Many nights in the past few months, Shawn Zhang has come home from work at a student legal-aid program and pulled up satellite imagery of a place 10,000 kilometres away. He is looking for re-education camps in Xinjiang, the Chinese region where, scholars estimate, hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim people have been forced to…
ZHENGZHOU, China — In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station. In Qingdao, a city famous for its German colonial heritage, cameras powered by artificial intelligence helped the police snatch two dozen criminal suspects in the midst of a big annual beer…
GENEVA (Reuters) – China, Russia and Pakistan lost their bid on Friday to weaken a U.N. resolution upholding the crucial rule of activists in shedding an international spotlight on human rights violations, campaigners said. The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution calling on all states to protect civil society groups from threats and…
We should pay more attention to Beijing’s repressive actions. Donald Trump got one thing right in his campaign: Americans should worry about China. But trade is not the reason. Over the past year, the country has let a Nobel Peace Prize winner die in prison—something that last occurred in the Nazi era. A vast new…
PHOTO: Mr Howard said responding to Chinese assertiveness was “absolutely critical”. (AAP:Joel Carrett) China could use its 1 million expats in Australia to help grow its influence and power in the region, former prime minister John Howard says. Speaking in London on a panel discussion about the Five Eyes intelligence network, Mr Howard said “Chinese assertiveness” was…
Already one of the most policed places on earth, Xinjiang saw security spending balloon last year China’s construction of a vast, all-seeing police state in its fractious far west has triggered a government spending spree worth billions to firms providing a hi-tech network of cameras and “re-education centres”. The surveillance machine in Xinjiang region has…
Evidence of a vast system of “re-education camps” in Xinjiang is growing even as the Chinese government continues to deny their existence. The camps are estimated to hold as much as 10 percent of the Uyghur population. They are closely related to what is probably the world’s most sophisticated citizen surveillance operation, documented last year in December by the…
Villagers can spot suspicious circumstances on TV set at home and report to authorities ○ China’s mass surveillance network, the largest in the world, expands into rural regions ○ The project, using artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition and big data, helps reduce crime rates in the countryside, which is short of security forces A worker is maintaining…
In recent months news that China is rounding up Muslims (mostly Uighurs) en masse in its northwestern Xinjiang region to political re-education camps has shocked many, although the story is still massively under-reported. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people have been disappeared in a campaign with absolutely no due process. Victims can…
Everything is, as they say, a matter of perspective. And of relation, of one to another, to others. Hong Kong is a small place. As a city in its own right, its 7.3 million people make Hong Kong the 46th biggest city in the world by population, and the 104th biggest country in the world,…
