2026 Issue 31

The French paper, Le Monde, released unseen footage of the massacre of Chinese students in 1989 by the Chinese Communist Party and Human Rights Watch in Australia calls on the Australian government to protect Uyghur-Australians from transnational repression by the CCP.

After months of being held, the U.S. State Department designates Min Zin as “wrongfully detained” by PRC authorities.  The American academic living in Thailand had been critical of the PRC abuses in Myanmar.

Both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times report on how AI models are parroting CCP propaganda based on deliberate actions by the CCP as well as efforts to shape the data available for models that are sympathetic to authoritarian governments.

The European Union opened an investigation into JD.com’s acquisition of a German retailer and the PRC Justice Ministry bared all companies and individuals from assisting in the investigation.  It remains to be seen whether Brussels will capitulate or block the acquisition.

In yet another example of decoupling, Fidelity, one of the world’s largest investment companies, announced that it would be exiting its wholly owned China fund, following earlier exits by other companies.