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Congressional Research Service, Covid-19 and China: A Chronology of Events, May 13, 2020
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U.S. State Department, The PRC’s Military-Civil Fusion Strategy, March 12, 2020
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U.S. Department of Justice, Huawei and its CFO Meng Wanzhou Charged with Financial Fraud, Jan. 28, 2019
Meng Wangzhou 孟晚舟was detained by Canadian authorities in Vancouver in December 2018 at the request of the U.S. government. Here is the press release about the indictment against the company and Meng Wanzhou. The charging document is also included.
U.S. Dept. of Justice, Chinese Accused of Equifax Hack, Feb. 10, 2020
The U.S. Attorney General announced the indictment of four members of the People’s Liberation Army for the 2017 cybertheft of the personal data of millions of people from Equifax, a crediting reporting agency. Included here are his remarks, a press statement about the indictment and a link to the charging document.
William Barr, Keynote at China Initiative Conference, February 6, 2020
William Barr served in the George H.W. Bush and Donald J. Trump administrations as Attorney General.
John Demers, Economic Espionage by the People’s Republic of China, Nov. 1, 2018

John Demers
Assistant Attorney General for National Security
Washington, DC
Nov. 1, 2018
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Mahtani and McLaughlin were on the ground in Hong Kong and provide this history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's crackdown.
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Mahtani and McLaughlin were on the ground in Hong Kong and provide this history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's crackdown.