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3. The spirit of Hong Kong's democracy movement will not die

Author

Wang, Maya

Subjects
Government regulation, National security -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects, Liberty -- Social aspects, Democracy -- Social aspects -- Hong Kong -- China, China. Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Law 2020
Abstract

Byline: MAYA WANG Associate China director at Human Rights Watch Ten years ago, on Sept. 28, 2014, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers spilled onto the city's streets and occupied [...]

Published
2024

5. Complicated legacies: The human genome at 20

Author

Jones, Kathryn Maxson, Cook-Deegan, Robert, Rotimi, Charles N, Callier, Shawneequa L, Bentley, Amy R, Stevens, Hallam, Phillips, Kathryn A, Jansen, Jeroen P, Weyant, Christopher F, Roberts, Dorothy E, Zielinski, Dina, Erlich, Yaniv, Garrison, Nanibaa' A, Carroll, Stephanie Russo, Ossorio, Pilar N, Moreau, Yves, and Wang, Maya

Subjects
Genetics, Human Genome, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Millions of people today have access to their personal genomic information. Direct-to-consumer services and integration with other “big data” increasingly commoditize what was rightly celebrated as a singular achievement in February 2001 when the first draft human genomes were published. But such remarkable technical and scientific progress has not been without its share of missteps and growing pains. Science invited the experts below to help explore how we got here and where we should (or ought not) be going.

Published
2021

6. Hong Kongers Are Purging the Evidence of Their Lost Freedom

Author

Wang, Maya

Subjects
General interest
Abstract

Byline: Maya Wang 'What should I do with those copies of Apple Daily?' Someone in Hong Kong I was chatting with on the phone recently had suddenly dropped her voice [...]

Published
2024

7. In Hong Kong, Freedom Is Just a Memory

Author

Wang, Maya

Subjects
National security, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

''What should I do with those copies of Apple Daily?'' Someone in Hong Kong I was chatting with on the phone recently had suddenly dropped her voice to ask that [...]

Published
2024

10. The future of technology: Lessons from China.

Author

Wang, Maya, Kaltheuner, Frederike, and Klasing, Amanda

Subjects
*DIGITAL technology, *HUMAN rights violations, *AUTHORITARIANISM, CHINA-United States relations
Abstract

As the competition between the US and China heats up in the realm of technology, the US media has been increasingly portraying it as a simplistic battle between democracy and authoritarianism. This article, however, argues that the reality is that people everywhere—including in China and the United States—are all living in an increasingly digital world where surveillance has become ubiquitous, and accountability for human rights abuses more challenging. It presents five solutions which the United States needs to take to address these challenges, and make for a more fair and equitable future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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17. Xi still has China's long history of democratic protest to contend with

Author

Wang, Maya

Subjects
Political leadership -- Evaluation, Presidents -- Evaluation, Political issue, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: MAYA WANG Senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch 'Remove that authoritarian traitor Xi Jinping,' read the banner, handwritten in red and put up by a lone person on [...]

Published
2022

20. How Beijing turned female Olympians into objects of nationalism

Author

Wang, Maya

Subjects
Winter Olympics -- 2022 AD, Olympic athletes -- Social aspects -- Demographic aspects -- 2022 AD, Human rights -- Social aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules, Nationalism -- Social aspects -- Demographic aspects -- 2022 AD, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: MAYA WANG Senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch There was something deeply discomfiting about the 2022 Beijing Olympics - and it wasn't just that the festivities covered up [...]

Published
2022

26. Orthogonal but linked neural codes for value

Author

Maisson, David J-N., primary, Fine, Justin M., additional, Yoo, Seng Bum Michael, additional, Cash-Padgett, Tyler V., additional, Wang, Maya Zhe, additional, Sleezer, Brianna J., additional, Zimmermann, Jan, additional, and Hayden, Benjamin Y., additional

Published
2021
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29. Where Are the Techno-Democracies?

Author

WANG, MAYA, KALTHEUNER, FREDERIKE, and BROWN, DEBORAH

Subjects
DEMOCRACY, AUTHORITARIANISM, ARTIFICIAL intelligence, MASS surveillance
Published
2022

36. Amid China's storm, Hong Kong holds fast to its umbrella

Author

Wang, Maya

Subjects
Hong Kong -- Political aspects, Activists -- Cases, Extradition -- Laws, regulations and rules, Prison sentences -- Laws, regulations and rules, National songs -- Laws, regulations and rules, Democracy, Prisons, Human rights, Company legal issue, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: MAYA WANG HONG KONG -- Senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch On April 24, a Hong Kong district court sentenced nine leaders of the pro-democracy 'Umbrella Movement' of [...]

