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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 2h
China is building an aerial architecture of control over Tibet. New @tibetwatch.org research traces police #drones, counter-drone systems, & flight bans, all through the Chinese state’s own records. The Party-state watches from above while closing the sky to #Tibetans tibetwatch.org/press-releas...
Cover of Tibet Watch’s Eyes Above the Plateau. A DJI EV50 fixed-wing eVTOL drone flies over snow-covered Tibetan mountains, overlaid with digital grids and a red radar network. Text: “Tibet Watch · with research support from C4ADS” and “EYES ABOVE THE PLATEAU.”
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Greg @jamyang.net · 29/09/2026
Essential reading: C4ADS' "Monitoring the Frontier" builds an original dataset from PRC government procurement records to map who actually supplies the #surveillance state: #Tibet as prototype, #Xinjiang as scale-up:
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Greg @jamyang.net · 28/09/2026
Want to know who China is watching in #Tibet? Read the procurement notices. A 2021 contract for cameras to monitor "returned personnel" led Prof Robert Barnett to a hidden #surveillance regime for evicted Buddhist nuns. The Quiet State, #openaccess: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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Greg @jamyang.net · 24/09/2026
Next week: @c4ads.org *Monitoring the Frontier* on China's #surveillance in Tibet, the Uyghur region, Inner Mongolia, & Hong Kong, and my new Tibet Watch piece on UAVs in Tibet. Sanctioned firms' kit still reaches police via domestic distributors. Turquoise Roof's previous report on this 👇
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China’s digital repression model in Tibet
Recent procurement documents reveal that a Chinese state-owned digital forensics firm, will provide an offensive cyber operations training environment and digital forensic laboratory to the Tibet Poli...
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ICIJ @icij.org · 24/09/2026
Join us for "Inside #ChinaCapital"! On Sept. 29 at 12 p.m. ET, ICIJ reporter Scilla Alecci and Bradley C. Parks, executive director of AidData at William & Mary, will discuss the global implications of ICBC’s lending practices in a live Zoom panel. Sign up: buff.ly/ekEaigh
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Greg @jamyang.net · 21/09/2026
For civil society defenders the defensive question begins to shifts from "which CN APT is after us this month" to "which capability is in circulation, and how many APT groups hold it." www.volexity.com/blog/2026/09...
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Mind the (Patch) Gap, Part 2: Fake Websites Used to Deploy Chrome & Windows 0-Day Exploits
On September 9, 2026, Volexity published a blog post detailing the simultaneous use of multiple chained zero-day exploits in Google Chrome (CVE-2026-85046, CVE-2026-87491) and Microsoft Windows (CVE-2...
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Greg @jamyang.net · 22/09/2026
Team Cymru says it found 10,000+ “transfer stations” masking Chinese access to Western frontier #AI models, bypassing regional blocks, & potentially enabling #distillation. Striking look at China's shadow AI infrastructure. teamcymru-01.webflow.io/post/llm-gat...
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LLM Gateways: How They Enable Frontier Model Abuse
Team Cymru uncovered 10,800+ self-hosted LLM gateways relaying pooled credentials to frontier models like Claude, enabling model distillation and abuse.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 21/09/2026
Excellent analysis of China’s hydraulic transformation of #Tibet. The real risk isn't simplistic “water weaponisation”: Medog is advancing while the data & governance needed to distinguish dam impacts from accelerating climate change lag badly behind.
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Greg @jamyang.net · 24/09/2026
Next week: @c4ads.org *Monitoring the Frontier* on China's #surveillance in Tibet, the Uyghur region, Inner Mongolia, & Hong Kong, and my new Tibet Watch piece on UAVs in Tibet. Sanctioned firms' kit still reaches police via domestic distributors. Turquoise Roof's previous report on this 👇
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China’s digital repression model in Tibet
Recent procurement documents reveal that a Chinese state-owned digital forensics firm, will provide an offensive cyber operations training environment and digital forensic laboratory to the Tibet Poli...
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Nicola Macbean @nicolamacbean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.ohchr.org/en/statement...
