more than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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中文名：姜大翼｜AP Journalist in Beijing | 美联社北京分社的一位伟大时代的记录者｜你可以用微信联系我（dakekang) 或者电报, Signal, WhatsApp (+1 201 937 9797). 邮箱: dakekang@protonmail.com
I missed that Palantir and Anduril employees are now formally providing U.S. diplomats with advice "on digital freedom and freedom of expression." www.state.gov/current-part...
Current Partnerships - Global Partnerships Unit - United States Department of State
Freedom Tech Excellence Program (FTEP) Overview The Freedom Tech Excellence Program (FTEP) is a partnership between the U.S. Department of State and private sector organizations committed to advancing...
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Yesterday was my last day as a credentialed journalist in China. I moved to Beijing in 2018. The past eight and a half years have been the longest I’ve ever lived in one city. It’s been the experience of a lifetime. 过去八年半的酸甜苦辣一下子涌上心头了
Hi all, I’ve had to reset my Signal account because my chat history got corrupted. I am now reachable again on Signal at dakekang.93 大家好，由于我的 Signal 聊天记录损坏了，我不得不重置了我的 Signal 账号。现在大家可以再次通过 Signal 联系我，用户名是 dakekang.93
本期节目嘉宾是获得2026年普利策奖的记者Dake Kang姜大翼，获奖报道是一系列关于中国监控体系与美国科技公司之间复杂关系的调查。他在节目中分享了报道背后的故事。我们还聊到，他为什么说自己曾是个小粉红，外交部的谈话是怎样的体验，以及普通人对外媒的态度经历了怎样的变化？ youtu.be/reZHxTRbeTg
从小粉红到普利策获奖记者，一位美国记者在中国的经历 | Dake Kang | 姜大翼 | 中国监控体系丨上访 | 新冠疫情 | 河南村镇银行丨AI | 极权丨1984| 境外势力丨
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I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.
I have some belated, surreal news: My colleagues and I have won the Pulitzer prize for International Reporting. An incredible honor. And a real team effort. I’ve been neglecting this platform. Will do my best to keep up on BlueSky! www.pulitzer.org/winners/dake...
Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Yael Grauer, contributor, of Associated Press
For an astonishing global investigation into state-of-the-art tools of mass surveillance, created in Silicon Valley, advanced in China and spreading worldwide before returning to America for secret ne...
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Great scoop by Dewey Sim Russian leader Vladimir Putin will pay a one-day visit to Beijing, just days after President Xi Jinping wraps up his closely watched summit with his American counterpart Donald Trump.
Exclusive | Russia’s Putin is heading to China next week, days after Xi-Trump summit
The Russian leader’s one-day visit, tipped for May 20, is unlikely to feature the pomp and elaborate details of the US president’s trip.
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China is exporting a surveillance empire built on U.S. technology. An AP investigation found Tibetans in Nepal are trapped under constant watch.
US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya.
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A side note on this story: One of the other things we found is that this is the same sort of tool used to uncover so-called “terrorist financing,” which ensnared Uyghurs for sending money abroad - even for innocent things like sending down payments for a house bsky.app/profile/dake...
Dake Kang@dakekang.bsky.social · 8mo ago2/We've found U.S. police analytics tech sold to China mines texts, payments, flights, calls, and other data to identify the friends and family of officials and their assets. They allow police to essentially hold relatives hostage, using them to coerce targets to return to China.
1/Beijing is using an increasingly powerful tool to control and monitor its own officials: Surveillance technology, much of it originating in the U.S., an @apnews.com investigation has found. Buckle up for a twisting ride through China's corruption crackdown... apnews.com/article/whis...
A Chinese official exposed his boss. Now in Texas, he’s hunted by Beijing - with help from US tech
Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang fled to the U.S. seeking asylum, fearing persecution from the Chinese government.
