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Monitoring the Frontier

The same architecture of surveillance and control underpins China's presence in Tibet, the Uyghur region, Inner Mongolia, and Hong Kong, built on...

Covert Compute

Despite years of Western export controls, restricted NVIDIA AI chips continue to reach China. New C4ADS analysis maps those active pathways, including...

Hardwired Repression

Data centers are an essential component of China's expansive mass surveillance system in the Uyghur region, quietly processing biometric and behavioral data...

China’s Greyzone Fleet: Detecting and Disrupting Beijing’s Strategy in the Indo-Pacific

On March 26, 2026, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and C4ADS convened a public panel discussion on how China is deploying...

Anchors Away

In this commentary, we examine how beneficial owners across the fishing, cargo, and tanker industries exploit shell companies and open flag registries...

Oil and Water

Since 2019, a China-based fleet of at least 56 supertankers has funneled more than 400 million barrels of illicit oil between high-risk...

Keeping the Lights On

New C4ADS analysis charts an extensive network of onshore and offshore support systems that enable illicit distant-water squid fishing operations, helping malign...

Off The NASDAQ, Still On The High Seas

In this update to our 2022 Net Worth report, we chart how Pingtan Marine Enterprise and Fuzhou Honglong Ocean Fishing entities have...

Staying Afloat

On Wednesday, June 11, 2025, C4ADS discussed the onshore and offshore support systems that enable the distant water squid fishing fleet to...

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