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Joint Statement by United Nations Human Rights Experts on Transnational Repression
Preamble1. We, members of United Nations human rights Treaty Bodies and United Nations Special Procedures mandate holders, express our deep concern regarding transnational repression and its serious i...
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 23/09/2026
Richard Gere WSJ OpEd: @anthropic.com uncovered a Beijing-aligned operation using AI to investigate #Tibetan & other diaspora groups abroad, including @savetibet.bsky.social. AI is becoming infrastructure for #transnationalrepression. www.wsj.com/opinion/beij...
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Opinion | Beijing Turns AI Against Tibetans Worldwide
Anthropic uncovers a Beijing-aligned operation targeting my organization among other dissidents.
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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 22/09/2026
Join Citizen Lab director @rondeibert.bsky.social in Toronto for his keynote speech at SecTor on October 7. He will be speaking about the Citizen Lab’s decades of work acting as “counterintelligence for civil society.” Register: sector.informafestivals.com/2026/
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Greg @jamyang.net · 22/09/2026
Team Cymru says it found 10,000+ “transfer stations” masking Chinese access to Western frontier #AI models, bypassing regional blocks, & potentially enabling #distillation. Striking look at China's shadow AI infrastructure. teamcymru-01.webflow.io/post/llm-gat...
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LLM Gateways: How They Enable Frontier Model Abuse
Team Cymru uncovered 10,800+ self-hosted LLM gateways relaying pooled credentials to frontier models like Claude, enabling model distillation and abuse.
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Greg @jamyang.net · 21/09/2026
@volexity.com's "Mind the (Patch) Gap" pt 2 is a threat intel report with a human rights story inside it. A third Chinese APT (UTA0565) ran the same chained Chrome x Windows exploits on 3–4 Sept, per Volexity still unpatched. For me, the lures are the story. 🧵 #socialengineering:
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Greg @jamyang.net · 22/09/2026
julianassange.org relaunched 17 Sept. Sole content: 庄子·山木 [Zhuangzi, "The Mountain Tree"], the useless tree / silent goose passage, ending on 先生将何处 ["Master, where will you stand?"] with Zhuangzi's reply omitted. Sino #Bluesky, thoughts pls? @bokane.org @beijingpalmer.bsky.social @samuelwa.de
Screenshot of julianassange.org, labelled “official Julian Assange website,” with bright green monospace text on a black background. A readme dated 17 September 2026 contains a Chinese passage about Zhuangzi: a tree survives because its wood is useless, while a goose is killed because it cannot honk. A disciple asks how to reconcile these outcomes. Below are text-file entries linking to the website and the X account @JulianAssange.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Great detailed analysis here of recently exposed digital transnational repression targeting the Tibetan diaspora, and how it both builds on growing capacity in China and feeds that capacity for other forms of surveillance, domestic and transnational turquoiseroof.org/spyware-as-a...
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Spyware-as-a-Service
Spyware-as-a-Service: What the i-Soon files reveal about China’s targeting of the Tibetan diaspora
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Greg @jamyang.net · 21/09/2026
@volexity.com's "Mind the (Patch) Gap" pt 2 is a threat intel report with a human rights story inside it. A third Chinese APT (UTA0565) ran the same chained Chrome x Windows exploits on 3–4 Sept, per Volexity still unpatched. For me, the lures are the story. 🧵 #socialengineering:
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 21/09/2026
A significant development in #Tibetan AI: Qinghai Normal University has launched Zhida AI Input Method: not simply a keyboard, but a multimodal interface built on its Zhida Tibetan #LLM ecosystem. archive.is/PRtw2
Screenshot of the Zhida AI mobile app showing a Chinese–Tibetan translation interface, with text and voice input, OCR and speech-translation tools. A banner promotes the newly launched translation mini-program.
