I’ve been writing a lot of stories about state-sponsored cyberespionage by China. The case we’re revealing today is a prime example of this, telling the story of a five-year campaign against one of the key players in 🇩🇪 the Volkswagen group

spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/v… (€)

Important developments, rundown of the research, and methodological insights for identifying state imposed forced labor; focus on Uyghurs in PRC

China Studies Vienna Rune Steenberg Remote Xuar In the #Xinjiang Victims Data base Xinjiang Victims Database, this is the record of the Kazakh artist, performer and cultural entrepreneur Zhanargül Zhumatai 加娜古丽·朱马太 shahit.biz/eng/48985/
She is detained again in China since February 2023 after she spoke about her imprisonment.

Major news: the @ILO adopts new forced labor measurement guidelines that squarely target Uyghur forced labor. Deeply humbled to see that they adopt my work in their new research guidance on state-imposed forced labor. An analysis is below and in the linked article:

China’s leaders have taken for granted free labour from the old, and from adult daughters and daughters-in-law. The state relies on family savings to fund health and social services, too. A coming wave of dementia will test that system to its limits economist.com/china/2024/04/…

Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on government order reuters.com/technology/app…

The April edition of the Inner #Asia #Colloquium will focus on key topics from 📖 'Moral Economic Transitions in the #Mongolian Borderlands: A Proportional Share (UCL Press 2023) by Hedwig A. Waters. See you on 23 April at 15:00 CET at msteams.link/N5CQ (Password: HYyrD8)

'The reason for new arrests and re-arrests is not a recent transgression, but rather travels abroad or religious activity in the past', writes Rune Steenberg in his blog post. Read more about #persecution and #imprisonment of  #Uyghurs and #Kazakhs in #XUAR : remote-xuar.com/post/remote-et… 🛑

The Chinese Studies at the Department of East Asian Studies/University of Vienna is pleased to invite you to the guest lecture of Vivien Chan on 'The Pitch and the Module: hawkers and markets in designing post-
war Hong Kong's New Towns public housing estates'

Fascinating 👇

So Райффайзен Банк is hiring in expanding in Russia.

Traitors of European security, helping Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

NEU: AfD-Politiker Petr #Bystron verweigerte Angaben zu finanziellen Interessen ('Declaration of interests'). Auch eine Firmenbeteiligung des Abgeordneten wirft Fragen auf. 🧵
abgeordnetenwatch.de/recherchen/neb…

“The amount of missing funds was massive ranging from RMB433.8 million to RMB563.7 million, representing over 90% of 🇨🇳 Tianyun’s cash and bank balances and over 45% of Tianyun’s net asset value in its published financial results for the past four years.”

🇭🇰 Securities & Futures

China Studies Vienna Rune Steenberg Remote Xuar Wer das Radiofeature zu 'Wo ist Zhanargül Zhumatay?' (eine seit einem Jahr in #Xinjiang inhaftierte Kasachin) in #Oe1 verpasst hat (dort nur 7 Tage abrufbar), kann es sich auch hier bei DLF noch länger anhören: x.com/Flo_Gu/status/…

“Broad civil society,” “fundamental freedoms”? In #HongKong ? Under #China #XiJinping ?

abgeordnetenwatch.de Michael Kunz @MichaelKunz.bsky.social Wer den Kanzler nicht begleitet: NGOs, Menschenrechtsorganisationen, Friedensforscher.
Wobei sich die Frage aufdrängt, ob die CEOs den Kanzler begleiten oder es nicht eigentlich umgekehrt ist. 🤷🏼‍♂️

HOW CHINESE PROPAGANDA ATTACKS CZECHIA:
“Make (Czechia) suffer as much loss as possible.'

New op-ed on Tencent Media by a writer commenting on military affairs (阿爾法軍事 'Alpha Military'), about the Taiwanese Vice_President-Elect Bi-khim Hsiao 蕭美琴 incident in Prague: Chinese military

🇨🇳China Coast Guard 5303 is 35nm from the 🇵🇭 #Philippines ' coast, blocking the path for 🇵🇭's BRP H Ventura & its escort BRP Gabriella Silang to get to their assigned hydrographic research area north of Scarborough Shoal. They have barely moved this past 8 hours.👇

China condemned the attack on the IRGC base in Syria, but don't condemn the unprecedented drone and missile attack on a sovereign country by their Iranian comrades, whom they fund, instead urging 'all sides' to exercise restraint.

Complete MFA readout translation:

China: Exactly 1 year ago human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife, Xu Yan were detained on their way to the EU Delegation in Beijing.

The EU calls for their immediate & unconditional release.

#FreeYuWensheng #EU4HumanRights
👉 europa.eu/!NYrwJM