Published
2019

37. Monkeys are Curious about Counterfactual Outcomes

Author

Wang, Maya Zhe and Hayden, Benjamin Y.

Subjects
Male, Counterfactual thinking, Linguistics and Language, Entropy, Cognitive Neuroscience, media_common.quotation_subject, Decision Making, Subject (philosophy), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Article, 050105 experimental psychology, Language and Linguistics, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Reward, Willingness to pay, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sacrifice, Animals, Entropy (information theory), 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Animal behavior, Reinforcement, 030304 developmental biology, media_common, 0303 health sciences, Behavior, Animal, 05 social sciences, Macaca mulatta, Exploratory Behavior, Curiosity, Psychology, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Cognitive psychology
Abstract

While many non-human animals show basic exploratory behaviors, it remains unclear whether any animals possess human-like curiosity. We propose that human-like curiosity satisfies three formal criteria: (1) willingness to pay (or to sacrifice reward) to obtain information, (2) that the information provides no instrumental or strategic benefit (and the subject understands this), and (3) the amount the subject is willing to pay scales with the amount of information available. Although previous work, including our own, demonstrates that some animals will sacrifice juice rewards for information, that information normally predicts upcoming rewards and their ostensible curiosity may therefore be a byproduct of reinforcement processes. Here we get around this potential confound by showing that macaques sacrifice juice to obtain information about counterfactual outcomes (outcomes that could have occurred had the subject chosen differently). Moreover, willingness-to-pay scales with the information (Shannon entropy) offered by the counterfactual option. These results demonstrate human-like curiosity in non-human animals according to our strict criteria, which circumvent several confounds associated with less stringent criteria.

Published
2018

39. Complicated legacies: The human genome at 20.

Author

Wible, Brad, Jones, Kathryn Maxson, Cook-Deegan, Robert, Rotimi, Charles N., Callier, Shawneequa L., Bentley, Amy R., Stevens, Hallam, Phillips, Kathryn A., Jansen, Jeroen P., Weyant, Christopher F., Roberts, Dorothy E., Zielinski, Dina, Erlich, Yaniv, Garrison, Nanibaa’ A., Carroll, Stephanie Russo, Ossorio, Pilar N., Moreau, Yves, and Wang, Maya

Published
2021

42. China's dystopian push to revolutionize surveillance

Author

Wang, Maya

Subjects
China -- Social policy, Big data -- Usage, Electronic surveillance -- Technology application, Technology application, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Maya Wang As part of a new multimillion-dollar project in Xinjiang, the Chinese government is attempting to 'build a fortress city with technologies.' If this sounds Orwellian, that's because [...]

Published
2017

43. TURKEY NEEDS TO RESPOND TO CHINA'S CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

Author

Wang, Maya

Subjects
UIGHUR (Turkic people), ISLAMIC countries, HUMAN rights violations, FREEDOM of religion, HUMAN rights, CRIMES against humanity
Abstract

The Chinese government's oppression of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim peoples has reached unprecedented levels since late 2016. Human Rights Watch research demonstrates that the Chinese government has committed, and continues to commit, crimes against humanity, including mass arbitrary detention and pervasive restrictions on religious freedoms. The response--or lack, thereof--of Muslim majority countries and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to these crimes has been particularly disappointing. The Turkish government, for example, has not taken the lead many had hoped it would in advocating for the rights of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples. But it is not too late. Turkey still has the chance to implement concrete policies to hold the Chinese government accountable for its human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in Xinjiang. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2021

45. China: Fighting COVID-19 With Automated Tyranny.

Author

Wang, Maya

Subjects
COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, ANIMAL fighting, HEALTH facilities
Abstract

The blogger was complaining about Health Code, an app that local authorities around China rely on to make decisions about quarantining individuals amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The Zhejiang provincial government has promulgated a set of standards for the Health Code app, outlining broad and ambiguous criteria for categorization. The app makes use of the same government system used to track "focus personnel" - a term that generally refers to several broad social groups the authorities consider problematic, ranging from Turkic Muslims to drug users. [Extracted from the article]

Published
2020

46. Ending torture in China

Author

Wang, Maya

Subjects
Torture, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Maya Wang When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives for a state visit in Washington next month, will President Barack Obama press him to improve China's disturbing record on torture [...]

Published
2015

47. China’s Bumbling Police State.

Author

Wang, Maya

Subjects
*HUMAN rights violations, *TOTALITARIANISM, *HUMAN rights, *RIGHT of privacy, CHINESE politics & government
Published
2018

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