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Judge John Dorsey of the United States Bankruptcy Court District of Delaware rejected in part and ruled in favor in part of a motion Friday by bankrupt cryptocurrency trading company FTX’s debtors and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors requesting the company’s customer list stay private. Dorsey ruled individual customer names would remain permanently sealed [...]

UK Minister for Security Tom Tugendhat updated Parliament on Tuesday about Chinese “overseas police service stations” on commitments made in parliamentary statements last November and reiterated by Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire Chris Philp in April. Tugendhat told Parliament that the UK has ordered China to close any remaining so-called “police stations” on UK soil, [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday five new criminal cases and four arrests in connection with a multi-agency US task force, known as the Disruptive Technology Strike Force, to keep sensitive technology away from “hostile nation-states.” The criminal cases focused on foreign actors connected with Russia and China who, the DOJ claims, [...]

China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (SNPC) Wednesday passed revised amendments to the nation’s anti-espionage laws. The amendments are added to the Counter-Espionage Law of the People’s Republic of China  of 2023. They are the first amendments to China’s espionage laws since 2014. Under previous law, threats to national security covered state secrets. [...]

A federal grand jury in Florida Tuesday released a superseding indictment against four US citizens and three Russian nationals for conspiring with the Russian government to act as unregistered foreign agents. The conspiracy was called a “multi-year foreign malign influence campaign,” according to a press release from the US Department of Justice (DOJ). The first [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday announced the arrest of two Chinese nationals in connection with a secret police station in New York City, New York. US authorities also arrested over 30 Chinese nationals operating on behalf of China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) to suppress Chinese pro-democracy activists and dissidents in the US. [...]

Chinese authorities Monday sentenced two of the country’s most prominent human rights activists to prison for the crime of “subversion of state power.” Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were sentenced in a court in Shandong province to 14 years and 12 years in prison, respectively. Senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch Yaqiu Wang called [...]

Hong Kong’s Court of Appeals Monday dismissed a bid by prosecutors to prevent Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy media entrepreneur charged with violating the controversial National Security Law (NSL), from having a UK barrister on his legal defense team. In October, Lai pleaded not guilty on NSL collusion charges. Under the NSL, a jury trial can [...]

In late August, Pakistani publisher and human rights activist Faheem Baloch was detained by unidentified plain-clothes law enforcement officers in his Karachi bookshop and ushered away. A native of the Balochistan region of Pakistan, the publisher is known to be a dedicated cultural advocate, heading up a publishing house specializing in Balochi literature, and serving [...]

“What does not benefit the entire hive is no benefit to the bee.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations There are many reasons to fear Donald J. Trump’s return to the American White House, but one reason remains especially worrisome. It stems from the former president’s explicit recommitments to “America First.” A previously failed foreign policy orientation, [...]