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This week, from 2021: the arrest of a Tibetan New York city cop on spying charges plays into the community’s long-held suspicions that the People’s Republic is watching them
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Mike Burgess says state-linked hackers have tried to access water, transport and energy networks.

How entangled are China and the UK universities sector? Amy Hawkins reports
Laura Murphy is a professor of human rights and contemporary slavery at Sheffield Hallam University. She investigates how the Chinese government exploits the country’s Uyghur community to mine rare minerals and make consumer goods for the west, something the Chinese state denies.
Murphy describes to Helen Pidd how in 2024, strange things began to happen. “I started receiving emails – journalists, other researchers, and companies who relied on our research to help them do due diligence, were writing to me and calling and saying: hey, I noticed that your reports are down.”

The removal of Blued and Finka has raised concerns amongst the LGBT community in the country.

At first glance, these remarks appear to be a complete departure from his earlier hardline stance on China and immigration. But analysts say the shift has more to do with economics than diplomacy.

Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, expresses concern over China's open-source AI models. He believes these free models could become globally dominant. Many countries may adopt them over costly Western ...

A series of statements, articles, photos and even a new national holiday indicate a shift in Beijing’s stance over the island, analysts say
In recent weeks China has released a series of statements, articles and photos, that analysts say signal an escalation in the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s approach to Taiwan.
Beijing claims Taiwan as a province and has vowed to annex it under what it terms “reunification”. China’s military is of a full invasion yet, but senior officials have recently started using sharper language.

Economic uncertainty is encouraging some young people to cut back on their spending.

Mike Burgess points to successful infiltration in the US by units known as Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon ‘working for the Chinese government’

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Australia’s intelligence agency has accused “Chinese hackers” of seeking to gain access to critical infrastructure assets, including telecommunications networks.
In a speech to a business forum in Melbourne, the director general of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation, Mike Burgess, said the nation now faced a threat of “high-impact sabotage”.

Local authorities in the southwestern province of Sichuan say there are no reports of casualties following the collapse.

Withdrawal of Blued and Finka raises fears of further crackdowns on LGBT rights amid growing restrictions
Two of China’s most popular gay dating apps have disappeared from app stores in the country, raising fears of a further crackdown on LGBT communities.
As of Tuesday, Blued and Finka were unavailable on Apple’s app store and several Android platforms. Users who had already downloaded the apps appeared to still be able to use them.

Qian Zhimin bought cryptocurrency using funds stolen from thousands of Chinese pensioners, say police.