I am a PRC transnational repression magnet, which has been disastrous and oddly stimulating (intellectually only). Been living a nomadic lifestyle which has been fun but a little exhausting. Hoping to settle somewhere soon, that comes with reasonable protection, good beaches,

Heart breaking stuff here from Vicky Xu / 許秀中.

Australian residents like her, Andrew J Phelan, Clive Hamilton and Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼 should not have to adopt professional tradecraft to live in their own homes in Australia!

We can do better and must provide security to the people in our

I found this bit in the Four Corners Chinese spy story extremely touching:

Chinese spy 'Eric': “The Communist Party shaped me into an enemy who is committed to the fight against it... Without it, I am just a young man who likes to read books, play games, love animals, and

In light of the recent Four Corners expose on covert Chinese secret police activities in Australia, I feel it's important to once again highlight my recent encounters with PRC transnational repression.

(Background: I wrote for ASPI about China's minority populations, namely

I assumed when I raised some issues last year that it would be straightforward to deal with. As you can imagine, speaking out on this was my instinct as an activist, but it’s brought pain. I remain hopeful that we can improve our space.

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From Berlin, I reported on the long-term effects of transnational repression facing exiled Chinese journalist Suyutong ⬇️
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Not wanting to discourage his social media followers, 李老师不是你老师 had been reluctant to share the full extent of the PRC’s transnational repression against him.

Until now.

Due to the incessant attacks on his parents, he now tells the full story👇safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/teache…

Monday is the 56th anniversary of the execution of one of the most inspiring public intellectuals in the history of the PRC, Lin Zhao. To commemorate this day, minjiandanganguan has put together most of her work and made it available free to download.

🚨 我們強烈建議所有使用者更新手機上的中文拼音輸入法

Citizen Lab 公民實驗室在八家廠商的雲端拼音輸入法中發現了一系列嚴重漏洞: @Baidu 百度、榮耀、訊飛、OPPO、三星、騰訊、Vivo

IS AUSTRALIA PURSUING “FINLANDISATION”?

As Chancellor of the University of Queensland, Peter Varghese masterminded the university’s strategy to expel me as a student for protesting on campus against CCP human rights abuses.

Now the Albanese government has appointed Varghese to

The Ministry of State Security's latest anti-spy video, made for National Security Education Day, puts forth an almost impossibly paranoid vision of society: street fashion photographers, lab technicians, WeChat sexters, businessmen, even food delivery orderers—all might be spies

SCOOP: A TikTok data scientist says he was assigned a Seattle-based manager on paper, while actually reporting to a Beijing-based ByteDance executive, who ordered him to regularly email U.S. data in spreadsheets to ByteDance workers in China during 2022. fortune.com/2024/04/15/tik…

並沒打算去中國吃牢飯謝謝🙏 rfa.org/cantonese/news…

As relations between China and Australia settle, there has been no mention of Vicky Xu / 許秀中 , or the many other Australian citizens and residents targeted by the Chinese state on Australian soil.

Read the full article by Vicky Xu at the link in bio.

We express sincere welcome the bipartisan parliamentary delegation of Shayne Neumann , Andrew Wallace, Julian Hill MP , Dave Sharma and Angie Bell MP to visit Taiwan, demonstrating the high level of support and deepening the mutually beneficial relationship between TW & AUS.

Read this article by Vicky Xu / 許秀中 in The Saturday Paper on what it is like to be under constant surveillance by China in Australia.

China has become bolder with transnational repression against human rights activists, but states are failing to push back enough. Greater support is needed.