
Navigating Risks From Chinese Apps
An investigation report by one of Taiwan’s leading independent media outlets documents the human rights risks posed by app services created in China.

The China Foundation for Human Rights Development (中国人权发展基金会), or CFHRD, is a Beijing-based charity founded on August 15, 1994, that describes itself as a nongovernmental public foundation. Its own founding charter states that its supervising authority is “the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (Information Office of the State Council),” according to CMP’s own research. CFHRD funds the China Society for Human Rights Studies, Beijing’s primary vehicle for promoting an alternative, state-centered vision of human rights inside UN institutions, and has organized sideline events at UN human rights proceedings in Geneva. It holds special consultative status with the UN’s Economic and Social Council. While the foundation’s address is listed in online materials as being in Beijing, at a street address shared with the Development Research Center (DRC) of China’s State Council, Google Maps listing for the foundation also shows a second address in Shanghai, at Jincheng Building, 1399 Haining Road.