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Greg @jamyang.net · 14/09/2026
On @netaskari.bsky.social: an agent-orchestrated #OSINT pipeline profiling diaspora communities PRC treats as threats: #Tibetans, #Uyghurs, #Mongolians. Striking part isn't the tech, it's who built it: an undergrad at police university netaskari.substack.com/p/anthropic-chinese-online-surveillance
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Anthropic + Chinese online surveillance = BABEL
Anthropic's latest bomb shell report mentioned a Chinese surveillance operation that by coincidence matched a project we have been following for weeks. Here is the full playbook.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 18/09/2026
Ginger Duan argues that Beijing may fear something Tibet advocacy has often overlooked: Chinese citizens questioning the state’s Tibet narrative. The detention of #ZhangYadi suggests Chinese-language pro-Tibet activism is being treated as a security threat. thediplomat.com/2026/09/afte... #华语青年挺藏会
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After a Self-Immolation at the UN, Rethinking What Beijing Fears on Tibet
Beijing’s real vulnerability is not international action. It’s rising awareness within the Chinese population.
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Fergus Ryan @fergus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What if you could test propaganda on thousands of synthetic Australians, Americans and others before publishing it? Chinese state-linked researchers are trying to do something close to that. My latest:
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China is building an AI system for tailoring its foreign propaganda | The Strategist
China’s propaganda is often mocked as blunt, loud and tone-deaf. But state-backed researchers are trying to make it more sophisticated. They are building AI systems that model the cultural and political values of foreign audiences, ...
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Greg @jamyang.net · 18/09/2026
WSJ @joshchin.bsky.social on #ZRON: the #APT toolkit's old news — RATs, webmail harvesters, keyloggers. The shift is the #genAI layer on top. Stolen foreign govt mail run through #DeepSeek models into PSB-ready reports. Collection was never the bottleneck. Analysis was: archive.is/zvNu9
Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article titled “How a Chinese Hacking Firm Tapped AI to Supercharge Cyber-Spying,” by Josh Chin, Gabriele Steinhauser and Tripti Lahiri, dated Sept. 15, 2026. A photo shows Tiananmen Gate in Beijing. The summary says internal data from Chinese cybersecurity firm ZRON shows hackers-for-hire using AI to organise and analyse stolen foreign government secrets.
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Greg @jamyang.net · 17/09/2026
New report reveals Chinese AI-enabled #surveillance on #Tibetan exile government, Buddhist members, ICT & SFT @savetibet.bsky.social: @anthropic.com findings show China-based threat actors instructing #Claude AI to adopt the Chinese state’s political narrative on Tibet savetibet.org/new-report-r...
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New report reveals Chinese AI-enabled surveillance on Tibetan exile government, Buddhist members, ICT and SFT
September 16, 2026 A new Anthropic threat intelligence report titled
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Alberto Fittarelli @fittarelli.com · 17/09/2026
🚨 NEW REPORT: We @citizenlab.ca analyze the covert influence ops run by the Israeli firm BlackCore on behalf of the Angolan government. We obtained access to their training documentation. Their claims are shocking - or are they? citizenlab.ca/research/bla... 🧵
Feature image of the Citizen Lab's Research Note on BlackCore's Influence Operations for Hire.
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI CEOs are in awe that their models can, given few constraints, hack autonomously. They're also wracked with a vague fear that their products will soon hack the entire internet. I reported on how it's very curious that they seem utterly disinterested in working with cybersecurity experts on this.
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Cybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plans
Cybersecurity experts told NBC News they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren’t being addressed.
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Greg @jamyang.net · 17/09/2026
New China Brief analysis of the PLA Western Theatre Command's #Kyirong mudslide response. Useful reconstruction from state media; the MND & TAR accounts of the same operation put the military's share in proportion. jamestown.org/tibet-respon...
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Tibet Response Tests Joint Command, Military–Civil Fusion - Jamestown
Executive Summary: On the morning of August 26, flash floods and mudslides devastated the Gyirong Port (吉隆口岸) crossing and buried critical regional infrastructure (Xinhua, August 27). Geological destr...
