January 12, 2023
China: Unprecedented Nationwide Protests Against Abuses
Xi Consolidates Power Amid Covid-19, Economic Challenges
![Protesters hold up blank sheets of white paper](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2022/12/202301asia_china_WR.jpg?h=47033599&itok=gVLtLZVj)
November 28, 2022
China: Respect Right to Peaceful Protest
Unprecedented Nationwide Demonstrations Demand Freedoms
![Chinese police officers block off access to a site where protesters had gathered in Shanghai on November 27, 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2022/11/202211asia_china_protests_0.jpg?h=9eb0d413&itok=GpnHWrIZ)
September 14, 2022
China: Xinjiang Official Figures Reveal Higher Prisoner Count
Half-Million Prosecuted, Imprisoned During Crackdown
![Guard towers on the perimeter wall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2022/09/202209asia_china_xinjiang_prison.jpg?h=d939be01&itok=nZo1uT53)
September 5, 2022
China: New Evidence of Mass DNA Collection in Tibet
Rural Areas, Children Targeted for Intrusive Policing
![Police collecting DNA samples from residents in Dritoe county, Yushu municipality, Qinghai province](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2022/09/202209asia_china_tibet_dna_collection.jpg?h=578dff04&itok=gBkNL3K5)
April 8, 2021
China’s Techno-Authoritarianism Has Gone Global
Washington Needs to Offer an Alternative
![Chinese paramilitary police wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus stand guard near the portrait of Chinese leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Saturday, January 9, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101asia_china_covid.jpg?h=1c9b88c9&itok=53zy0VUW)
December 9, 2020
China: Big Data Program Targets Xinjiang’s Muslims
Leaked List of Over 2,000 Detainees Demonstrates Automated Repression
April 1, 2020
China: Fighting COVID-19 With Automated Tyranny
Government Response Hinged on Invasive New Surveillance Methods
![A security guard monitors people through his augmented reality eyewear equipped with an infrared temperature detector in Hangzhou, China, March 24, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202004asia_china_surveillance.jpg?itok=ueXNnUUx)
August 16, 2019
Data Leviathan: China’s Burgeoning Surveillance State
![A Chinese national flag flutters near surveillance cameras mounted on a lamp post in Beijing, March 15, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201908asia_china_cameras.jpg?itok=_IYOv_pK)
May 1, 2019
China: How Mass Surveillance Works in Xinjiang
‘Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling, Monitoring Strategies
![Images of the IJOP surveillance phone app used in Xinjiang, China.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201905asia_ijop_surveillance.jpg?itok=LqluGXcS)
May 1, 2019
Interview: China’s ‘Big Brother’ App
Unprecedented View into Mass Surveillance of Xinjiang’s Muslims
![Images of the IJOP surveillance phone app used in Xinjiang, China.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201905asia_ijop_surveillance.jpg?itok=LqluGXcS)
December 26, 2018
China’s Bumbling Police State
The only thing protecting human rights from the bureaucracy? Inefficiency.
![A checkpoint in Turpan, Xinjiang. Some of Xinjiang’s checkpoints are equipped with special machines that, in addition to recognizing people through their ID cards or facial recognition, are also vacuuming up people’s identifying information from their](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201904asia_china_photo4.jpg?itok=3kN_0Ov_)
April 18, 2018
Cambridge Analytica, Big Data and China
![A man is pictured at the venue of China International Big Data Industry Expo in Guiyang, Guizhou province May 27, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201804asia_china_big_data.jpg?itok=UTuI6ze9)
February 26, 2018
China: Big Data Fuels Crackdown in Minority Region
Predictive Policing Program Flags Individuals for Investigations, Detentions
![Chinese police patrol a night market near Id Kah Mosque in Xinjiang, a day before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, June 25, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802asia_china_ijop.jpg?itok=9C_-dkD2)