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More than a dozen false bomb threats made at luxury hotels and embassies across Europe, the U.S., the Middle East and East Asia appear to be part of a harassment campaign targeting three Chinese people living abroad who have been critical of China's government, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: The journalist and two activists targeted by the campaign believe the harassment is backed by the Chinese government. Beijing has for decades used surveillance and intimidation to silence dissidents abroad — but analysts warn their efforts to target their critics beyond their borders are becoming more brazen.

When it comes to repressing critics abroad, "China operates pretty freely in democratic states," Yana Gorokhovskaia, an expert on transnational repression at Freedom House, told Axios.

"It employs various tactics, and when one tactic becomes unavailable, they are quite creative about how to harass and target people" in other ways — sometimes via extreme or radical methods, she added.

For instance, Chinese Communist Party leaders have, at times, leveraged foreign government institutions to pursue Beijing's critics.

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to a request for comment. The Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., said it isn't aware of the incidents in the U.S. and does "not have any information to offer."

What's happening: Beginning in October 2022, anonymous perpetrators booked and paid for dozens of expensive rooms at luxury hotels in at least six countries — the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, Hong Kong and Macau in China, and the U.S. They used the personal information of Germany-based Radio Free Asia reporter Su Yutong and two activists, Wang Jingyu in the Netherlands and Bob Fu in the U.S., without their knowledge.

The perpetrators then called in at least 14 fake bomb threats to some of those hotels, falsely identifying themselves as these people, resulting in police investigations and even the brief detention of one of the activists, according to Axios interviews with Su, Wang, and Fu, and statements provided to Axios by police and hotel staff.

An additional two false bomb threats were made in Wang's name against the Chinese embassies in the Netherlands and Norway, according to Wang and a Dutch police report viewed by Axios. The Chinese embassy in Norway confirmed to Axios in an email that someone using Wang's name made a bomb threat, adding in a statement that “after verification, we believe this is a hoax by certain people which does not consist of a valid threat.” The Chinese embassy in the Netherlands did not respond to a request for comment.

Dutch police in the Hague said the false reports were most likely made from IP addresses in China and Hong Kong, according to a Dutch news report. Dutch law enforcement did not respond to a request for comment. 

Law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Germany, the Netherlands, Macau and Hong Kong are investigating the threats, according to Axios interviews, Dutch news reports, and statements to Axios from hotels and local law enforcement. The Chinese embassy in Norway said they did not contact police about the false threat.

The Chinese embassy in Germany did not respond to a request for comment.

Background: Su, Wang and Fu have publicly criticized and questioned Beijing's policies and actions, drawing the ire of the Chinese Communist Party.

Su was put under house arrest in 2010 for distributing a banned book about former Chinese Premier Li Peng who oversaw the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. She was able to escape China and flee to Germany the same year but has said she and her parents in China continue to be threatened by police and the Chinese government. 

Fu, a pastor, has lived in the U.S. for more than 25 years and runs ChinaAid, a nonprofit that assists Christians, Muslims and other people of faith persecuted in China.

Emirati authorities detained Wang in 2021 as he was transiting through Dubai after he posted comments on Chinese social media criticizing China's role in the China-India border conflict. He now lives in the Netherlands, which does not have an extradition treaty with China. 

Details: Wang was questioned by Dutch police on Oct. 7 in connection with reports of bomb threats around the country and also in Belgium, according to a Dutch police report viewed by Axios and interviews with Wang.

Dutch authorities soon came to the conclusion that he was not responsible for the false bomb threats, Wang said.

On Oct. 15, 2022, the day Wang said the false bomb threat was made to the Chinese embassy in the Netherlands, Dutch police closed off the main roads at the embassy's location in The Hague to search for explosives, and later determined the bomb threat was not genuine, according to a local news report.

No bombs have been reported found at the hotels or embassies, according to interviews and news reports.

Zoom in: In February, Fu received calls from the JW Marriott Essex House hotel in New York and a hotel in Houston about the bomb threats they received in his name, he told Axios. Fu then reported the incidents to the FBI.

Police investigators in New York and Los Angeles, where another threat was made in his name, as well as an FBI field office in Texas, are now working on the case, Fu told Axios. The FBI said in an email that it could "neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation." 

