The Little Red Podcast: interviews and chat celebrating China beyond the Beijing beltway. Hosted by Graeme Smith, China studies academic at the Australian National University's Department of Pacific Affairs and Louisa Lim, former China correspondent for the BBC and NPR, now with the Centre for Advancing Journalism at Melbourne University. We are the 2018 winners of podcast of the year in the News & Current Affairs category of the Australian Podcast Awards. Follow us @limlouisa and @GraemeKSmith, and find show notes at www.facebook.com/LittleRedPodcast/
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Xi Jinping’s War on Uighurs. Part 3: The Endgame
"Domestically I don't think the Uighur culture will survive." China now acknowledges the existence of mass indoctrination camps in Xinjiang - which it calls 'vocational training centres' - after months of denial. Its latest propaganda campaign showcases Uighurs inside the camps thanking the Party for teaching them skills and saving them from Islamic extremism...
Xi Jinping’s War on Uighurs. Part 2: The New Frontier
The language used by the Chinese state in Xinjiang pathologises Islam, seeing it as an "ideological virus" which needs eradication by transformation through education. In recent days, China has publicly justified the mass internment of Uighurs as necessary in its struggle against the "three evils" of terrorism, separatism and religious extremism...
Xi Jinping’s War on the Uighurs. Part 1: The Witnesses
‘We seem to be normal, but we are not.’ A United Nations human rights panel says it has credible reports that more than a million Uighurs are being held in reeducation camps in the northwestern Chinese province of Xinjiang. As evidence emerges of massive human rights violations from satellite photos, procurement bids and state-run news reports, the voices that have not yet been heard are those of Uighurs themselves...
Stranger than Fiction: China’s Espionage Industrial Complex
“Use your spies for every kind of business.” This 2500 year-old stratagem from Sun Zi's Art of War still informs Beijing’s modern day approach towards intelligence gathering. Today China’s espionage industrial complex appears to be taking spying mainstream by blurring the boundaries between spying, interference and influence projection...
The Han-Opticon: Social Credit and AI in the Surveillance State
China today is Black Mirror through the Looking Glass. A national video surveillance network is promised in just two years, while new technologies are being rolled out at speed on the frontier of China’s surveillance regime, in Xinjiang, ranging from iris scans to phone surveillance apps. Simultaneously the Chinese state is building a nationwide social credit system, to be launched in 2020, which provides incentives for citizens to participate in their own surveillance...
episode 26: Come Dance with Xi: Who Can Resist the Belt and Road's Embrace?
Louisa and Graeme take a journey on China's Belt and Road with Peter Cai of the Lowy Institute and Dirk van der Kley of the Australian National University
All Maxxed Out: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme The World Has Ever Seen?
China's recent impressive economic growth has bee…
Shaken But Not Stirred: The Chinese State and the Sichuan Earthquake
On 12 May 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit We…
Tinker, Tailor, Student, Spy? Inside Australia's Chinese Student Boom
Universities in Australia have an addiction: over…
How To Make Friends And Influence People: Inside the Magic Weapon of the United Front
The Communist Party's shadowy United Front Work D…