‘Escalating efforts’: A year after China Targets, Beijing’s global campaign against dissenters continues

‘Escalating efforts’: A year after China Targets, Beijing’s global campaign against dissenters continues

For more than 15 hours, Abdulhakim Idris stared at the walls of a detention room in a Malaysian airport. The room, dirty and ridden with bed bugs, held dozens of detainees from around the world. Many of them slept on the floor. Idris is the executive director of the Center for Uyghur Studies, a U.S.-based research and advocacy nonprofit. Last month, he traveled to Malaysia to launch the Malay-language version of his book, which chronicles Beijin…

China’s expanding global campaign to silence dissent across borders

The detention of Abdulhakim Idris in a Malaysian airport may appear, at first glance, as an isolated immigration incident. But when viewed through a broader lens, it becomes a telling case study in a much larger and increasingly sophisticated phenomenon: China’s sustained campaign of transnational repression. One year after the revelations of the “China Targets” investigation, evidence continues to mount that Beijing’s efforts to silence critics…