A manager at the Marriott hotel in New York told Axios "something similar" occurred at the hotel earlier this year but wouldn't provide further details. A spokesperson for the hotel told Axios in an email they do not comment on police matters.

The NYPD didn't respond to multiple requests for comment regarding the threats made in Fu's name. The LAPD told Axios it wasn't able to comment on a federal investigation. 

Su's name was used to book a room and then to call in a false bomb threat at a luxury hotel in Istanbul, a manager at the hotel confirmed to Axios. The hotel staff understood it was a false bomb threat after speaking with Su directly, the manager said. 

A police officer in Macau told Axios he was aware of a false bomb threat made in Su's name to a hotel in the city, but said he could not answer any questions because the case was still open.

A Marriott regional communications director referred Axios to local police regarding an inquiry about a Brussels hotel where Wang said a false bomb threat was made by someone who gave his name and contact information.

The Ritz Carlton Berlin confirmed they received a false bomb threat but "could not disclose any further details, as the case is currently still with our local authorities," a public relations manager told Axios via email. 

The U.S. State Department declined to comment and referred Axios to local law enforcement.

"Any form of foreign interference is utterly unacceptable. Every person in the Netherlands should be safe and feel safe, free from intimidation from regimes abroad. In case there are signs of unwanted interference, we will bring this up very firmly in bilateral contacts, and take action where necessary," the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Axios in a statement.

"The ministry cannot provide comments on individual cases."

Wang, Su and Fu each told Axios they believe this is a Chinese state-sponsored campaign of transnational repression targeting Wang for his previous remarks and his current activism, Su for her coverage of Wang, and Fu for helping Wang.

Su said perpetrators have also booked dozens of taxis and ordered thousands of dollars of food delivered to her home through Uber Eats over the past several weeks, selecting cash on delivery as the method of payment.

She's also been targeted with fake escort ads that have led to men coming to her house. “Almost every day different people rang my doorbell,” Su told Radio Free Asia. “They say they are here for an Asian woman, looking for sex.”

Su, who said she has been assisting the German law enforcement investigation of the harassment, has now moved to an undisclosed residence after authorities urged her to take measures to protect her safety.

What they're saying: "We left China in the hope of freedom from fear in the democratic countries," Su told Axios. 

"What amazes me is that they use these tactics with such unscrupulousness in Germany, the United States and other democracies as they do in China. When victims report crimes, democracies sometimes treat cases as ordinary cases of harassment, threats, and I hope democracies will link these cases to the CCP’s cross-border repression," Su said. 

"This tactic clearly demonstrates that the CCP pivots to new ways of its transnational repression against dissidents like me," Fu told Axios.

The Chinese government is punishing Wang because "they want to make him feel more vulnerable and to restrict his travel because he constantly accepts media interviews," said Fu, who helped Wang escape Ukraine and make it safely to the Netherlands. Fu believes this is the reason he is being targeted. 

Between the lines: The tactics used against Wang, Su and Fu are consistent with co-optation, a form of transnational repression in which the perpetrator abuses the existing institutions of a host country — in this case, local law enforcement — to silence the victims or make their lives as difficult as possible, Gorokhovskaia said.

Data compiled by Freedom House shows that "China is the world’s most prolific perpetrator of transnational repression, both in terms of sheer numbers of groups and people it targets, but also the number of different kinds of tactics," Gorokhovskaia said. 

What to watch: The Justice Department, under the Trump and Biden administrations, has emphasized fighting China's transnational repression.

The European Court of Human Rights late last year blocked a man's extradition to China in a landmark case that could make it difficult for European countries to deport anyone back to China.

A bipartisan bill was introduced in the U.S. Congress earlier this month "to establish a new U.S. policy to hold foreign governments and individuals accountable when they stalk, intimidate, or assault people across borders, including in the United States."

Go deeper: Read more of Axios' China coverage.

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Twitter's ship has not capsized as many feared it might when Elon Musk took its helm five months ago. Instead, it has wandered off course, sprung leaks, and cast much of its crew adrift — driving many passengers to the life rafts.

Driving the news: In a recent stock-option offering to employees, Musk reportedly valued the company at $20 billion — less than half the full $44 billion price tag for his acquisition.

