China now not only requires that preschools in Tibet teach in Chinese, they also send "written requests to parents to speak Chinese to their children in their homes, and in some cases require them to provide videos of them speaking Chinese with their children"
https://www.hrw.org/report/2026/05/04/start-with-the-youngest-children/chinas-use-of-preschools-to-integrate-tibetans
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An interactive exhibit, if you will: 'Three days after the show, "Constellation of Complicity: Visualising the Global Machinery of Authoritarian Solidarity”, opened on July 24, Chinese embassy staff, accompanied by Bangkok city officials, "entered the exhibition and demanded its shutdown”'
Sheffield Hallam University "a decision by the university not to publish a final phase of the research on forced labour in China was communicated to the National Security Service … immediately relations improved and the threat to staff wellbeing appears to be removed" and canceled prof Laura Murphy's research into supply chains and forced labour "due to … the corporate insurance position … and our duty of care to colleagues working in both China and the UK"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq50j5vwny6o
A government spokesperson told the BBC "any attempt by a foreign state to intimidate, harass or harm individuals in the UK will not be tolerated, and the government has made this clear to Beijing after learning of this case" - Which I suspect will be tested by another thin-skinned autocrat rather sooner than later
"Even directors abroad, including those who are not Chinese nationals, reported that their relatives and friends in China were receiving threatening calls from police" https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/11/07/china-authorities-shut-down-film-festival-in-new-york
