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Twitter users in China reportedly held by government amid crackdown — CNET

Twitter users in China are facing threats, lengthy interrogations and even days in a detention center after posting messages critical of the Chinese government,...

Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school students from 2020 — Quartz Africa

Kenya will teach Mandarin in classrooms  in a bid to improve job competitiveness and facilitate better trade and connection with China, writes Abdi Latif...

Censoring China’s internet, for stability and profit — The New York Times

Thousands of low-wage workers in “censorship factories” trawl the online world for forbidden content, writes Li Yuan. Here is the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/business/china-internet-censor.html

How China’s elite hackers stole the world’s most valuable secrets — Wired

A new Justice Department indictment outlines how Chinese hackers allegedly compromised data from companies in a dozen countries in a single intrusion, writes Brian...

China launched more rockets into orbit in 2018 than any other country — MIT Technology Review

Privately funded space startups are changing China’s space industry. And even without their help, China is poised to become a space power on par...