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  1. Security personnel check the temperature of passengers in the Wharf at the Yangtze River on January 22, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.
    Karen Eggleston on Coronavirus Outbreak and Health Policy Implications
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    Updated January 24
  2. Concept of U,S.-China technology competition: brain-shaped boxing gloves covered in U.S. and China flags facing against each other on a background of a motherboard
    Engineering and Technology Expert Cautions Against U.S. Restrictions on Collaboration with Chinese Nationals
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    As a U.S.-China trade deal hangs in the balance and the world’s two largest economies are locked in a race for technological supremacy, concerns have arisen about China’s counterintelligence threat to the United States. In July 2019, FBI Director Christopher Wray told members of the U.S.
  3. A mix of ethnic Uyghur and Han shopkeepers hold large wooden sticks as they are trained in security measures on June 27, 2017 next to the old town of Kashgar, in the far western Xinjiang province
    The Human Rights Crisis in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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    Shall I tell you why we have brought you here? To cure you! To make you sane! Will you understand, Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands uncured? We are not interested in those stupid crimes that you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. – George Orwell, 1984
  4. Relatives of alleged extrajudicial killings protest against the drug war in Manila; workers pass propaganda posters in North Korea; pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong; ethnic Uyghur and Han shopkeepers are trained in security measures next to Kashgar.
    Shining Light on the Threats to Democracy and Human Rights in Asia
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    Around the world, democracy is in retreat. In its Freedom in the World 2019 report, the independent watchdog organization Freedom House records the 13th consecutive year of global declines in political rights and civil liberties.
  5. Hong Kong in Turmoil: Former Chief Secretary and Scholars Discuss the Protests in Hong Kong
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    On October 1st, with a massive National Day parade down Chang’an Avenue in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China celebrated the 70th anniversary of its establishment in 1949. Like a split-screen T.V., however, on the other side of the border in Hong Kong, black-clad protesters wearing gas masks and goggles undertook one of the most violent protests in Hong Kong SAR since the 1997 handover.
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