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Bodies pile up at Chinese crematoriums as Covid surges

SHANGHAI: For five days the elderly Chinese woman’s corpse lay decomposing in the Shanghai house she shared with her family before a hearse finally arrived to take away her remains.

Bangkok Post · Jan 3, 2023

Chinese cities reveal COVID cases surpassing national tally

Two Chinese cities reported daily COVID-19 cases that far surpassed the official national tally, in another illustration of the unreliability of data in a country grappling with infections after abruptly ending COVID zero.

Tribune News Service · Dec 24, 2022

Tencent CEO Pony Ma blasts employees for laziness, not cutting costs

Tencent, the world's largest game developer, has had to survive a crackdown in China and a slowing global game market.

Fortune · Dec 23, 2022

Dating apps and Telegram: How China protesters are defying authorities

Opponents of China's anti-COVID measures are resorting to dating apps and social media platforms blocked on the mainland to evade censors, spread the word about their defiance and strategy, in a high-tech game of cat and mouse with police.

Reuters · Nov 29, 2022

China’s COVID protesters, censors play cat-and-mouse game online

Chinese censors are scrambling to scrub references to protest codewords and demonstration hotspots like Xinjiang.

Al Jazeera · Nov 28, 2022

China's planned national digital health code system raises concerns over state surveillance

Beijing plans to develop an integrated online health platform featuring the digital health records of every resident, sparking concerns about intensified state surveillance.

ABC News · Nov 25, 2022

China blocks viral WeChat post criticizing tough Covid policies

BEIJING: A social media post that questioned China’s Covid policies was removed and the author blocked after it went viral on the country’s WeChat platform Tuesday -- speaking to growing public concerns about Beijing’s stance, and the continuing sensitivities over criticism of its outlier approach.

The Times of India · Nov 23, 2022

POINT: Support free speech? You should be rooting for Musk’s Twitter transformation to succeed

Everyone seems to have an opinion on whether an Elon Musk-led Twitter is good for free speech, and much of that debate is happening on Twitter. On the surface, this fact goes a long way to prove the point.

Tribune News Service · Nov 17, 2022

'A Pretty Scary Moment': Dissident Chinese Students Say George Washington University Is Failing Them

The CCP’s tyranny extends even to U.S. college campuses, where Chinese and Taiwanese students fear censorship.

Reason · Nov 11, 2022

TikTok’s ties to China: why concerns over your data are here to stay

Harvesting data is the norm for social media apps, but the question that many have is where it goes and who has access to it

The Guardian - US · Nov 8, 2022