BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians The CCP has also asserted control over news outlets in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Chinese diaspora commu- nities around the world.’® Beijing has used pressure tactics and exerted influence through inter...
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87 Another case in point is the World Journal (#5 Hig), for years the premier Chinese- language paper in the United States serving immigrants from Taiwan and only one of the six newspapers owned by the United Daily News (UDN), Taiwan’s most influential newspaper company. The pap...
Russian authorities. On Sept. 23, 2013, Mr. Kucherena gave a long interview to Sophie Shevardnadze, a journalist for Russia Today television. When Ms. Shevardnadze directly asked him if Mr. Snowden had given all the documents he had taken from the NSA to journalists in Hong Kong...
98 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS reporter in Berlin in 2014. “The risks became very great,” she said in describing her situation in Hong Kong. So, on June 15, she left Hong Kong and flew back to Berlin, where she began editing her footage of the Snowden interview. Meanwhile, S...
Asian equities (ex-Japan) MSCI Asia ex-Japan (27 June): 469 (last month: 466) UBS View MSCI Asia ex-Japan (6-month target): 515 ¢ The region continued to show high volatility last month, with its P/BV temporarily close to 2008 lows. ¢ Hong Kong and Singapore markets’ domestic fu...
86 starting in 1990, the State Council’s Overseas Chinese Affairs Office gave $800,000 a year to SinoVision, ultimately increasing its subsidy to between $2 million and $3 million a year. Wang made this charge in a 2011 letter to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office alleging wid...
168 Chinese Race.”* Hong Kong has long been a base for flag-waving Chinese activists agitating on the issue of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. “The Chinese race does not fight wars. The Chinese race only safeguards peace!” runs one pronouncement which was designed as an outreach to...
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS Edward Snowden on video shown in Hong Kong: AP Photo/Kin Cheung NSA base on Oahu: Courtesy Ena and Ines Talakic Barton Gellman: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong: AP Photo/John Minchillo Mira hotel: Courtesy Ena and...
346 A Glossary Goe08. Ben Goertzel. A pragmatic path toward endowing virtually-embodied ais with human-level lin- guistic capability. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), 2008. Goe09a. Ben Goertzel. Cognitive synergy: A universal principle of feasible gener...
At the heart of Mr. Snowden’s narrative was his claim that while he may have incidentally “touched” other data in his search of NSA files, he took only documents that exposed the malfeasance of the NSA and gave all of them to journalists. Yet even as Mr. Snowden’s narrative was...
CHAPTER 10 Whistle-blower They elected me. The overseers ... The [American] system failed comprehensively, and each level of oversight, each level of re- sponsibility that should have addressed this, abdicated their re- sponsibility. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2013 Wi SNOWDEN in...
The Webmind Diehards, who helped begin the Novamente project that succeeded Webmind beginning in 2001: Cassio Pennachin, Stephan Vladimir Bugaj, Takuo Henmi, Matthew Ikle’, Thiago Maia, Andre Senna, Guilherme Lamacie and Saulo Pinto Those who helped get the Novamente project off...
190 businessman with business interests in China. There is an unsubstantiated rumor that the investment was subsidized by $1 million from the Ministry of Propaganda. e Duowei is another online source that was for years an independent Chinese- language media. It was purchased...
Ld | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS whole story. Of far more importance is the quality of some of the data that Snowden had copied. Just a single one of these documents could cripple not just the NSA but America’s entire multibillion- dollar apparatus for intercepting foreign inte...