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Dec 9, 2021 · The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics have become a flashpoint in the escalating global tensions that surround the country’s widespread human rights violations.
- Rachel Gilmore
Feb 4, 2022 · Getty Images. The Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics are taking place over the coming weeks. China's human rights record has led some countries to declare diplomatic boycotts of the...
- Risk Apertures and The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
- Best Practices to Defend Against China’s Information Gathering Techniques
- How China Tracks
- Tarnished Image: Reputation Risks to Commercial Sponsors
- Misinformation and The Covid Narrative
- Protect Your Enterprise Against Cyber Risks in The APAC Region
In a sign that things are returning increasingly back to a (new) normal around the globe, the Olympics are back as scheduled. Beginning February 4, Beijing will host athletes, coaches, and spectators from around the world for the 2022 Winter Olympics, just six months on heels of thesummer games in Tokyo—which itself kicked off a year later than pla...
When it comes to traveling to and from China, the prevailing assumption should be that one’s personal devices (and being) are under continuous watch by Chinese authorities. An obvious solution, although not the only measure one should take, is to maintain a reserve group of devices for exclusive use in China, each of which is analyzed and wiped aft...
The severity of this threat is perhaps best illustrated by the application that participants are required to install. The application developed to store athletes’ health information, called “MY2022,” has already been picked apart and called out for having security flaws that could be used by state security agencies to access devices and a feature t...
As of this publishing, Flashpoint analysts have yet to identify clear evidence of any planned cyber attacks emanating from the threat actors groups either inside or outside of China. While a majority ofOlympic sponsors are state-affiliated, a few major foreign organizations will be advertising during these games and should be aware of reputational ...
Perhaps one of the biggest misinformation stories of 2020-2021 continues to be COVID narrative wars. Chinese state media and diplomatic twitter accounts, not to mention bots, propagated a variety of tales around the origin of COVID and Omicron. These narratives have heightened diplomatic tensions and may have resulted in increased anti-US sentiment...
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Feb 1, 2022 · The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing were supposed to be a triumph for the Chinese government. But the COVID-19 pandemic and diplomatic boycotts have hampered its plans.
The 2022 Winter Olympics took place between the 4 and 20 February 2022 and were hosted by in China in the capital city of Beijing. The country selected was the subject of various concerns and controversies about their cost, environmental impact, censorship, espionage, COVID-19, sportswashing, and human rights issues.
Feb 21, 2022 · Nefarious cyber activity is a flashpoint in the geopolitical rivalry between China and the West. Beijing has long been accused by the US and technology watchdogs of widespread online snooping and...
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For the first time since the original coronavirus outbreak closed China's borders, the country is preparing to allow foreigners to enter again in large numbers for the winter Olympics next...