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Greg @jamyang.net · 11/09/2026
@anthropic.com new threat report (Sept 2026) documents three PRC operations, disrupted Jan to Jul 2026, that used #Claude to monitor #Tibetan targets. The Central Tibetan Administration, @savetibet.bsky.social & @sfthq.bsky.social are named. A short thread on what it says (& what it doesn't.) 🧵
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Greg @jamyang.net · 14/09/2026
On @netaskari.bsky.social: an agent-orchestrated #OSINT pipeline profiling diaspora communities PRC treats as threats: #Tibetans, #Uyghurs, #Mongolians. Striking part isn't the tech, it's who built it: an undergrad at police university netaskari.substack.com/p/anthropic-chinese-online-surveillance
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Anthropic + Chinese online surveillance = BABEL
Anthropic's latest bomb shell report mentioned a Chinese surveillance operation that by coincidence matched a project we have been following for weeks. Here is the full playbook.
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Greg @jamyang.net · 11/09/2026
@anthropic.com new threat report (Sept 2026) documents three PRC operations, disrupted Jan to Jul 2026, that used #Claude to monitor #Tibetan targets. The Central Tibetan Administration, @savetibet.bsky.social & @sfthq.bsky.social are named. A short thread on what it says (& what it doesn't.) 🧵
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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The catastrophe that struck the China-Nepal border last month is a case study in information control — and the clearest sign yet that Xi Jinping has rewritten the script for domestic media. Read more on our LS website! lingua-sinica.org/taming-news-...
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 09/09/2026
The Economist – Speech in China is in the deep freeze www.economist.com/china/2026/0...
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Speech in China is in the deep freeze
A natural disaster and a comedy mishap testify to the party’s power
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 08/09/2026
The Quiet State @robbiebarnett.bsky.social reconstructs the #surveillance of #Tibetan Buddhist nuns entirely from official Chinese media: coercion repackaged as "care" studied under structured opacity. Remote research on Tibet at its most rigorous link.springer.com/book/9789819... #osint #openaccess
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The Quiet State
This open access book uses open-source analysis to reveal hidden state surveillance of Tibetan nuns, offering new methods for post-ethnographic research.
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Australian Strategic Policy Institute @aspi-org.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 In ‘Warning signals’, Fergus Ryan, Bethany Allen and Nathan Attrill et al. warn that Venezuela is in a position to become one of the first countries outside China to import Beijing’s new generation of AI systems for surveillance and control. 📕 Read the report: bit.ly/3SXFN2r
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Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My piece with Nicholas Bequelin argues that the US can prevail in the AI race against China by leaning into the strengths of an open society -- democratic oversight, the rule of law, robust competition, and open public debate -- NOT by racing to the bottom. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
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America’s Un-American AI Companies
Yaqiu Wang & Nicholas Bequelin question the wisdom of the industry’s desperate efforts to avoid meaningful democratic oversight.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 06/09/2026
Newsweek: "Cognitive disaster control": first cut the organic information flow, then bury it in statistics. Didi Kirsten Tatlow on the CCP playbook in Tibet after the Langtang Lirung collapse at #Kyirong: 541 missing, 19 punished for "rumours". china-decoded-nw.beehiiv.com/p/china-deco...
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China Decoded: Double Trouble in the Himalayas
A glacier collapse, and a political succession.
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Foreign Policy Research Institute @fpri.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reports from Doublethink Lab and leaked documents from GoLaxy demonstrate that Chinese psychological operations moved from spreading disinformation toward cognitive warfare, sowing distrust and eroding the will to fight. Read more by Bram Wells.
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Inside China’s Cognitive Warfare Playbook Against Taiwan - Foreign Policy Research Institute
China has been increasing pressure on Taiwan below the threshold of a traditional military attack throughout the past decade. These gray zone tactics include
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Christian Göbel @christiangoebel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just published in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social: "Subversive Amplification: Online Dissent and the Limits of Information Control in China," on the two days of online contention that preceded the White Paper protests. The article is available open access: doi.org/10.1017/S030...
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Subversive Amplification: Online Dissent and the Limits of Information Control in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Subversive Amplification: Online Dissent and the Limits of Information Control in China
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 01/09/2026
China’s disaster playbook in #Tibet: delete eyewitness videos, bar foreign journalists, order state reporters not to interview survivors, & punish people who question the official toll. As Nepal’s grief is documented openly, Tibet’s is forced into silence. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/w...
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China Censors and Punishes to Shape Narrative on Floods in Tibet, a Contrast to Nepal
While journalists can report freely on grief and anger in Nepal, China’s official media have presented a sanitized disaster aftermath in Tibet.
