Chinese-owned media are distancing themselves from Asia's highest-profile journalism prize amid rising domestic pressure on those seen to be 'colluding with foreign forces.' Caixin, Sixth Tone and SCMP have all stopped entering SOPA awards, Nikkei reports

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NEW: Huawei, the Chinese telecom blacklisted by the US, is secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities including Harvard through an independent Washington DC-based foundation.

Proud to share my first article for Bloomberg:
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What is a life story, in 2:48. Astonishing work 👀

Iran’s drone innovations are changing global warfare — and putting countries on edge bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg Politics Peter Waldman Sheridan Prasso Simon Marks

“Our view is that one should not invest in China,” the CIO of Goldman Sachs' wealth-management business said

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More Customs scrutiny of forced labor in solar panel imports coming after my previous investigation exposed the Indian 'back door' for products already barred under #UFLPA that are getting into the US anyway.

w Ari Natter and Robert Friedman

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Another fantastic article from Sheridan Prasso revealing the lack of transparency in our supply chains. Underscores a greater issue with supply chain accountability that is not addressed by metrics and self-reporting, despite the sizeable resources devoted to it

Has one made it in DC when spotted by POLITICO? 😆 ❣️

If Chinese-made solar panels are being confiscated by US Customs and barred from entry because they're linked to forced labor in Xinjiang...

and those same components go into panels assembled in India first...

why are we are letting India's in?

See my latest investigation 👇

.@WaareeGroup Energies is sourcing materials from a Chinese company whose products repeatedly denied US entry due to forced labor. CBP should ensure that solar panel imports from India are scrutinized for materials sourced in #Xinjiang , say Chairs. Under Secretary Rob Silvers Sheridan Prasso

Bloomberg finds major loophole in US forced labor enforcement:
India’s largest solar producer sent millions of panels to US with components from Chinese company whose products were repeatedly denied entry to US market over of forced labor links. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Where do solar panels come from? Not an easy question, as Sheridan Prasso found out trying to untangle the supply chain. What she found: India may be opening a back door to components made with forced labor in China bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

“Even panels that say, ‘Made in India’ are likely to be affected by Uyghur forced labor”

Are friendly US-India ties letting in the products of forced labor through the back door?

My latest investigation 👇

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Why could parts of your car be made with forced labor from #China ?

🚗🧵General Motors, @tesla BYD, Toyota USA, Volkswagen

Thread on new Human Rights Watch report on links between global car industry, forced labor in #Xinjiang , and aluminum.

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This week has been devastating. I am sorry for my fellow journos, some with decades of experience in Asia as well, who lost their jobs.
The devastation of the media is the *biggest* threat to American democracy.
There, I said it.

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German BASF's joint-venture in Xinjiang joined state officials in middle-of-the-night home visits to ethnic 'target' households during the peak of the mass internments in 2018, company reports show. THREAD:

New media investigation based on evidence I provided last year,…

3/ Worth noting that the 2020 security law was sold to Hongkongers as a path to 'stability and prosperity.'

Since then, crime (including violent crime like homicide) has increased, as has poverty. Meanwhile, the stock market has tanked, and brain drain has soared.

1/ #HongKong 's John Lee vows rights & freedoms will be guaranteed under a new local security law.

Since the 2020 security law, most of the opposition were put behind bars/went into self-exile. Newspapers raided. Arrests over speech, books, flags, clothing. Film censorship.

What