Sony, North Korea, and Human RightsJamie MetzlJamie Metzl//jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/jm-logo-blu2-2.png
The recent cyberattack on Sony, allegedly perpetrated by North Korea, highlights a dangerous increase in the vulnerability of our globalized world.
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We’ll Know Xi Jinping is Serious About Cracking Down on Corruption Wen…Jamie MetzlJamie Metzl//jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/jm-logo-blu2-2.png
In my CNN.com blog post, I argue that if Xi Jinping’s top down approach is not matched by a bottom-up empowerment of the people being most harmed by China’s corruption pandemic it will have little chance of success. When Chinese media reports critically on the vast wealth accrued by the families of former Chongqing leader Bo Xilai, Zhou Yongkang, and others, it’s easy to remember the Bloomberg and New York Times reports on the millions of dollars held by Xi’s and former Premier Wen Jiabao‘s families. And no one believes that China’s government leaders, among the wealthiest in the world, are getting rich from their salaries alone.
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China Missing an Historic Opportunity with Tibethttps://jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg150150Jamie MetzlJamie Metzl//jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/jm-logo-blu2-2.png
I’m just back from spending four days in the Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India visiting my Tibetan friends exiled there.
As is well known, the Chinese army marched into Tibet in October 1949 and routed the Tibetan army a year later. In 1951 China and a Tibetan delegation signed the “seventeen point agreement” codifying the new status of Tibet as a national regional autonomy within the People’s Republic of China. As conditions worsened, a Tibetan national uprising broke out in 1959, which was crushed by the Chinese, resulting in an estimated eighty-seven thousand Tibetan deaths
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