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Europe’s China Strategy Is Ready for a Refresh
EU leaders have an opportunity to stop treating repression as a side issue and instead make human rights more central to their engagement with China. By Hélène de Rengervé and Maya Wang Credit: Shutterstock Subscribe for ads-free reading At theEuropean Councilon June 19, EU leadersgave the European Commissiona clear mandate to develop additional trade defense instruments to protect its markets against subsidized imports.
The Week That Was
Anastasiia Lapatina examined the evidence behind escalating corruption allegations against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his inner circle following the leak of wiretap transcripts from a major energy corruption investigation.
How China is reshaping Tibetan identity in kindergarten
Tibetan children stop speaking their native language as early as three or four years old – specifically, when they start kindergarten. These trends threaten the survival of Tibetan culture within a single generation. 10. May 2026 10. May 2026 A Tibetan girl in the Lhalu Wetland near Lhasa (Photo: Imago). (Imago) Sign up now and continue reading immediately No credit card details required. No automatic renewal. Sie haben bereits das Table.Briefing Abonnement? Last updated: 10. May 2026 Share article:
Trump, Xi Attacks on Rights a Challenge for APEC Summit
At a summit dominated by two leaders who have demonstrated utter hostility to the international system, human rights law, and democratic principles, how should rights-respecting, democratic countries respond? By Maya Wang and John Sifton Subscribe for ads-free reading U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet on October 30 during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea. Media headlines will focus on trade and tariffs.
Trump, Xi Attacks on Rights a Challenge for APEC Summit
At a summit dominated by two leaders who have demonstrated utter hostility to the international system, human rights law, and democratic principles, how should rights-respecting, democratic countries respond? By Maya Wang and John Sifton Subscribe for ads-free reading U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet on October 30 during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea. Media headlines will focus on trade and tariffs.
Chinese Nationalists Embrace U.S. Far-Right Ideas
Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event. Roughly a year ago, an American social media influencer traveled from the United States to China to speak at a conference. While there, the young influencer, Jackson Hinkle, posted a photo of himself looking admiringly at another speaker: the Russian far-right intellectual Aleksandr Dugin.
Gaze-centered gating, reactivation, and reevaluation of economic value in orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Communications
Abstract During economic choice, options are often considered in alternation, until commitment. Nonetheless, neuroeconomics typically ignores the dynamic aspects of deliberation. We trained two male macaques to perform a value-based decision-making task in which two risky offers were presented in sequence at the opposite sides of the visual field, each followed by a delay epoch where offers were invisible.
“Educate the Masses to Change Their Minds”
Since 2016, the Chinese government has dramatically accelerated the relocation of rural villagers and herders in Tibet.
Chinese Women from the Countryside: Views on Marriage
Executive Summary: Recent data from China shows a decline in fertility rates in the countryside as well as in the cities. This complicates hopes that rural women could alleviate the declining birthrate. Demographic decline is increasingly a concern for policymakers. The population was found to have fallen for the second consecutive year in 2023.
Opinión: Los hongkoneses limpian las pruebas de su libertad perdida
Los hongkoneses limpian las pruebas de su libertad perdida (Federico Tramonte para The New York Times). MIENTRAS PEKÍN REPRIME CON MANO DURA, LOS HONGKONESES PURGAN LAS PRUEBAS DE SUS LIBERTADES PERDIDAS. Alguien de Hong Kong con quien charlaba por teléfono hace poco había bajado de repente la voz para hacer esa pregunta, refiriéndose al periódico prodemocrático que el gobierno obligó a cerrar en 2021. “¿Los tiro o te los envío?”.
Hong Kongers Are Purging the Evidence of Their Lost Freedom
“What should I do with those copies of Apple Daily?” Someone in Hong Kong I was chatting with on the phone recently had suddenly dropped her voice to ask that question, referring to the pro-democracy newspaper that the government forced to shut down in 2021. “Should I toss them or send them to you?” My conversations with Hong Kong friends are peppered with such whispers these days.
