The Chinese regime is increasingly using artificial intelligence, contractors, overseas organizations, and people recruited inside other countries to pursue critics beyond China’s borders, according to a report released on July 15.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) assessment draws together recent cases involving an account linked to Chinese law enforcement, malware targeting Uyghur activists, an alleged plot against a Los Angeles critic of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and attacks on protesters in San Francisco.
Caroline Costello of the Atlantic Council and William Nee of NED, who wrote the report’s China chapter, said the tactics reduce Beijing’s reliance on large overseas networks of Chinese security officers….