2026 Issue 30

The Department of Homeland Security expanded the list of PRC companies that are blocked from importing to the United States over concerns of Uyghur forced labor given the PRC’s continuing campaign to wipe out the minority Muslim community.

The New York Times reports on a system that the PRC has put in place to monitor and surveil foreigners in the country, a system that can be used to enable exit bans, detentions, and the suppression of Chinese citizens that interact with foreigners.

Chinese Communist Party leaders begin their annual secretive seaside retreat at Beidaihe where the nation’s elite decide the fate of Chinese citizens.

Alice Miller discusses how the Chinese Communist Party has used the myth of the “Century of Humiliation” to stoke xenophobia among Chinese citizens, mislead Chinese citizens into believing that the countries problems are the fault of foreigners, not the CCP’s disastrous policies, and to connect the PRC with countries in the Global South who actually suffered from colonialization.