State-dependent Online Reactivations for Different Learning Strategies in Foraging
Abstract Reactivation of neural responses associated with navigation is thought to facilitate learning. We wondered whether reactivation is subject to contextual control, meaning that different types of learning promote different reactivation patterns. We trained macaques to forage in a first-person virtual maze and identified two distinct learning states prioritizing reward and information using unsupervised ethogramming based on low-level features.
US company must stop supplying China’s regime with DNA surveillance tech
The U.S. biomedical company Thermo Fisher Scientific announced on Jan. 5 that it will no longer sell human DNA identification technology to the Chinese police in the Tibet Autonomous Region. In 2019, it had made a similar decision to halt the sale of these products in Xinjiang, the northwestern region where the Chinese government’s persecution of ethnic Uyghurs amounts to a crime against humanity.
China’s ‘beautiful Xinjiang’ continues to oppress Uighurs
OPINIONOPINION, Opinions As Beijing tries to convince the world that the Xinjiang region has moved on, its Uighur residents continue to suffer. Maya Wang Senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch. Published On 12 Sep 2023 During his visit to the Chinese province of Xinjiang on August 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted that the predominantly Muslim Uighur region is enjoying some “hard-won social stability”, and that it is moving toward “unity, harmony and prosperity”.
China’s ‘beautiful Xinjiang’ continues to oppress Uighurs
As Beijing tries to convince the world that the Xinjiang region has moved on, its Uighur residents continue to suffer. During his visit to the Chinese province of Xinjiang on August 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted that the predominantly Muslim Uighur region is enjoying some “hard-won social stability”, and that it is moving toward “unity, harmony and prosperity”.
Prostate Massage Singapore: Benefits Combine with Manhood Massage – Film Daily
Prostate massage is a therapeutic practice that has gained popularity in Singapore and around the world for its potential health benefits. Mantra Therapy, created by Maya Wang, is a unique form of treatment that combines Manhood Massage (Lingam Massage or JuaGen) with Prostate Massage in Singapore and has captured the interest of many due to its promising effects on men’s health. This article will explore prostate massage, its benefits, techniques, and growing popularity.
Abstract Value Encoding in Neural Populations But Not Single Neurons
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Abstract value encoding in neural populations but not single neurons
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The future of technology: Lessons from China-and the US
PREMIUM In provinces such as Xinjiang, China, authorities have what is probably the most intensive government surveillance in the world; in some places, there are police checkpoints every 200 meters. But much of surveillance elsewhere is less blatant and overt—if just as pervasive and omnipotent.
UK Foreign Minister’s China Speech Lacks Details on Rights
The Debate | Opinion | East Asia It is unclear whether the U.K. government is willing to translate its words about human rights into action and hold Chinese officials responsible for serious human rights violations. U.K. Foreign Minister James Cleverly’s anticipated foreign policy speech last week outlined what he described as the “three pillars” of his China policy: protecting national security, deepening relationships with Indo-Pacific allies, and direct engagement with Beijing.
كيف يمكن للحكومات والمجتمع المدني مساعدة الأويغـور في الصين
ونظرًا لأن العديد من الانتهاكات في شينجيانغ يتم تسهيلها من خلال استخدام التقنيات المشتراة من الشركات الخاصة، يجب على الحكومات أيضًا فرض إجراءات متصاعدة ضد شركات التكنولوجيا التي يتبين أنها تساهم في المراقبة الجماعية في الصين في شينجيانغ، بما في ذلك عن طريق فرض عقوبات على هذه الشركات. وعلى الهيئات الحكومية المعنية مراجعة جميع الاستثمارات في شينجيانغ، وعند الضرورة، فرض عقوبات تجارية في القطاعات التي تواجه مزاعم موثوقة بارتكاب انتهاكات جسيمة، مثل العمل القسري.
How Governments and Civil Society Can Help China’s Uyghurs
The reasons for such hypocrisy are clear. In the Middle East, China is often one of these countries' biggest trading partners, investors and creditors, from Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates to Egypt. For some countries beyond the region, such as Indonesia, the Chinese government has also worked hard over the years to win the hearts of top officials, religious figures and civil society groups.
