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@turquoiseroof.orgReposted by @c4ads.orgNew FNVA report by Rinzin Namgyal (with research support by @c4ads.org) traces how China Mobile & China Telecom underpin #surveillance in Tibet, documenting ¥38.7m in contracts for facial recognition, data networks & policing systems, including around #Kirti Monastery.
@c4ads.orgRussia's war on Ukraine is sustained by a global network that supplies weapons, parts, labor, and channels for sanctions evasion. C4ADS and partners are working together to reveal the scope of the network and what stakeholders can do to disrupt it.
@c4ads.orgC4ADS team members led a session at the Global Gathering’s Journalism Salon on how to safely handle dangerous data. They detailed strategies and tactics to assess risky sources, limit exposure, and conduct analysis responsibly. Thank you @teamcommunity.bsky.social for having us!
@c4ads.orgWe were delighted to host 20 Humphrey Fellows from around the world at C4ADS HQ in August – sharing more about the C4ADS mission and some of the data-driven analysis we’ve been working on lately. Thank you for stopping by!
@tibetwatch.orgReposted by @c4ads.org'Eyes Above the Plateau' traces the expansion of aerial surveillance in Tibet through #Chinese govt dox, inc police tenders, procurement contracts, training records, flight restrictions + official bulletins since 2017: phayul.com/china-expand...
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@tibetwatch.orgReposted by @c4ads.org“The Tibetan people are now forced to live in the kind of police state envisioned by George Orwell," says Lord David Alton in response to our report on drones in #Tibet , calls upon Britain to restrict the police’s use of Chinese-made drones www.voachinese.com/a/tibet-dron... @c4ads.org
@tibetwatch.orgReposted by @c4ads.orgNew from @c4ads.org : how the same architecture of surveillance + control underpins #China’s presence in Tibet, Uyghur region, Inner Mongolia + Hong Kong, built on procurement networks designed to stay a step ahead of sanctions and export controls c4ads.org/reports/moni...
@c4ads.orgNew from @euromaidanpress.bsky.social: Russian satellite network Rassvet is closing the gap on jam-proof battlefield comms fast. We confirmed that the manufacturer is still absent from every Western sanctions list — and that fixing that is the clearest option left.
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@c4ads.org the report reveals how police buy drones for areas where tough crackdowns have been imposed for resistance to China's anti -Dalai Lama and land use policies 2/7
@jamyang.netReposted by @c4ads.orgEssential reading: C4ADS' "Monitoring the Frontier" builds an original dataset from PRC government procurement records to map who actually supplies the #surveillance state: #Tibet as prototype, #Xinjiang as scale-up:
@c4ads.orgOur findings show exactly where these gaps sit, and give regulators the evidence to close them. 6/6
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@c4ads.orgIn Hong Kong, the French firm Thales (via a subsidiary) won two direct Hong Kong Police Force contracts to build and maintain biometric identification systems. 5/6
@c4ads.orgIn Inner Mongolia, Hikvision equipment made up over half the value of a 2023 "Sharp Eyes" camera contract, delivered through an unsanctioned distributor. 4/6
@c4ads.orgPublic security bureaus show up as the buyer in most of the regions we looked at. Sanctioned manufacturers like Uniview and Hikvision also appear in the contracts, but rarely as direct suppliers. 3/6
@c4ads.orgIn Monitoring the Frontier, we mapped these patterns out through four regions. C4ADS analysts built an original dataset from government procurement and corporate records spanning Tibet, the Uyghur region, Inner Mongolia, and Hong Kong. 2/6
@c4ads.orgNEW: China's surveillance supply chains run through distributors built to keep sanctioned manufacturers hidden — and existing sanctions and export controls have yet to catch up to how the equipment actually moves. 🧵 1/6
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@jamyang.netReposted by @c4ads.orgNext week: @c4ads.org *Monitoring the Frontier* on China's #surveillance in Tibet, the Uyghur region, Inner Mongolia, & Hong Kong, and my new Tibet Watch piece on UAVs in Tibet. Sanctioned firms' kit still reaches police via domestic distributors. Turquoise Roof's previous report on this 👇
@c4ads.org@tomshardware.com covered our new report, Covert Compute, on how export-restricted AI chips continue to reach China despite restrictions. We mapped 3 pathways: research-institution buys, drop-shipping, and shell companies (including $4.6B linking to one entity alone).
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@c4ads.orgC4ADS Senior Analyst Allen Maggard spoke to @kyivindependent.com in support of a recent investigation into the flow of Western precision machinery into the Russian defense industry, despite sanctions — suggesting that the real leverage point is now the aftermarket.
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@hongkongwatch.bsky.socialReposted by @c4ads.orgYesterday, we launched an explosive report at @c4ads.org in Washington, DC, revealing how sanctions loopholes have allowed 🇺🇸 investment to flow to 🇨🇳 military companies.
