'topics the Optica Foundation singles out in an online post as being 'of interest' include 'undersea and space-based solutions for the global communications grid' and 'high-sensitivity optical sensors and detectors''

Sunells's CEO proclaimed 'Salute to Russia and Putin' when Russia invaded Ukraine.

Now she claims the company doesn't do business in Russia. But plenty of evidence says otherwise. Is the company risking sanctions?

Story via Conor Healy, IPVM

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“Social audits in Xinjiang are a form of fraud, and should be treated as such.” - Adrian Zenz testifying at the China Commission hearing on Factories and Fraud in the PRC: How Human Rights Violations Make Reliable Audits Impossible.

Some really cool tech youtube.com/watch?v=1KEtxT…

Picture Xi Jinping 'strapped into a giant, bureaucratic authoritarian machine...a prisoner of the system.' Sobering assessment of the CCP mindset by former hostage of Beijing Michael Kovrig in POLITICO Ottawa Playbook w/Kyle Duggan bit.ly/3w18Dnf

Honoured to win the 2023 National Newspaper Award for Political Reporting along with Robert Fife for our work on foreign interference.

#journalism matters. #globeandmail

Community Notes vs TikTok Policy

.@NVIDIA sold its first DGX in China to Hikvision, & also sold early DGXs to SenseTime and Megvii.

All 3 firms were then (and now) deeply involved in building up the PRC police state... they have all since been sanctioned for human rights abuses.

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Next up: Biden campaign will stay on Fentanyl.
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Pleased to see that the bill to force TikTok US to divest from ByteDance and subsequently the #CCP has advanced in the U.S. Senate Updates. It is essential that #China be held accountable and not have access to half of America!

#HoldChinaAccountable

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Tech journalists believe they understand the TikTok problem because it's a tech company. But interestingly, tech and China journalists seem to have opposing views here. That divide is telling. IMO tech journalists don't understand China, so they don't understand TikTok.…

Ten Thousand Men of Harvard just sitting there staring as a Taiwanese woman activist is manhandled out of event with the PRC ambassador. 😞😞

I used to make arguments like this all the time. The correct answer to this is America is good and China is bad, and for the sake of the world a country that is good should triumph over a bad one.

BREAKING: TIBETAN AND TAIWANESE HARVARD STUDENTS DISRUPT CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S. XIE FENG'S ADDRESS AT HARVARD

They called out his complicity in advocating for the genocide of Tibet and East Turkestan, destroying HK’s freedoms, and a military invasion of Taiwan.

I was honored to deliver opening remarks alongside with Elisha Wiesel and Dolkun Isa at the two day conference “Disrupting Uyghur Genocide” in New York.

Authorities in Xinjiang have banned Uyghurs from using … TikTok and tools to circumvent censorship, according to a video released from Chinese police, in what experts say could be the beginning of another major crackdown on … Uyghurs. rfa.org/english/news/u…

Gilfoyle makes over $6M/yr writing a newsletter about why tech newsletters are insufferable. He doesn't understand why it's so popular, and he spends his money investing in the least-popular YC hardware companies.

'One thing you can do is to stop letting Chinese researchers into American laboratories' -
Grant Newsham answering question from Gary Palmer re: CCP's Thousand Talents Plan

Two weeks ago, we hosted a X Spaces discussion on TikTok as a security threat. It featured Charles Burton Sinopsis Chung Ching Kwong 鄺頌晴 and Conor Healy IPVM
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