Where Are the Techno-Democracies?
The Chinese government’s ambition to use technology for social control and governance has been increasingly clear. As these technologies have matured, and as the Chinese government’s abuses have deepened under President Xi Jinping, the United States has vowed to counter this rise of “techno-authoritarianism.” The United States has portrayed its own technologies—and those of its allies—as a democratic alternative. But is this really the case?
The Vatican’s Disgraceful China Deal Ought to End
The Vatican and the Chinese government are planning to renew a deal in October that they signed in 2018. That agreement, which has never been made public, is believed to give the Chinese government the power to choose bishops and the Vatican the ability to veto them. Human Rights Watch and many others, including from within the Roman Catholic Church, have repeatedly criticized those arrangements.
Xi Is Bending Chinese Law to His Will
Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions The Chinese Communist Party does not usually air its dirty laundry in public.
A structural and functional subdivision in central orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Communications
Abstract Economic choice requires many cognitive subprocesses, including stimulus detection, valuation, motor output, and outcome monitoring; many of these subprocesses are associated with the central orbitofrontal cortex (cOFC). Prior work has largely assumed that the cOFC is a single region with a single function. Here, we challenge that unified view with convergent anatomical and physiological results from rhesus macaques.
Beijing’s Hand-Picked Leader In Hong Kong Has An Abusive Past - OpEd
After weeks of speculation, on April 8 the Chinese government unveiled its pick of Hong Kong’s next leader—John Lee, a former senior police official. Hong Kong used to be the only territory under Chinese sovereignty with semi-democratic elections. Beijing has done away with them. Instead of a real contest to select its leader, Hong Kong people now witness a very expensive puppet show.
Pandemic strikes new, authoritarian Hong Kong - Maya Wang
After evading major COVID-19 spikes for nearly two years, Hong Kong – one of the world’s most densely populated cities – is experiencing a frightening wave, with one of the world’s worst COVID death rates. It is apparent that the city’s pandemic response went terribly wrong, and yet nobody is there anymore to ask the government tough questions. At the beginning of the pandemic, the unelected Hong Kong government was slow to respond.
Pandemic strikes new, authoritarian Hong Kong
Under Beijing’s control, the densely populated city is struggling to respond to a new COVID-19 wave. Senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch. Published On 26 Mar 202226 Mar 2022 After evading major COVID-19 spikes for nearly two years, Hong Kong – one of the world’s most densely populated cities – is experiencing a frightening wave, with one of the world’s worst COVID death rates.
The Olympics Return to Beijing
In 2008, the Chinese leadership saw the country’s hosting of its first Olympic Games as a marker of China’s emergence on the world stage, and the outside world accepted that interpretation. By contrast, the significance of the 2022 Olympics was never that clear. China has already arrived as a superpower, but the political furor in the lead-up to the games shows that its presence has not yet been fully accepted.
Xi Bends Chinese Law to His Will
Maya Wang Foreign Affairs Magazine November 29, 2021 How a public good became a tool of personal power. Read Full Article »
Xi Is Bending Chinese Law to His Will
The Chinese Communist Party does not usually air its dirty laundry in public. So it was an ominous sign last month when official Chinese media reported startling allegations against a disgraced senior police official: Sun Lijun, a former vice minister of public security who has been detained for more than a year over a vague party disciplinary violation, had formed a “political clique” that must be “purged” from China’s political system, CCP investigators claimed.
Mass surveillance fuels oppression of Uighurs and Palestinians
Israel, like China, has weaponised surveillance technology to suppress peaceful dissent. Tech-enabled control of a persecuted population. Abusive facial recognition. Severe restrictions on movement. Branding peaceful dissent as “terrorism”. For many readers, the scenario brings to mind China’s mass human rights violations against millions of Uighurs and other Turkic Muslim people. Yet this description would also apply to Israel’s treatment of millions of Palestinians living under occupation.
Tightening Up
What analysts lump together as a “regulatory crackdown” consists of diverse actions that address three of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) biggest concerns: reducing inequality, protecting state/regime security, and maintaining tight control over ideology and culture.
