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How China fell off the miracle path
NY Times
After years of rapid growth, China has taken on so much debt that its economy is at great risk.
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Is China’s authoritarianism decaying into personalised rule?
East Asia Forum
Centralisation of power in China may reflect political decay, rather than the revival of the authoritarian state.
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How China’s skewed sex ratio is making President Xi’s job a whole lot harder
The Conversation
China's surplus of unmarriageable men poses a stark dilemma for Xi and other leaders as they set the country's economic course for the next five years.
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Alibaba and tencent: disrupting china, dozens of industries at a time
Stratfor
As the two biggest tech companies in China move into more and more sectors, Beijing will have to find new ways to adapt to their increasing clout.
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Detention of Uighurs must end, un tells china, amid claims of prison camps
Support the Guardian
Committee cites reports that ‘tens of thousands to upwards of a million’ Muslim Chinese are being held, as US lawmakers call for sanctions
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Leave no dark corner
ABC News
Dandan Fan's every move will soon be watched and judged by her government, and she's happy about that. Social credit will unite Big Brother and big data to coerce more than a billion people.
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State-owned enterprises are a hard habit china doesn't want to break
Stratfor
State-owned enterprises remain the preferred engine for Beijing to drive the country's economy, which worries the private sector at home and abroad.
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State dept. Official: china holding 800k muslim minorities in internment camps
The Hill
State Department official Scott Busby told senators this week that China has detained at least 800,000 Muslim minorities in internment camps. 
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Beijing turns to facial recognition to combat public housing abuses
Public housing abuses
The smart lock is one of the latest hi-tech tools authorities are using to keep an eye on its citizens
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How china plans to grade 1.3 billion people
Bloomberg QuickTake
China wants to grade its people based on how good or bad a citizen they have been. A dozen cities are already testing different systems with the government a...
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China through a glass, darkly
China Law Translate
A translation of China's A popular overview and discussion of the most common misconceptions in China's social credit system.
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China tests opening up social credit scores to social media platform WeChat with debt map
ABC News
The latest tool to be piloted as part of China's Social Credit System pinpoints on the map those deemed "untrustworthy" and blacklisted, all from the palm of their hand.
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Harvested alive -10 years investigation of force organ harvesting
Deerpark Studios
Harvested Alive -Ten year's investigate of force organ harvesting As a doctor, Zhiyuan Wang spent 30 years studying how to save lives. He never imagined that...
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Inside china's high-tech dystopia
Bloomberg QuickTake
In part three of Hello World Shenzhen, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Ashlee Vance heads out into a city where you can't use cash or credit cards, only your smartp...
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The problem with xi’s china model
Foreign Affairs
As Xi begins his second five-year term as CCP general secretary and (soon) president, there are signs that the new model’s very successes are becoming liabilities.
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China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority
The Guardian
The long read: Smartphones and the internet gave the Uighurs a sense of their own identity – but now the Chinese state is using technology to strip them of it
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China’s uyghur ‘re-education’ centers and the ghosts of totalitarians past
War On The Rocks
It is now beyond doubt that China is undertaking a program of mass incarceration of the Uyghur population of its northwestern province of Xinjiang (which
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How the west got china's social credit system wrong
Wired
It occupies a spot next to 'Black Mirror' and Big Brother in popular imagination, but China’s social credit project is far more complicated than a single, all-powerful numerical score.
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New research: china is winning some health-care battles — and losing others
NPR
A suite of new research shows the country beating infectious diseases over the last two decades. But deaths from lifestyle-related diseases like cancer and diabetes are on the rise.
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A million people are jailed at china's gulags. I managed to escape. Here's what really goes on inside
Haaretz
Rape, torture and human experiments. Sayragul Sauytbay offers firsthand testimony from a Xinjiang 'reeducation' camp
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Communists are fascinated by contradictions. China faces a big one
Economist
It needs global help to grow, so its rulers may have to rethink their obsession with domestic control
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Absolutely no mercy: leaked files expose how china organized mass detentions of muslims
NY Times
More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.
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Exposed: china’s operating manuals for mass internment and arrest by algorithm
ICIJ
A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s system of mass surveillance.
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China government spreads uyghur analytics across china
IPVM
IPVM has found 12 recent government projects across China (PRC) that require Uyghur analytics and a general government guideline requiring such analytics.
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China’s successful repression in Tibet provides a model for Xinjiang
The Economist
A little-remarked anniversary is a reminder of China’s victory against dissent