#SummitForDemocracy Intersession Remark: We must leverage all we have to ensure that democracy’s revival is our top priority. Dedicate this speech to all my friends in Hong Kong. @POTUS

I've come across posts like this many, many times – praising China's safety while denouncing democracies that spend too much time debating "freedoms." I get it. I don't want to live somewhere I have to watch my surroundings constantly. But safety isn't the price you pay for freedom. Taiwan, Japan, and Korea are among the safest places. You can walk the streets at 2 a.m without a second thought, and none of them required a surveillance state to get there. Culture, state capacity, and enforcement all shape this, no single model owns it. China's version comes down to a tyrannical policing and surveillance apparatus that makes the personal cost of committing even petty crime extraordinarily high. But that same apparatus is also the one that disappears the lawyer, the journalist, the dissident. Europe may have a problem, but China is not the answer to it. Hinting that the problem is having too much “freedom debate” is such a bad take.

It's been 37 years since the June 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, when countless peaceful pro-democracy protesters were killed in Beijing. To this day, the Chinese government has failed to accept responsibility for its crimes. Learn more:

NEW: Xinjiang has the highest detention capacity in the world, according to FT analysis - enough space for almost 1 in 40 people in the region - more than five years after the Chinese govt announced the camps had closed.

Each American CEO came to China with a specific issue they wanted to address. Nearly all of them left empty-handed. Most intriguing in this piece was the confirmation that China had indeed blocked Maxwell from selling solar manufacturing equipment to Elon Musk.

EXCLUSIVE: How the track foreigners in China - We got rare access to demo system developed by the Ministry of Public Security in China for the prefecture of Zhangjiakou, to track and surveil foreigners visiting or being residents ( actually it applies to most nationals as well, but in this case it seems to be aimed at foreigners ). It is officially known as "Dynamic control platform for overseas personnel". 1/12

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: The Telegraph can reveal a secret Chinese surveillance platform used to track foreigners, journalists and individuals deemed “of interest” to the state @sophia_yan explains how the platform's records label her as "trackable" ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…

A team of seven researchers published the first peer-reviewed evidence that China’s state-controlled media has worked its way into the training data of AI chatbots that the world increasingly relies on. wsj.com/world/china/the-hidd…

Last week, while the world watched President Trump and Xi Jinping meet in Beijing, a much quieter piece of research dropped in Nature. It should have been on every front page. @Lingling_Wei wsj.com/world/china/the-hidd…

CFR expert @RushDoshi explains what to expect from the Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing this week.

🚨 NEW: A UK immigration officer has been found guilty of working for China Chi Leung "Peter" Wai, 38, used his access to the main immigration database to track Hong Kong dissidents based in the UK

UK immigration officer among two men guilty of working for Chinese intelligence bbc.in/4w6iW3k

//Wai and Yuen were found guilty by a majority verdict at the Old Bailey. The Times can reveal that the pair were arrested after a long-running investigation by MI5. Their convictions are the first relating to Chinese espionage in British history.// thetimes.com/uk/crime/articl…

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HK police can now demand phone passwords under new national security rules bbc.in/47CjeVh

Men on trial accused of 'shadow policing' for China on British soil bbc.in/4sn9QN1

EXCL: The partner of a sitting Labour MP is understood to be among three people who have been arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of spying for China. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

The fate of jailed former Hong Kong media mogul and longtime China critic Jimmy Lai is in focus at this year’s State of the Union, with his daughter Claire Lai in attendance at the Capitol as a guest of House Speaker Mike Johnson. It comes just weeks after her 78-year-old father was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Hong Kong court. Claire Lai has described the sentence as “heartbreakingly cruel.” The United States and other governments have repeatedly called for Lai’s release. In fact, President Trump reportedly pressed Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the issue during their talks last year. Both Beijing and Hong Kong’s government have repeatedly rejected international criticism of Lai’s prosecution and warned against what they call foreign “interference.” Claire Lai’s appearance in Washington is drawing renewed attention to her father’s case -- just weeks before President Trump’s planned trip to Beijing in April. cnn.com/politics/live-news/t…

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