CHINA TARGETS ‘Escalating efforts’: A year after China Targets, Beijing’s global campaign against dissenters continues In 2025, China was the most prolific perpetrator of transnational repression, a new Freedom House report found. For more than 15 hours, Abdulhakim Idris stared at the walls of a detention room in a Malaysian airport. The room, dirty and ridden with bed bugs, held dozens of detaine...