In the early hours of Feb. 7, China’s powerful internet censors experienced an unfamiliar and deeply unsettling sensation. They felt they were losing control.
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Nuclear notebook: Chinese nuclear forces, 2020 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
China continues the nuclear weapons modernization program that it initiated in the 1980s and increased in the 1990s and 2000s
Read More »New evidence indicates Hong Kong police helped China arrest 12 activists fleeing for Taiwan | Global Voices
New evidence indicates Hong Kong police helped China arrest 12 activists fleeing for Taiwan The 12 activists are now detained in Shenzen.
Read More »US moves to ban imports tied to forced Uighur labor in China’s Xinjiang region | ICIJ
U.S. lawmakers stepped up their efforts to stop China’s human rights violations against Uighurs after reports emerged documenting forced labor
Read More »China & the US: 21st Century’s ‘Great Game’ | Conn Hallinan
The Chinese leadership may be waking to the fact that they need allies, not adversaries.
Read More »Nuclear weapons: arms-control efforts need China | Nature
New ways of thinking about nuclear security and arms control are needed urgently, and for more than two players.
Read More »India and China: Behind the Conflict | Conn Hallinan
There is no evidence that the US, India and China want a war, one whose effect on the international economy would make Covid-19 look like a mild head cold.
Read More »Is the coronavirus epidemic China’s ‘Chernobyl moment’? | Global Voices
What could possibly link the Chinese city of Wuhan to Chernobyl, the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history? At first glance, not much, except that the Chinese term —- (the transcription of Chernobyl appears in simplified Chinese) has surged on Chinese social media when discussing the outbreak of COVID-19, the flu caused by the coronavirus first ...
Read More »Renewable energy surges despite Trump cuts to investment credits | Bloomberg
Solar and wind power is now the least expensive way to reliably generate electricity.
Read More »How China Targets Uighurs ‘One by One’ for Using a Mobile App | ICIJ
'The internet provided a space for religious and cultural expression, but then later it became evidence of their ‘religious extremism.’' ~ Darren Byler
Read More »China Cables: Who Are the Uighurs and Why Mass Detention? | ICIJ
China’s mass detention of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities living in its western region of Xinjiang has sparked alarm and condemnation across the world.
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