Exclusive: China appears to have expanded use of high-security prisons as tool of repression in Tibet, researchers say

The truth is CBDCs are government's attempt to protect its privileged position and exert more control over people's money.

Golden State Warriors owner Chamath Palihapitiya suggested recently that "nobody cares" about China 's system of concentration camps, forced labor, and high-tech surveillance against the Uyghur community in Xinjiang. "Nobody cares about what's happening to the Uyghurs, okay," Palihapitiya said during an appearance on the All-In podcast.

Ministers face claims they have allowed the ruling elite of Kazakhstan to secretly invest vast chunks of the country's wealth in the London property market after failing to introduce promised new transparency laws. Former prime minister David Cameron pledged at an anti-corruption summit in London in 2016 that the UK would end the secret offshore ownership of property.

Hong Kong's oldest university and the territory's authorities have been accused of rewriting history after cutting up and removing a statue mourning those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. The erasure of the memorial from where it had stood for nearly 25 years came as Beijing has intensified its targeting of political dissent in Hong Kong since the Covid pandemic.

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