HRIC Daily Brief

China’s Hard and Soft Lines on Xinjiang The Diplomat, April 8, 2021 Related: The challenge of blocking Chinese cotton to help the Uyghu...

Taiwan says it will fight to the end if attacked as China sends more jets The Guardian, April 7, 2021

一组国际科学家呼吁对新冠病毒的源头展开新的调查(International scientists call for new probe into Covid-19 origins) Voice of America, April 8, 2021 Related: Sci...

安徽“猪头人身”漫画作者张冬宁再遭判囚(Comic strip artist Zhang Dongning is sentenced to one year in prison for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble...

China’s Techno-Authoritarianism Has Gone Global Foreign Affairs, April 8, 2021 疑似中国黑客为何能入侵微软：可能通过挖掘事先获得的个人信息(How did suspected Chinese ha...

Hong Kong gov’t moves quickly to implement political changes ordered by Beijing Hong Kong Free Press, April 8, 2021 Related: Hong Kong ele...

Here’s How to Handle the ‘Genocide Olympics’ in Beijing 北京冬奥会为我们带来应对习近平的筹码 The New York Times, April 8, 2021 Anti-China is not anti-Asia...

Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang The New Yorker, April 5, 2021 China Sentences Two Ex-Xinjiang Officials to Death on Separatism Charge...

China’s ‘new’ border rules in Tibet point to same old dispute with India South China Morning Post, April 7, 2021

持续受到中国打压 外媒记者呼吁抵制不对称媒体战 (Journalists urge actions against China's asymmetric war on media) Voice of America, April 7, 2021

中国网络暴力猎巫 女权博主纷纷炸号 (Weibo accounts of Chinese women's rights activists suspended after they shared experience as targets of misogynistic ...

大赦国际年度报告批评中国侵犯人权有增无减 (Amnesty International report: Increase in human rights violations in China) Deutsche Welle, April 7, 2021 Related:...

Hong Kong lawmakers, district councillors face instant disqualification after taking oath if their behaviour is ‘problematic’, senior offi...

China Has an Image Problem—but Knows How to Fix It Foreign Policy, April 6, 2021

China Tries to Counter Xinjiang Backlash With … a Musical? 中国推出新疆歌舞片，反击国际批评 The New York Times, April 6, 2021

China holds aircraft carrier drills in waters near Taiwan Associated Press, April 6, 2021

中国效仿克里姆林宫的“信息战”手法 China Adopts Kremlin's 'Information War' Tactics Voice of America, April 6, 2021 Satirist Jailed For Tweet...

北京外卖小哥维权者陈国江已被正式逮捕 (Chen Guojiang, rights advocate for delivery workers, is formally arrested) Radio Free Asia, April 6, 2021

With Swarms of Ships, Beijing Tightens Its Grip on South China Sea 中国在争议水域部署大量船只，加强对南海控制 The New York Times, April 6, 2021 China, US send ...

Hong Kong’s recent electoral overhaul, national security law can’t be viewed apart, civil service chief tells staff South China Morning Pos...