Musk announced Monday evening that starting April 15, the service would only highlight tweets from paying subscribers in its default "For You" stream. He framed the move as an effort to "address advanced AI bot swarms taking over."

Subscription revenue has not yet made a big contribution to Twitter's coffers, and the company is likely to keep seeking new ways to attract more payments from users. 

Earlier this month, Twitter said that verified status would only be available to subscribers starting April 1, when users who'd been verified under the old regime would lose their blue checkmarks.

Why it matters: The more Twitter erects subscription barriers, the less it will  serve as the "global town square" Musk has envisioned.

When "verified" just means someone paid a small fee, the door is open that much wider to misinformation, hoaxes and frauds. 

Of note: In response to a complaint by William Shatner about the changes to the verification system, Musk said his goal is "treating everyone equally."

But Musk made headlines in February when Platformer reported that Twitter engineers had rigged the service to give his own tweets a ton of extra exposure.

Twitter also has a list of roughly three dozen VIP accounts — including President Biden, a conservative Musk fan who posts as "catturd2," Lebron James, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ben Shapiro and other journalists — whose tweets get special amplification, Platformer further reported Monday. 

The big picture: Twitter still faces an uphill fight to attract advertisers. 

A general ad market downturn is partly to blame. But major advertisers are also unhappy with some of Musk's changes, including a rise in extremist postings under his more permissive content rules.

Between the lines: During Musk's Twitter tenure, the new owner has unleashed a stream of impulsive policy-shifts-via-tweet. 

Many of these initiatives never materialized, and those that did rarely kept to the announced schedule. 

That has left some observers skeptical of announcements like Musk's plan for the "For You" feed, with many taking a "we'll believe it when we see it" stance.

The other side: Good journalistic practice compels us to seek comment from a company in a story like this one, but Twitter's communications team is long gone — part of the mass layoffs and resignations that have left the firm with less than a third of the 7500 employees Musk started with. 

Today, emails to Twitter's old press inquiries inbox receive an auto-reply of "💩."

Twitter's financial needs are driving plans to limit recommendations and verification to paying users.

The TikTok debate could be simplified fast with a sale that puts the Chinese government farther from the platform, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) told Axios' Mike Allen at the What's Next Summit. 

Why it matters: Kelly said he recognizes the power of TikTok for businesses and marketing, but cited his concerns about how the Chinese government can "on demand get access to lots of data." 

"There are some things we can do to still allow this capability (TikTok) as…social media, but at the same time still protect the national security of the United States," he said.

Kelly, a former astronaut who's done four trips to the International Space Station, cited his 20-something daughter as a fan of the platform, calling it an "incredible marketing tool."

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What's next: Multiple pieces of legislation are moving through Congress that would either try to ban TikTok directly or empower the Biden administration to take such an action.

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Millions fewer Americans worked remotely last year, according to a new survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Why it matters: The data show the work world returning to a new normal, where there is some working from home — more than in the pre-COVID era — but less than at the height of the Zoom and sweatpants moment.

By the numbers: The share of establishments with employees rarely or never working remotely rose to 72.5%, up from 60.1% the year before.

On the flip side: Establishments with employees working remotely some or all of the time declined to 28% last year, down from 40% in 2021.

White-collar industries still have a large share of folks working from home. In the information sector (which includes tech and media companies), 67% of firms had people working from home some or all the time last year.

Financial services saw a big drop from 2021 to 2022 — from 55% to 33%. 

Methodology: An establishment is defined as a single location where one predominant business activity is conducted. These surveys can capture companies of all sizes.

The survey was conducted in August and September of last year, while the 2021 survey went out from July to September.

State of play: The Wall Street Journal, reporting on the data, suggested the remote era was fading away.

But before the pandemic, only about 5% of workers were remote, according to data from Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford economics professor who's been tracking the trend for years.

What to watch: How much farther the lines on the chart above fall this year. Some high-profile companies really want workers in offices — and any softness in the economy or uncertainty in the job market gives executives far more leverage to get them there.

The share of companies with some employees working remotely dropped to 28%, a new government survey shows.

