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London, 7 November 2026. China’s Commerce Ministry on Saturday opposed US sanctions against two Chinese companies over their dealings with Cuba, called for the measures to be reversed and reserved the right to act. Washington alleges that CEIEC and Beijing H&C Technologies supplied equipment through a Cuban arms procurement company to sustain Cuba’s military. The imposition of sanctions and the supply allegations require separate assessment: official records establish that re

MACAO, 6 November 2026 Macao’s Court of First Instance on 6 November imposed a combined prison sentence of 12 years and six months on former pro-democracy legislator Au Kam San for subversion, contacts with overseas organisations endangering national security, and breach of secrecy. The court described it as the first case under the territory’s national security law since the special administrative region was established. Its statement and independent wire reporting corrobora

Source archive · Original analysis by China Rights Monitor. Evidence cut-off: undefined. Original source A CRM source-led analysis of Safeguard Defenders’ 2026 prison survey, its evidential value, limitations and relevance to asylum and judicial proceedings. 1. The news facts: what has happened This article examines forced labour, violence, medical neglect and accountability inside Chinese prisons. Safeguard Defenders published a survey based on questionnaires completed by 59

Source archive · Original analysis by China Rights Monitor. Evidence cut-off: undefined. Original source The new law’s broad concepts raise concerns for minority language, culture, religion, peaceful advocacy and potential transnational repression. 1. The news facts: what has happened This article examines China’s Ethnic Unity Law and its implications for minority language, culture, religion and peaceful advocacy abroad. China’s Ethnic Unity Law entered into force on 1 July 2

LONDON, 30 September 2026 MI5 on 30 September issued its first independently published public espionage alert, alleging that the China General Technology Research Institute, or CGTRI, has “very strong ties” to China’s Ministry of State Security and exists primarily to fund academic research that directly improves the ministry’s technical capability for espionage. The organisation is also translated as the China Academy of General Technology. MI5 alert webpage; full alert The

BEIJING/HONG KONG, 29 September 2026 Calls for a “genuine break” have surged across Chinese social media ahead of the National Day holiday. Reuters reported on 29 September that a Weibo topic arguing that opposition to holiday make-up work should not be ignored had attracted about 360 million views and 120,000 discussions. Some users said they would reduce spending on travel, food delivery and ride-hailing to protest against converting weekends into working days and against t

UNITED NATIONS/JAKARTA, 28 September 2026 Five years after President Xi Jinping pledged that China would stop building new coal-fired power projects overseas, a new assessment reported by the Associated Press on 26 September finds that the China-linked coal pipeline has contracted sharply while private investment and “captive” power plants serving mineral-processing complexes remain substantial gaps. The study says 67 per cent of the capacity that was planned when the pledge

Washington/Beijing, 26 September 2026 China's government on Saturday published eight “deliverables and understandings” reached during Xi Jinping's visit to the United States. They covered the bilateral relationship, reciprocal summit attendance, Iran, Second World War history, trade, counter-narcotics and law-enforcement co-operation, artificial intelligence and giant pandas, with a separate reference to military crisis communications. The list did not include human rights, r

Taipei/Washington, 25 September 2026 Chinese President Xi Jinping asked the United States to adopt a position of opposing Taiwanese independence during his talks with US President Donald Trump. An account issued by China's Foreign Ministry on 25 September said Xi hoped Washington would “adhere to the correct position of opposing ‘Taiwan independence’” and handle the issue cautiously in order to support strategic co-operation between the two countries. Chinese Foreign Ministry

Washington, 24 September 2026 (as of 3pm EDT) US President Donald Trump held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House on Thursday. Before the meeting, a US official said Trump was likely to raise the cases of two American citizens whom the United States considers wrongfully detained. Their families also said they had been told that the president would ask Xi to release them. By the time of publication, however, neither the White House nor the Chinese governm

Wellington, 24 September 2026 New Zealand's National Cyber Security Centre, or NCSC, published its annual assessment on Thursday and described China as the most persistent and capable state actor conducting cyber activity in the country. It said suspected foreign-state operations had targeted New Zealand government agencies, health and education organisations and information-technology managed-service providers during the past year, placing sensitive information at risk. NCSC

Beijing and Lhasa, 22 September 2026 China's Communist Party appointed Hu Changsheng as secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Party Committee on Tuesday, replacing Wang Junzheng after almost five years in office. The party secretary is the region's most senior political official. Xinhua announced the appointment, while Reuters reported the personnel change and Hu's first policy remarks at a meeting of senior officials in Lhasa. Xinhua appointment notice; Reuters Accordin

Beijing, 21 September 2026 China's Politburo on Monday approved the expulsion of Zhang Youxia, formerly the senior vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Liu Zhenli, formerly a commission member and chief of its Joint Staff Department, from the Chinese Communist Party and the armed forces. Their suspected criminal conduct is to be transferred to military prosecutors for review and prosecution. The authorities accused both men of breaching political discipline,

Hong Kong, 20 September 2026 Hong Kong held a state funeral on Sunday for Tung Chee-hwa, its first post-handover chief executive. Central-government and Hong Kong officials presented him as a patriot and an important contributor to 'one country, two systems'. Contemporary international coverage, however, also returned to the first attempt under his administration to enact national-security legislation under Article 23 of the Basic Law, the demonstration of about half a millio

Washington, 19 September 2026 Bipartisan members of both houses of the United States Congress are promoting companion resolutions calling upon the Trump administration to make the safe return of two American scholars, Youlin Chen and Min Zin, a priority in its dealings with China ahead of President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington next week. The proposals also urge the Secretary of State to consider raising the mainland China travel advisory from Level 2 to Level 3, adding th

Guangzhou/Beijing, 18 September 2026 The five-year prison term imposed upon Chinese independent journalist and women's-rights advocate Sophia Huang Xueqin ended on Friday. The judgment in her case gave 18 September 2026 as her release date after crediting the time she had spent in custody since September 2021. She was also sentenced to four years' deprivation of political rights. The official English text of China's Criminal Law hosted by the Supreme People's Court says that

Washington/Beijing, 17 September 2026 The wife of Min Zin, a US scholar of Myanmar politics, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific on Wednesday and urged President Donald Trump to seek her husband's release when he is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next week. Min Zin was detained by Chinese state-security authorities after travelling to Kunming, Yunnan, for an academic event on 3 June and has now been held for more

Washington/Hong Kong, 16 September 2026 The Republican chair and co-chair of the bipartisan, bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Senator Dan Sullivan and Representative Chris Smith, announced on Wednesday that they had introduced the Jimmy Lai Hong Kong Political Prisoner Accountability Act of 2026. Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley joined them. The draft would require the United States Government to investigate responsibility where a Hong Kong political pris

Beijing, 15 September 2026 New Chinese exit and entry regulations took effect on Tuesday, placing three categories of Chinese citizens within an expressly stated administrative framework for exit bans. They include people found to have engaged abroad in unlawful or criminal conduct that harms national security or interests, and those who violate export-control or technology import and export rules in a manner that may endanger national industrial or technological security. Th

San Francisco/Beijing, 13 September 2026 US artificial-intelligence company Anthropic says it has banned multiple China-linked accounts that used Claude for intelligence collection, profiling and cross-border surveillance. Its threat-intelligence report, published on 10 September, says the targets included Uyghurs in Syria, senior Catholic figures in Asia, leaders of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, Tibetan groups, Falun Gong communities, Hong Kong democrats, organisers of