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How China Is Building an Architecture of Control Across the Heart of Asia

In the years following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, much of the world treated the region as strategically peripheral - unstable, [...] More

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Making Sense of China’s Counterterrorism White Paper

Bottom Line Up Front: On 18 March, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) released a white paper outlining its counterterrorism efforts in Xinjiang [...] More

Chinese Facial Recognition Database Inadvertently Exposed

Bottom Line Up FrontA Dutch cybersecurity researcher reported that Chinese company SenseNets exposed millions of people’s facial recognition [...] More

China's Counter-Terrorism Law and the Uyghurs

On 27 December 2015, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) passed the country’s first counterterrorism legislation. The law carried sweeping [...] More