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WaPo: Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests

For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated

WaPo: China envoy says Australia fired first shot with Huawei ban

Australia had fired the “first shot” in its deteriorating relations with China four years ago when the then-government banned Chinese-owned telecommunications giant Huawei from rolling... MORE

WaPo: How the U.N. became a tool of China’s genocide denial propaganda

Before U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet made her long-awaited trip to China last week, the Biden administration and the human rights community... MORE

WaPo: China cut tech exports to Russia after U.S.-led sanctions hit

Chinese shipments of laptops, phones and other technology to Russia plummeted in March, U.S. Commerce secretary says

WaPo: Huawei’s CFO promoted to a top post months after U.S. extradition deal

Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies has promoted chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou to a key role just half a year after the end of her... MORE

WaPo: China’s aggressive efforts to bring back fugitives grow more brazen

To get a fugitive in Cyprus to surrender, Beijing harassed his partner and their relatives in China

WaPo: TikTok created an alternate universe just for Russia

The Chinese-owned social media giant weathered Putin’s information crackdown by muzzling its users there and cutting them off from the outside world, while allowing state... MORE

Washington Post: Taiwan’s residents fear Russia’s war with Ukraine could preview a Chinese invasion

Taiwan's leaders are at pains to point to the differences between their country and Ukraine but residents still fear a Chinese invasion.

WaPo: China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show

China is turning a major part of its internal Internet-data surveillance network outward, mining Western social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to equip its government... MORE

WaPo: Documents link Huawei to China’s surveillance programs

The Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies has long brushed off questions about its role in China’s state surveillance, saying it just sells general-purpose networking gear.

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