in China
中国的一个时代结束了

The New York Times, October 27, 2022

How Putin and Xi Are Trying to Break Global Human Rights
Foreign Policy, October 27, 2022

China’s Chest-Thumping Nationalism Now Goes Too Far, Movement’s Godfather Says
The New York Times, October 27, 2022

Global Financial leaders Must Speak Up for Human Rights Ahead of HK Summit
Chinese Human Rights Defenders, October 26, 2022

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

China's Reach & Internal Control (中国:内控与外扩)

Xi Jinping's extended term as supreme leader sparks warning to China's ethnic groups
Radio Free Asia, October 25, 2022

China accused of illegal police stations in the Netherlands
BBC News, October 26, 2022

Related:
110 OVERSEAS Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild
Safeguard Defenders, September 2022

International Responses (国际反应)

UK Court to Hear Uyghur Demands to Ban Xinjiang Cotton
Associated Press, October 25, 2022

Human Rights Defenders & Civil Society (人权捍卫者与公民社会)

海报行动——四通桥抗议事件后,中国海外留学生在各种掣肘下发出回声 (In poster actions, overseas Chinese students, under various constraints, echo Sitong Bridge protest)
NGOCN, October 26, 2022

声援四通桥义士彭立发的浙江异议人士吴京圣恐已遭抓捕 (Zhejiang dissident Wu Jingsheng, who supports Sitong Bridge Man Peng Lifa, may have been arrested)
Weiquanwang, October 26, 2022

江西省九江市网络活跃人士王林安已被批捕 (Wang Lin’an, Jiangxi freedom of speech activist, is arrested)
Weiquanwang, October 24, 2022

Chinese dissidents, activists await release from house arrest, forced 'vacation'
Radio Free Asia, October 25, 2022

Hong Kong falls from top 20 in global rule of law Index
Hong Kong Free Press, October 26, 2022

Hong Kong national security police arrest man suspected of being involved in terrorist plots to bomb infrastructure, courts and set alight Covid test centres
South China Morning Post, October 25, 2022

支聯會拒交資料案 鄒幸彤庭上提「天安門屠殺」 控方指應用「六四事件」(In HK Alliance case of failing to provide information requested by police, judge agrees with prosecution on using term “June Fourth Incident” rather than “Tiananmen massacre” )
Ming Pao, October 26, 2022

【理大圍城】油麻地圍捕 3人認暴動囚45個月 官:示威者如熟練軍隊、迫警方後退(3 are sentenced to 45 months in prison after pleading guilty to rioting in Yau Ma Tei during PolyU siege; judge: Protesters are like skilled troops, forcing police to retreat)
Inmediahk, October 25, 2022

涉立法會「煲底」貼海報 27歲內地男涉煽動被捕(27-year-old mainlander is arrested for sedition for putting up posters in LegCo complex)
Ming Pao, October 25, 2022

隧道連儂牆外攜噴膠及手套 29歲文員認罪被判社會服務令 官:應分清楚法律界線(29-year-old clerk is sentenced to social service order after pleading guilty to carrying spray glue and gloves outside “Lennon wall” during 2019 protests)
Inmediahk, October 26, 2022

反修例截至8月底 1,631人遭判刑、18歲以下佔353人(As of end of August, 1,631—including 353 under 18—have been sentenced in Anti-ELAB-related cases)
Inmediahk, October 26, 2022

Law & Policy (法律与政策)

‘Primary political task’ for Hong Kong to roll out activities boosting awareness of spirit of Communist Party’s 20th congress: Beijing’s point man on city affairs
South China Morning Post, October 26, 2022

Commentary & Analysis (评论与分析)

四通桥横幅抗议之后的观察与反思: “勇气是在实践中获得的,信任也是在联结和共同行动中长出来的” (Observation and reflection after Sitong Bridge protest: "Courage is acquired in practice; trust is born of connections and joint actions")
Matters, October 25, 2022

In China, It’s One Man, One Ideology, One Party
Foreign Policy, October 25, 2022

Xi Jinping has purged China of hope – but he can’t stamp out small acts of resistance
The Guardian, October 25, 2022

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

China's Reach & Internal Control (中国:内控与外扩)

China censors searches for 'Hu Jintao,' the former president removed from congress
Radio Free Asia, October 24, 2022

Screening of Taiwanese documentary axed at Hong Kong film festival after censors request removal of protest scenes
Hong Kong Free Press, October 25, 2022

International Responses (国际反应)

加拿大团体抗议中国战狼外交 渥太华表态脱钩(Canadian groups protest China's “wolf warrior” diplomacy; Ottawa signals economic and trade decoupling from China)
Radio Free Asia, October 24, 2022

Human Rights Defenders & Civil Society (人权捍卫者与公民社会)

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, former company executive found guilty of fraud in office lease case
South China Morning Post, October 25, 2022

Team of journalists resigned after SCMP axed 3-part series on Xinjiang abuses, ex-editor says
Hong Kong Free Press, October 25, 2022

全英十一城港人发声:把施袭中国外交官赶出英国(Hong Kongers in 11 UK cities speak out: Expel physically violent Chinese diplomats)
Radio Free Asia, October 24, 2022

涉連登發港獨等言論 公務員認煽動囚6個月 官稱宣揚武裝革命令熾熱氣氛升溫(Civil servant is sentenced to 6 months in jail after pleading guilty to sedition for posting HK independence-related posts on LIHKG forum
Inmediahk, October 25, 2022