Deputy Asia director @hrw. Also distinguished fellow @asu_ldns. Email: wangm(at)hrw(dot)org.

As Trump hosts Xi today, human rights are unlikely to be on the agenda. The press will speculate on what deals they will make, when the focus should be what kind of world they will make, and whether other govts & people will stand up to them *both* in defense of basic rights.
US President Donald Trump is welcoming Chinese leader Xi Jinping to Washington, DC. Both leaders’ attacks on human rights have a global impact. Human rights are non-negotiable. World leaders should reject Xi and Trump’s attack on human rights.
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Social media report of a noticeable police presence in Kwong Fuk Estate, a housing project next to fire ravaged Wang Fuk Court; police were deployed to deter "illegal gatherings" after somebody online suggested people to gather to celebrate Mid-Autumn & show community solidarity
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Chen was named in this excellent 2022 report by @hkdc_us & @SFTHQ, along with other United Front figures. To this date, there's been no accountability concerning any of the assaults or intimidation. hkdc.us/ccpexportingrepressi… (p.16)
🚨 MUST WATCH: Leaked footage shows CCP agents executing transnational repression right at the White House gates. Tactical gear. Synchronized movements. Direct violence against anti-Xi protesters, including pepper-spraying faces at close range. Foreign state agents assaulting people on US soil cannot be ignored. The man holding the megaphone in the video is the infamous "King of Brooklyn - Chen Shanzhuang," who was responsible for organizing and carrying out the beatings of dissidents during the 2023 APEC meeting. #CCP #TransnationalRepression #XiJinping #Taiwan
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Study Times has an article proposing a large-scale social media monitoring and info manipulation system that uses AI to collect, aggregate, classify grassroots concerns & turns it into targeted messaging to the individuals. VR is mentioned for targeting. paper.studytimes.cn/app_cnth…
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Tibet adopted decision to implement the National Ethnic Unity Law, becoming the 1st minority region to do so. It also passes a related decision to strengthen the "Three Consciousness". These form an ideological framework...
Tibet rubber-stamp legislature agenda says it's deliberating draft measures to implement the national Ethnic Unity and Progress Law. Let's see how it goes: xizang.gov.cn/xwzx_406/zwyw/… On the law, see: hrw.org/news/2025/09/28/chin…
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Tibet adopted decision to implement the National Ethnic Unity Law, becoming the 1st minority region to do so. It also passes a related decision to strengthen the "Three Consciousness". These form an ideological framework...
Tibet rubber-stamp legislature agenda says it's deliberating draft measures to implement the national Ethnic Unity and Progress Law. Let's see how it goes: xizang.gov.cn/xwzx_406/zwyw/… On the law, see: hrw.org/news/2025/09/28/chin…
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...requiring schools, Buddhist institutions, grassroots governance, legislative processes and administrative supervision to ensure that education, religion, laws etc will promote "ethnic unity". Officials threatened with consequences for failure to do so. xzxw.com/zw/zcfg/2026-09/24/…
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Beijing makes Hong Kong into an AI hub; HKG then reaches out to Europe for AI collaboration: info.gov.hk/gia/general/2026… & hkstp.org/en/park-life/news-… The mission aims to forge "pathways for Hong Kong's leading AI ventures into Europe's industrial core."
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...and a whole generation of Americans learn that human rights and democracy are "sensitive" and to self-censor if they want to continue their China access and career. Yes, that sounds about right.
I just don’t see it. Americans are generally far too risk adverse and cowardly. This aspect of our culture should be stamped out not incited. Vast majority of students will not come close to risking detention. More likely to get a gruesome disease in the developing world than locked away in China. Academic freedom doesn’t matter. Students can swallow restrictions on academic freedom for a semester and see what that feels like. They will learn something from the experience. They must understand that going to China means temporarily sacrificing certain freedoms—freedoms of association, speech, and religion. They should understand this before they go. But it is not a reason not to go.
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Could major media outlets please stop omitting the fact that #China Peng Liyuan once serenaded troops at #Tiananmen in 1989? Nothing “effortlessly glamorous” about that.
She chatted with US first lady Melania Trump in English without a translator, and sang along quietly when serenaded by a youth choir, looking effortlessly glamorous in a modern take on a traditional Chinese outfit. On Chinese President Xi Jinping's Washington trip, his wife Peng Liyuan is his soft power superweapon, projecting a gentler, more approachable image of China, despite its disputes with the United States over everything from trade to Taiwan reut.rs/3TnppZ6
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On the evening of September 24, China Action, a New York–based human rights organization, held a peaceful protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. During the protest, individuals from the Chinese Embassy allegedly physically attacked participants. The vehicle and projector equipment used by the activists were also damaged. If confirmed, these incidents raise serious concerns about foreign interference, intimidation, and transnational repression carried out on U.S. soil by representatives or agents linked to the Chinese government. We urge the FBI and other relevant U.S. authorities to investigate the incident, preserve available evidence, and determine whether any U.S. laws were violated. @FBI @CECCgov
当地时间9月24日晚,美国华盛顿特区中国使馆外,抗议者被中方人员袭击。当地警方赶到后,中方人员退回到使馆内。
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We could hear a group of protesters from the White House North Portico during President Xi’s arrival for the state dinner. The crowd shouted chants including: "Xi Jinping, You're Not Welcome," "Free Hong Kong," "Keep Taiwan Free,””Justice for Uyghurs” & "China Sponsors Genocide”
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示威者的声音在乐队的音乐掩盖下,仍然能够听到。
anti-Xi protesters can still be heard, despite a band trying to drown them out, as Trump and Xi pose for photos
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白宫里面的人都在听我们的抗议
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anti-Xi protesters can still be heard, despite a band trying to drown them out, as Trump and Xi pose for photos
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"Free Hong Kong! Free Hong Kong! Free Tibet!" -- anti-Xi protesters are making their voices heard ahead of tonight's state dinner
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Donald Trump is rolling out the red carpet for President Xi—a notorious human rights abuser with a long history of repression. Our message to President Trump is clear: No Xi in DC without human rights ON THE AGENDA!
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前北京科技报记者,著名食品领域科普博主洪广玉,被辽宁警方以“寻衅滋事”罪赴厦门跨省抓捕。刑事拘留在大连看守所。并且不让会见律师。
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A better video of the moment Peng Liyuan stepped out & Chinese protesters were tackled by suspected Chinese government agents (khaki hats), police quickly intervened.
紧急情况‼️ 彭丽媛出来了,抗议现场,中共雇佣打手打压抗议人员!
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Another video showing how suspected Chinese agents (the ones in khaki cap + masks) directed the silencing of protesters to ensure that Peng Liyuan doesn't see them. The protesters were tackled and pepper-sprayed.
彭丽媛从佛利尔美术馆出来的时候我们中国民主党发出了自己的声音,然后我们被中国特工打了,并且被喷辣椒水。 中國民主黨全委會到达战场, 打倒中国共产党打倒习近平, 打倒中国共产党, 无耻习近平, 中国共产党滚出美国。 吃点狗粮觉得自己是鹰犬了。
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