For all the hand-wringing over whether robots will replace human workers, ChatGPT and its ilk — tools known as generative AI — are shaping up to be a big employment threat too.

Why it matters: Robots tend to replace manual laborers, while artificial intelligence threatens knowledge workers — ensuring that people of all education levels can look nervously over their shoulder at the tech gunning for their paycheck. 

State of play: Robots' growing sophistication has them starting to work as everything from security guards, window washers and assembly line workers to food deliverers and fry cooks.

They're predicted to soon prove their mettle as warehouse workers, aides to the elderly, pharmacists and more.

At the same time, AI software and large language models (LLMs) — including ChatGPT — may soon be able to do all manner of jobs, blending into society in ways that aren't clear yet.

So far, we know AI can give radiologists a run for their money, and could replace coders, accountants, paralegals, graphics designers and even journalists (eeek!).

Yes, but: For all their potential workplace benefits (like indefatigability), these technologies all have manifold flaws — from serving up misinformation to falling over on the job (hello, sidewalk robots!).

Threat level: It seems clear that automation will continue to erode certain jobs, as it has already done in the manufacturing realm. 

The question is whether other jobs will crop up as a substitute — say, in supervising, programming or fixing the robots — and whether workers are equipped to perform them.

Some economists say the threat to people's jobs is real — and the big shame is that vocational training programs aren't steering workers into roles with guaranteed longevity.

What they're saying: Automation "could increase productivity while reducing wages and employment," says Daron Acemoglu, a professor and labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"I'm not optimistic that just the simple process of workers getting displaced from some jobs and doing other ones is going to be enough," says Acemoglu, co-author of influential research papers showing that automation has exacerbated wage inequality and that robots have usurped jobs.

He argues that the "scope is greater" for AI and LLMs to replace human workers — particularly given many companies' desire to trim costs through automation.

The other side: A World Economic Forum report predicts that the "number of jobs destroyed will be surpassed by the number of 'jobs of tomorrow' created." 

By 2025, machines could displace about 85 million jobs — but create 97 million new roles "more adapted to the new division of labour between humans, machines and algorithms."

And research shows people tend to exaggerate the job threat from robots.

Optimists point out that ATMs didn't eliminate bank tellers, nor did washing machines make housework extinct. 

Robot manufacturers say their products won't kill jobs — they'll just replace boring, dangerous and repetitive roles with better ones that require human judgment.

"We really view robots as a partner to people, not as a replacement," the co-founder and CEO of Agility Robotics, Damion Shelton, tells Axios.

"There are so many tasks that need to be done in a logistics environment," says Shelton, whose company is building a robotic warehouse worker. "Robots can just pick up the stuff that people don't want to do."

The big picture: An epic labor shortage is bedeviling employers, causing some to eye robots and AI as potentially cheaper than increasing wages.

Meanwhile, long-term trends — like demographic shifts and a mismatch between skills and workplace needs — are worrisome to economists, who fear our education and training apparatus isn't oriented toward future needs.

The U.S. has a shortage of skilled tradespeople, for example — carpenters, electricians, plumbers — but community colleges and other institutions aren't offering appropriate programs, Acemoglu says.

One promising solution: Amp up subsidized training programs for jobs that can't easily be done by robots or AI, and funnel potentially displaced workers into them.

In the U.S., "when we adopt robotics, we then lay off workers," Acemoglu said. "But if you look at what happens in Germany, they retrain workers and they create jobs for other workers."

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State efforts to restrict gender-affirming care are moving beyond trans youth and increasingly focused on patients over the age of 18. 

The big picture: Legislators in Kansas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas have introduced bills barring health providers from offering care such as hormone treatments or surgery to people as old as 26. 

In contrast to past messaging around protecting children, some proponents of the latest proposals portray gender-affirming care as a business that is exploiting people in need of psychological care.

"We think that [gender-affirming care] is bad medicine and that it's consumer fraud," said Terry Schilling, president of the conservative group American Principles Project, which works with lawmakers to introduce anti-trans measures. "We don't believe that men can change into women based off of removing body parts or changing our hormone makeup." 

Matt Sharp, senior counsel for the conservative advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, said that while his organization is focused on bills restricting care for minors, gender-affirming care for adults is not something "we ought to be encouraging or supporting," instead patients should be getting mental health treatments like "psychotherapy."

