Analysis: Chinese companies aim to install 115K+ US-sanctioned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips in 39 data centers across China's western deserts, mostly in Xinjiang
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ articles/2025-07-08/latest-tariff-pause - shows-limits-of-trump-s-frenzied- dealmaking
Filing: Chinese video surveillance provider Dahua to terminate or exit five government projects in Xinjiang; Hikvision made a similar announcement this month
Reuters : X: @samgoodman22 X: Sam Goodman / @samgoodman22 : After spending years defending them, why would Dahua exit their Xinjiang projects now? Rather than a principled stand, most likely explanat...
Hikvision terminates five contracts with local governments in China's Xinjiang, a move that could shield the company from pressure from the Trump administration
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times :
Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China's yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more
but no one is looking at it. https://www.wired.com/... @WIRED Tori Elliott / @telliotter : There's a lot of talk about China's disinfo/propaganda efforts, but turns out... they're pretty bad at it? Th...
Temu bought six Super Bowl ad slots, likely for tens of millions, to win back US shoppers; US observed sales fell 12.5% MoM in December 2023 and 4.8% in January
the results of running the same commercial 5 times Gabrielle Fonrouge / CNBC : Temu returns to Super Bowl ad slate as lawmaker ire swells X: @tayredacted : Temu used y'all's credit card info to buy tw...
Shein tries to shed its Chinese image, including by denying claims of sourcing its cotton from Xinjiang and staying silent on details of its suppliers in China
Shen Lu / Wall Street Journal :
Tech insiders and academics say most independent Uyghur-run websites ceased to exist as Beijing's crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region unfolded
a future for their own society.” https://www.wired.com/... Masha Borak / @mashaborak : “It's like erasing the life work of thousands and thousands of people to build something—a future for their own s...
Alibaba's Tmall reintroduces H&M products, after a boycott started in March 2021 over Xinjiang comments; H&M stores don't yet appear on Apple Maps or Baidu Maps
Retail giant Hennes & Mauritz AB returned to Chinese e-commerce platform Tmall more than a year after it was removed …
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the enforcement of US laws should be seen as an urgent argument for strengthening encryption, not weakening it
Riana Pfefferkorn / Stanford CIS Blog : Tweets: @hipsterelectron , @decryption , and @christophera Tweets: @hipsterelectron : another bit that made my eyes widen: diffie-hellman key exchange was publ...
An interview with a former Xinjiang prisoner, who details how China extensively uses tech like Hikvision surveillance cameras to facilitate human rights abuses
The rare firsthand account will help investigate human rights abuses — For 10 months in 2018, Ovalbek Turdakun was a prisoner … Tweets: @martijn_grooten and @kennwhite Tweets: @martijn_grooten : I k...