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When Trump suspended the refugee program, thousands of people who had been so close to a new life in America found themselves abandoned. I contributed a profile of Chinese Christian Lu Taizhi, an ardent Trump supporter who is among those now in limbo: apnews.com/article/refu...
Around the world, refugees are shut out of the US by Trump's new policies
When President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program, he left thousands stranded worldwide. Many had prepared for new lives in America, selling possessions and ending leases.
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NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/ @garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
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AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
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Two lawmakers want the Supreme Court to allow a lawsuit to proceed against Cisco over allegations their tech was used to persecute the Falun Gong. If the suit succeeds, it would signal that U.S. firms could be held liable for abuse of their tech overseas: apnews.com/article/cisc...
GOP lawmakers urge Trump administration to back Falun Gong lawsuit against Cisco
Two prominent Republicans are urging the Supreme Court to allow a lawsuit against Cisco. The lawsuit claims Cisco's technology was used to persecute Falun Gong members in China.
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1/As Trump prepares to meet with Xi in China, tech is one of the thorniest topics on the table. Our investigation shows Washington repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police. apnews.com/article/chin...
US government allowed and even helped US firms sell tech used for surveillance in China, AP finds
Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American fi...
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I spoke recently with @dakekang.bsky.social of @apnews.com on the level of involvement that U.S. companies have had in China. It’s often shareholder value over human values. youtu.be/nRG032PB7m0?...
How U.S. Tech Helped to Create China’s Police State | Amanpour and Company
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A horrifying must-read from my colleague Kristen Gelineau on the starvation that has gripped parts of Myanmar after the dismantling of USAID.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 10mo agoU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.
I was on @AmanpourCoPBS tonight, discussing the role of American tech firms in China’s surveillance state with @hari. Grateful for the chance to speak to @CNN and @PBS’s audience about our story. Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/nRG032PB7m0?...
How U.S. Tech Created China’s Police State | Amanpour and Company
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Hello everyone, I am now also on Substack. Bit of an experiment for me, but I suspect people who follow me might like that format better: substack.com/@dakekang
Dake Kang | Substack
Investigative journalist in Beijing
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1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands: apnews.com/article/chin...
Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show
U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.
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1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands: apnews.com/article/chin...
Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show
U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.
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Tens of thousands of people in China are barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest surveillance apparatus. An AP investigation finds much of this technology came from U.S. companies.
US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China
U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.
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BREAKING - China hits back at the US, adds another 50% tariff on US goods: @huizhong-wu.bsky.social apnews.com/article/china-…
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Chinese diplomats threatened to cancel a summit and called top officials in two African countries to pressure lawmakers to quit the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, in an escalation of Chinese pressure in Africa. It shows how far China will go to wield clout abroad: apnews.com/article/chin...
Beijing ups diplomatic pressure on Africa as the US pulls back
Chinese diplomats threatened to cancel a summit and called top officials in two African countries to pressure lawmakers to quit an international parliamentary group critical of China, officials from t...
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The U.S. has banned government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, AP has learned. A blanket “non-fraternization” policy, as it is known, has been unheard of publicly since the Cold War w/Didi Tang, Matt Lee apnews.com/article/chin...
US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens
The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citize...
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1/In the US, Elon Musk says he champions free speech. In China, his car company, Tesla, is silencing criticism - with the backing of the state. Tesla China sued car owners, outlets and bloggers pointing out safety issues - and has won almost every case. apnews.com/article/tesl...
Her parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages
Tesla has sued its own customers and journalists in China for defamation – and won just about every time.
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30+ of Weibo's Top 50 trending topics are on the martial law declaration in South Korea — hard to overstate just how viral this news is on the Chinese internet.
Alexander Boyd@alexludoboyd.bsky.social · 2y agoFour of top five Weibo trends are on martial law in South Korea: #1: South Korea's President Declares Martial Law #2: What's Going on in South Korea? #3: One Belt One Road Report Card, Told in Data #4: South Korea #5: Chinese Embassy in Korea Issues Late Night Warning