Gender-affirming care advocates say the efforts are proof anti-trans lawmakers want to block all access to those services, not just restrict care to minors. 

"This was always a long-term plan of trying to eliminate all access to care, all visibility and safety for trans people of all ages," said Milo Inglehart, staff attorney at the Transgender Law Center.

Driving the news: This month, Texas state Rep. Tony Tinderholt introduced H.B. 4574, which states that a health professional who provides gender-affirming care to a trans person under 26 — or even refers a patient to another provider — could be sentenced to jail and lose their medical license. 

A similar bill was introduced in Oklahoma in January, but the bill's author ended up lowering the age limit to 18 following intense backlash from LGBTQ rights advocates.

The bills in Kansas, Oklahoma and South Carolina look to ban health care for trans people under 21.

These measures come on top of others in several states that would allow adults to file malpractice suits against providers who performed gender-affirming care. 

Don't forget: Gender-affirming care is endorsed by medical groups, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society and the World Health Organization.

Zoom in: The lawmakers who have introduced bills with 26 as an age limit have said that it's because the brain isn't fully developed until the age of 25 — an assertion health experts say is misleading.

While most individuals' brains continue to develop until around the age of 25, the idea of having to wait until then to make a health care-related decision "seems pretty absurd," said Michael Hendricks, a clinical psychologist in Washington, D.C., who specializes in transgender issues.

"This is a really good indication of an instance of misuse of science," he said, noting providers already evaluate candidates for gender-affirming procedures "to make sure that they're exercising sound judgement" before going through with any gender-affirming treatment.

State of play: Some state bills that ban health care for trans youth also have clauses that prohibit public funds from being used in gender-affirming care and bar private health insurers from covering treatments — a move that legal experts say essentially are de facto bans for adults as well.

Adding these "restrictions into what purports to be bans on gender-affirming care only for minors will not function that way. It's for many folks, ... we see that as an attempt to ban care for really everyone," said Harper Seldin, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union's LGBTQ and HIV Project.

Bills that block the use of public funds are susceptible to a broad reading, meaning that a "hospital or entity that received state funds for any reasons perhaps could not provide [gender-affirming care] even if the care itself is only paid for with private funding," Seldin added.

Between the lines: Oklahoma and Florida are quickly advancing bills to ban health care for minors that also prohibit health care coverage of gender-transition treatments for any person regardless of age. Arkansas has a law in its books that does the same, but it is currently blocked.

Florida's bill adds restrictions for adults seeking gender-affirming care, such as requiring a patient to submit a written consent form to their provider each time they meet for an appointment.

Bills that create insurance coverage regulations and add restrictions are "more likely" to become enacted than outright adult bans, said Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director and senior counsel at the Human Rights Campaign. 

However, Oakley added that anti-trans bills have been getting increasingly more restrictive over the years, and bans with increased age limits are a "continuation" of that trend. 

What we're watching: Republican politicians have become more outspoken in their opposition to gender-affirming care, with messaging that could intensify as the 2024 elections draw closer.

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It takes a variety of overlapping sensors working together for self-driving cars to accurately perceive the world around them.

Why it matters: Cars that drive themselves — whether in limited highway settings or in geofenced urban areas, like robotaxis — require superhuman vision, along with sophisticated prediction and decision-making capabilities.

How it works: Each type of sensor has strengths and weaknesses. Putting them together in an AI-driven process called "sensor fusion" helps cars make sense of the constant flow of information.

Multiple cameras with different ranges and purposes help cars get a 360-degree view of their environment. 

But cameras can't calculate distance and aren't great in rain and fog. Infrared cameras can help with night vision.

Radar supplements camera views by sending out pulsating radio waves that can detect objects and provide data about their speed and distance.

Yet radar's accuracy and resolution are low, so it can't identify objects.

Lidar paints a detailed 3D picture of a car's environment using signals that bounce back from high-speed lasers. 

Once prohibitively expensive, lidar is now being used even in assisted-driving systems with lower levels of autonomy.

Ultrasonic sensors mimic the way bats orient themselves by transmitting high-frequency sound waves to gauge the distance of objects within close range, like parked cars.

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