SinoTech
China and the U.S. Make Antitrust Moves Against Domestic Tech Giants
Eleanor Runde, Abby Lemert Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 9:01 AM
Lawfare’s biweekly roundup of U.S.-China technology policy and national security news.
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China
What to Do About Xinjiang
Jordan Schneider Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 10:50 AM
How the U.S. can push back on human rights abuses in the region.
International Criminal Court (ICC)
Unpacking the Recent Uighur ICC Complaint Against Chinese Leaders
Tia Sewell Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 1:58 PM
Uighur activist groups filed an ICC complaint against Chinese officials. What’s in the complaint, and how could the ICC exercise its jurisdiction considering China isn’t signed to the Rome Statute?
Foreign Policy Essay
Understanding China’s 'Preventive Repression' in Xinjiang
Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Myunghee Lee, Emir Yazici Sun, Mar 1, 2020, 10:00 AM
If the United States wants to make progress on China's human rights violations, it needs to take China's security concerns seriously.
SinoTech
New Reporting Offers a Glimpse Inside China’s Xinjiang Practices, Renewing Calls for a U.S. Response
Richard Altieri, Benjamin Della Rocca Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 2:07 PM
Lawfare’s biweekly roundup of U.S.-China technology policy news.
Syria
The U.S. Withdrawal From Syria Is an Opportunity for China
Mollie Saltskog, Colin P. Clarke Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 8:00 AM
The announcement that the United States will withdraw its remaining troops from Syria has clear implications for many players with interests at stake in the ongoing civil war. Attention has focused on what the U.S. withdrawal will mean for the Kurds, and whether Turkey will be less restrained, or how Iran and Russia might try to project influence farther east in rebel-held territories retaken from the Islamic State. Noticeably absent from these analyses has been how the withdrawal would affect another great power with vested interests in the Middle East—China.
China
China’s Human Rights Abuses Against Uighurs in Xinjiang
Hilary Hurd Tue, Oct 9, 2018, 8:00 AM
During a 2013 trip to Kazakhstan, Xi Jinping announced the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI)—China’s ambitious plan to enhance its “friendship” with the rest of the world through expanded investments in infrastructure and trade.
Foreign Policy Essay
Cruel to be Kind: Authoritarian Counterinsurgency and the Winning of Hearts and Minds
David Ucko Sun, May 22, 2016, 10:36 AM
Editor's Note: Dictators fight insurgents wrong. Rather than redress grievances and win over the locals, they repress and coopt, tolerating corruption and abuses. David Ucko of National Defense University explores why and how dictators often defeat insurgents despite ignoring the lessons of the US and other democracies.
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