Juliet Wei
Juliet Wei covers China news and U.S.-China relations and has worked as a correspondent with Senate and House Correspondent Credential at Washington DC. She holds an M.A. in Specialized Journalism from the University of Southern California.
Chinese Phones Sold in Taiwan Accused of Content Censorship, Users’ Private Data May Be Tracked by Beijing
After the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense revealed that the Mi 10T 5G smartphone sold by Chinese company Xiaomi in Europe 2021 could censor approximately 450 words and phrases, the Taiwan National Communications Commission of Taiwan...
Xi Jinping’s First Military Order of 2022 Hints at Regime Instability Ahead of 20th Party Congress
News analysis On Jan. 4, Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued Military Order No. 1 to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the first task the communist regime’s armed forces received this year. Though the order is...
Public Outrage Erupts in China After Xi’an Man Dies of Angina: ‘Refused by all hospitals’ Daughter Writes on Social Media
Xi'an, the ancient capital of China, has been under a stringent citywide lockdown since Dec. 23 after a surge in COVID-19 cases. In addition to not being allowed to leave their homes, residents have reported a...
Xi’an Sets Up Makeshift Hospitals to Contain Outbreak; Residents Complain of Food Shortages Under Lockdown
The COVID-19 outbreak in Xi'an city has become increasingly severe. According to videos and photos posted on Twitter, Xi'an constructed the "Fang Cang (mobile Cabin) Hospital" practically overnight. These are quarantine buildings like those that...
Blinken Urges Beijing to Release Journalists Detained in Hong Kong’s Stand News Police Raid
Stand News, the Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet was shut down on Dec. 29 after its office was raided by police and its assets frozen over offenses of "seditious publication" in the latest crackdown on...
Chinese Military Deploys Troops as Xi’an Outbreak Worsens
Authorities report only a handful of COVID cases, but locals suspect the real concern is rodent-spread hemorrhagic fever Around 150 medical staff from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) air force have been dispatched to Xi’an,...
90 Communities Locked Down in Xi’an, China After COVID-19 Spike; Grocery Shopping Allowed Once Every 2 Days
Videos shared on Chinese social media sites show hundreds of people in the northwestern city of Xi'an standing in the cold to get tested for COVID-19. Other footage shows residential entryways lined with barbed wire....
How the CCP Creates Its Narrative: One Company Alone Builds Up a 100-strong ‘50 Cent Army’ Team
Early this year, international brands like Swedish clothing company H&M pledged not to use Xinjiang cotton picked through forced labor by Uyghurs. That statement triggered a “viral” Weibo post coordinated by the Chinese Communist Youth...
US Using Export Control Tools to Sanction Chinese Company SenseTime Group
On Dec. 10, the White House released a “Joint Statement on the Export Controls and Human Rights Initiative” that commits “to use export control tools to prevent the proliferation of software and other technologies used to...
US Holds Joint Exercises ANNUALEX 2021 with Major Global Powers Aimed at Deterring Aggression
On Nov. 30, naval forces from the United States, Australia, Germany, Japan, and Canada concluded ANNUALEX 2021, a nine-day multilateral, multinational annual joint military exercise held in the Philippine Sea. The five participating navies included...
85% of Chinese Ships ‘Disappear’, AIS Base Stations Seized Along China’s Coast
Since early November, the number of vessels sending the Automatic Identification System (AIS) signal from seas around China plunged by 85 percent. On Oct. 28, more than 100,000 ships were broadcasting but, according to global...
Former Inner Mongolia Vice Chairman Yun Gongmin Accused of Collecting Bribes Totalling More Than 400M
On November 24, Yun Gongmin, the former secretary of the Communism Party Committee (CPC) of Erdos City, Inner Mongolia, and the Inner Mongolia provincial vice chairman, was accused of collecting more than 468.66 million yuan...