A look at China's Ministry of State Security, which has been reshaped by Xi Jinping to be the primary driver of cyber espionage campaigns like Salt Typhoon
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w... Forums: r/cybersecurity : Per NYT article on CIA director 2023 visit to China to deliver a warning...
A profile of Charlwin Mao, founder of Xiaohongshu or “Little Red Book”, who claims the name references the color of his university Stanford and ex-employer Bain
Mao? [embedded post] Casey Newton / @caseynewton : So the app we've been calling RedNote is actually ... Charlwin Mao's Little Red Book??? Someone please reboot the simulation [embedded post] Mastodo...
A profile of Chen Yixin, a Xi Jinping protégé who heads the Chinese intelligence agency accused of likely steering the Salt Typhoon cyberattacks on the US
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Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022; Putin asked Musk to not activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to Xi Jinping
Regular contacts between world's richest man and America's chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters
How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship
Li Yuan / New York Times : X: @kenroth , @scs_disputes , @scs_disputes , @liyuan6 , @david_mulroney , and @alfonslopeztena LinkedIn: Dr. Nils Seibert , Michael D Pendleton , and Gabriele Iuvinale . F...
How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship
Li Yuan / New York Times : X: @kenroth , @liyuan6 , @scs_disputes , @scs_disputes , @david_mulroney , and @alfonslopeztena LinkedIn: Dr. Nils Seibert , Michael D Pendleton , and Gabriele Iuvinale . F...
Analysis: China's internet had 3.9M websites in 2023, down ~27% from 2017; Chinese-language websites are 1.3% of the global total, down 70% from 4.3% in 2013
and collective online memory — is disappearing in chunks. I searched Jack Ma, Xi Jinping in earlier years and the Great Sichuan Earthquake in 2008 and found, basically, nothing. https://www.nytimes.co...
Sources: in 2019, Donald Trump authorized the CIA to launch a clandestine social media campaign to turn China's public against the government and Xi Jinping
Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign … Mastodon: @kevincollier@mastodon.social . X: @shashj , @shashj , @ericgeller...
China's punishing tech crackdown has undercut the industry's position as the largest and most sought-after employer, leading to high graduate unemployment rates
When Xi Jinping tightened the screws on China's technology industry last year, he escalated a jobs crisis for the youngest … Tweets: @tommackenzietv , @angelazhanghk , and @nerysinchina Tweets: Tom Ma...
Report: Microsoft hid Bing autofill in the US for politically sensitive Chinese names, affecting Windows search; Microsoft blames a technical error
including those of Xi Jinping and Liu Xiaobo—wouldn't appear in the autofill system in English or Chinese. https://www.wsj.com/... Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : @aatilley Microsoft said it had already...