In THe NEws

Myanmar companies received state contracts to build police posts and other infrastructure on land seized from Rohingya Muslims, who fled their homes amid violent “clearance operations” by security forces, United Nations investigators said in a report today.

The US Department of the Treasury has announced sanctions on five individuals and one entity tied to illicit arms trafficking networks that are funnelling revenue to North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile programs, including by supplying weapons technology to Myanmar’s military junta.

Documenti interni e indagini giornalistiche rivelano come la sorveglianza digitale cinese sia alimentata da filiere transnazionali. Inevitabili gli interrogativi su responsabilità aziendali, regolazione internazionale e rischi per i diritti umani

Казахстан купил в Китае технологию интернет-цензуры — для закрытия доступа к неудобному властям контенту, утверждают исследователи, которые изучили более 100 тысяч попавших в их распоряжение документов китайской частной компании Geedge Networks.

အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်တပ်အတွက် မြောက်ကိုရီးယားထံမှ စစ်လက်နက်ပစ္စည်းများ ဝယ်ယူပေးနေသည့် ရန်ကုန်အခြေစိုက် Royal Shune Lei ကုမ္ပဏီနှင့် အမှုဆောင် သုံး ဦးကို အရေးယူပိတ်ဆို့လိုက်သည်။

Leaked documents dated 11 September suggest Beijing has been supplying Myanmar’s military junta with surveillance technology used to monitor communications, track opponents and, in some cases, facilitate arrests and executions.

Leonardo SpA is the 13^th biggest global arms company. The group has eight business sectors: military electronics, helicopters, aircraft, cybersecurity, space, uncrewed systems, aerostructures, and automation.

The Great Firewall (GFW) is China’s infamous internet censorship program, designed to prevent ordinary Chinese citizens from accessing international websites (the “open web”).

Tecnologia exportada por uma empresa chinesa para Myanmar é comparada à “Grande Muralha Digital” da China. A Organização Justice for Myanmar, que integra a investigação, apela à União Europeia para impor sanções.

This paper explores the challenges of Sino-Russian alignment to liberal international order (LIO) in the Indo-Pacific, with a focus on Southeast Asia. Rather than being based upon common interests or values, the alignment between Russian and Chinese interests is pragmatic and expedient in the context of contemporary international affairs.