I wrote about shrinking press freedom & the chilling effect of Beijing’s growing national security propaganda on media for The Guardian

“Some Chinese media journalists have also been called ‘foreign forces’, which is ridiculous,” one Beijing journo told me: theguardian.com/global-develop…

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik China Studies Vienna Universität Wien in einem sehr informativen Interview bei
'Jung und Naiv' zu #China , dessen innenpolitische und geopolitische Rolle, Xi Jinping und warum für diese Analyse ein historischer Blick wichtig ist #sinologie youtube.com/live/r06TMV432…

The Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution is hosting a virtual #OriginOfCovid event on May 14.

Jesse Bloom, Maciej Boni, Susan Weiss and Jason Bannan, a former FBI senior scientist will be discussing the evidence for lab vs natural origin.
brookings.edu/events/biosafe…

While it may be tempting to view the ordeal of Dr. Zhang Yongzhen, arguably China's best virus hunter, as a case of retribution for his COVID-related research, the reality is likely more nuanced and complex. My take. thinkglobalhealth.org/article/virus-…

Vor dem Besuch von #Chinas Präsident Xi Jinping in #Frankreich : Sikyong Penpa Tsering, Präsident der #tibetischen Exilregierung, trifft Präsident #Macron bei einer Preisverleihung im Élysée-Palast und fordert ihn auf, sich für #Tibet einzusetzen. PM lesen:
savetibet.de/aktuelle-nachr…

Chinese citizen-journalist and RSF press freedom laureate Zhang Zhan (张展) is supposed to be released from jail on May 13, 2024. The journalist and former lawyer was arrested in May 2020, while covering the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic in Wuhan. She had posted more than a…

🚨 Huawei is secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities including Harvard through Washington-based Optica Foundation, an arm of the nonprofit professional society Optica, whose members’ research on light underpins technologies such as communications,…

Russia’s Gazprom recently announced that for the first time it has overtaken Turkmenistan as China’s largest supplier of natural gas in terms of volume, based on this year’s first quarter statistics. 1/
eurasianet.org/turkmenistans-…

Despite Gazprom providing China with more gas, it generated less income than its Turkmen counterpart. This volume-earnings differential shows that China has growing leverage to extract more gas from Russia at lower prices, as Russia seeks ways to fund its war in Ukraine. 4/

Anke Redl and Frank Sieren enjoyed their CCP-paid 'Xizang' propaganda trip +conference on 23 May.
Is sb. like Redl the right person to represent german-films.de and its values, BKM Kultur & Medien, at the German Film Festival in Beijing with #goetheinstitut + Auswärtiges Amt?

🚨Ce soir dans #EnvoyéSpécial , découvrez le reportage qui dérange la #Chine !

Menaces, hack : Antoine Izambard Elise Lucet reviennent sur les événements impensables des dernières heures pour empêcher la diffusion.

📺La Chine fait-elle la police en France ?⏯ bit.ly/ES-020524

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik China Studies Vienna Universität Wien in einem sehr informativen Interview bei
'Jung und Naiv' zu #China , dessen innenpolitische und geopolitische Rolle, Xi Jinping und warum für diese Analyse ein historischer Blick wichtig ist #sinologie youtube.com/live/r06TMV432…

Révélations de Challenges et Envoyé spécial sur la tentative de retour forcé menée en France par la #Chine contre un dissident chinois. Une opération invraisemblable intervenue un mois avant la venue de Xi Jinping en France.

challenges.fr/monde/asie-pac…

''I think I'm going to be arrested and sent back to China': How Beijing is prosecuting its opponents in France'
News report in France 2 (in French), May 1st
'..Ling Huazhan was escorted by members of a Franco-Chinese friendship association..'
francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazin…

'The magazine 'Envoy Special' reveals how China pursues its opponents all the way to France' (in French only), (TV France 2, 20 min), May 1st, 2024
#TransnationalRepression #china #globalchina
francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazin…

A Chinese police operation in Paris to coerce dissident with involvement of Chinese diplomats.
And then pressure on protagonist to halt airing of evidence by threatening relatives in China. Of course Chinese embassy denies everything.
Watch the evidence
francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazin…

#phoenixRunde : Die neue Weltmacht – Wie umgehen mit #China ? Bei Anke Plättner:
- Moritz Moritz Schularick, Präsident Kiel Institute (IfW Kiel)
- Mareike Ohlberg, Asien-Expertin GMF Indo-Pacific
- Felix Lee, Felix Lee
- Silke Besser, 🇩🇪-🇨🇳Wirtschaftsvereinigung
📲 youtube.com/watch?v=7F9P95… 📺 21:00

5月1日，张永振发文表示，感谢网友以及社会各界的支持，经过和上级部门协调，现初步同意先恢复实验室正常科研活动，目前团队成员暂时可以自由进出实验室。而公卫中心就实验室的搬迁方案等事项进一步协商解决。
微博话题#上海公共卫生临床中心范小红迫害科学家#已被平台下架。

Not wanting to discourage his social media followers, 李老师不是你老师 had been reluctant to share the full extent of the PRC’s transnational repression against him.

Until now.

Due to the incessant attacks on his parents, he now tells the full story👇safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/teache…