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Greg @jamyang.net · 23/08/2026
The China-aligned group phishing India's foreign & power ministries with Yarlung Tsangpo "hydropower" lures is the same cluster that targeted the Dalai Lama and the WPCT in 2025. The Brahmaputra dam dispute is now a cyberespionage front: Tibet & India are one target set. www.ibm.com/think/x-forc...
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Trapping a Mustang Panda | IBM
ITG27’s attacks on India’s energy sector—uncovered by IBM X-Force & Deception.Pro—reveal new tactics & vulnerabilities. Read more to understand the threat & implement robust defenses.
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Greg @jamyang.net · 03/08/2026
A rare look inside China’s #surveillance systems, & the #risks created by their unchecked sprawl. Each new public security platform is another place sensitive personal data can be left exposed. Important reporting by Lily Kuo on @marchofer.bsky.social research: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/w...
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How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners
An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
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High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Nepal government cancelled a week-long international Tibetan studies conference that'd been 4 years in planning — overriding its own security agencies’ assessment that event posed no threat, reversing public assurance frm Home Min Sudan Gurung it'd go ahead: kathmandupost.com/national/202...
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Nepal overruled its own security agencies to cancel Tibetan studies conference under Chinese pressure, officials say
Days after the Home Minister said the seminar would proceed with security vetting, the government’s Chief Secretary personally ordered Kathmandu University to shut it down.
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Greg @jamyang.net · 03/08/2026
A rare look inside China’s #surveillance systems, & the #risks created by their unchecked sprawl. Each new public security platform is another place sensitive personal data can be left exposed. Important reporting by Lily Kuo on @marchofer.bsky.social research: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/w...
nytimes.com
How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners
An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
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Greg @jamyang.net · 03/08/2026
China Digital Times, a US-based outlet publishing uncensored news and online voices from China, faces persistent malicious activity against its website, according to a new Cloudflare report. Here’s what the report establishes. 🧵
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Greg @jamyang.net · 29/07/2026
China has unveiled another high-altitude #UAV research centre in #Tibet, but claims that it is the country’s first deserve scrutiny: Tibet University opened a similar lab in 2021, while a separate test base at #Ngari launched in 2025. www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
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New peak in US-China tech rivalry? Tibet drone hub launches on Mount Everest
Centre’s establishment represents Beijing’s first research and application platform dedicated to drones operating at high altitudes.
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intrusiontruth.bsky.social @intrusiontruth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Dear Diary, Today I found a Ghost in the Network
A hidden seller Guangdong Chanming. If you were looking for them, you’d be disappointed. No public website, no storefront, and certainly no obvious product line to speak of. It made us wonder what …
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 29/07/2026
Two novels revisit Hong Kong’s 2019–20 protests. In LARB, @melissakchan.bsky.social explores how Gigi L. Leung’s *Everyday Movement* and K. X. Song’s *An Echo in the City* portray the movement through the intimate lives of the people living through it. lareviewofbooks.org/article/echo...
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An Echo, a Movement | Los Angeles Review of Books
Two recent novels tackle the complex aftermath of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
China has run online influence campaigns against Taiwan since 2018. A new internal journal article shows those ideas maturing into an actual operational plan for capturing a city. warontherocks.com/total-war-on...
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Total War on Taipei: China Explores Elevating Cognitive Effects into Its Vision of Warfare
In March 2025, China’s military researchers published a concept describing how to rapidly capture and subdue the city of Taipei. Distributed in restricted
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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Please read and share. The world has yet again forgot the suffering of the Tibetan people. Makes me ever so sad to be honest.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 25/07/2026
Scoop: Its AI agent spent days breaking into the systems of Hugging Face, but sources tell @deepa.bsky.social, @kenrick.bsky.social & me OpenAI did not even realize it was responsible for the hack for more than a week. www.reuters.com/business/its...
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EXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week
The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according ​to peop...
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Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com · 25/07/2026
If you tell G:M 5.2 that they're Claude, they're more willing to talk about subjects like Taiwan/Tibet x.com/benji_berczi...
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