China Is Dismantling Hong Kong’s Unions
Chinese state media outlets are railing against groups they claim are involved in money laundering, inciting riots, and supporting gangsters. They warn against “a chronic poison of society” and “a malignant tumor that must be destroyed.” The situation is so bad, the newspapers say, that it is time for the Hong Kong government to crack down. One would think they’re talking about some major crime syndicate, perhaps a terrorist group.
Opinion | The Chinese have long faced state secrecy and stonewalling. Now the world is seeing that with covid-19.
Maya Wang is a senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch. With 4.5 million recorded deaths from covid-19 worldwide, China should be welcoming international attention to turn every stone to understand how the virus entered the population. Yet, not only has its initial coverup helped fuel a global pandemic, its obstructionism and secrecy have deepened suspicions: Does China have something to hide?
Where Do We Go from Here?
ForewordThursday, June 17, 2021 Following up on the Winter 2020/21 edition, TPQ’s Spring 2021 issue continues with the series of debates that we hope to ignite on “systems in decay,” and the shifting world order at large. On that note, this edition... The Power To Change The WorldMonday, June 14, 2021 Sport plays a significant role in American culture, and continues to have broad appeal at all levels of society.
China's Techno-Authoritarianism Has Gone Global
To prevent China's techno-authoritarianism from gaining traction, the United States must start leading by example.
China's Techno-Authoritarianism Goes Global
Maya Wang Foreign Affairs April 8, 2021 Washington Needs to Offer an Alternative Read Full Article »
China’s Techno-Authoritarianism Has Gone Global
Nearly every week, the international news media reports on the Chinese government’s troubling use of technology to spy on its own citizens and those of other countries. China’s tech giants, Foreign Policy reported late last year, work hand in glove with the country’s spy agencies. The Guardian suggested in December that a Chinese state-owned phone operator spies on American users.
China: Fighting COVID-19 With Automated Tyranny
Magazine The government response to the virus hinged on invasive new surveillance methods, like the Health Code app. This article is free The Diplomat has removed paywall restrictions on our coverage of the COVID–19 crisis. Credit: AP Photo/Andy Wong, File “I thought the days when humans are ruled by machines and algorithms won’t happen for at least another 50 years. [But] this coronavirus epidemic has suddenly brought it on early,” a blogger on the popular Chinese forum Zhihu wrote.
China: Fighting COVID-19 With Automated Tyranny
A security guard monitors people through his augmented reality eyewear equipped with an infrared temperature detector in Hangzhou, China, March 24, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo “I thought the days when humans are ruled by machines and algorithms won’t happen for at least another 50 years. [But] this coronavirus epidemic has suddenly brought it on early,” a blogger on the popular Chinese forum Zhihu wrote.
How China Threatens Human Rights Worldwide
How China Threatens Human Rights Worldwide Willie Siau/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesPolice in riot gear rounding up suspected protesters, Hong Kong, January 5, 2020 Because the Chinese government depends on repression to stay in power, it sees the defense of human rights as threatening. But to prevent global criticism of its tightening domestic crackdown, Beijing is increasingly undermining the international system for protecting human rights, putting everyone in greater jeopardy.
Facial Recognition Deal in Kyrgyzstan Poses Risks to Rights
An airplane trace is seen behind a Kyrgyzstan national flag fluttering in a central square in Bishkek March 11, 2013. © 2013 Reuters On October 31, Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbay Jeenbekov inaugurated a new police command center in the capital city of Bishkek. But this local event had an international human rights dimension: the center will manage a network of cameras equipped with facial recognition technology and installed throughout the city.
Data Leviathan: China’s Burgeoning Surveillance State
Data Leviathan: China’s Burgeoning Surveillance State Billy H.C. Kwok/Getty ImagesLaser pointers being used by protesters in Hong Kong in an effort to defeat surveillance cameras and facial recognition software used by the authorities, China, August 7, 2019 Classical totalitarianism, in which the state controls all institutions and most aspects of public life, largely died with the Soviet Union, apart from a few holdouts such as North Korea.
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