
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.

Qingdao Binhai University (青島濱海學院) is a private university in Qingdao’s West Coast New Area, Shandong province. Founded in 1992, it became one of Shandong’s first two private institutions authorized to grant bachelor’s degrees in 2005, according to the university’s own profile. The university reports approximately 24,000 full-time students and around 200 international students studying on campus annually, with a cumulative total of more than 2,000 long-term international students from nearly 30 countries over its history. It maintains partnerships with more than 140 universities and research institutions across 40 countries, including Russia, and Taiwan. The university operates a Shandong Provincial Foreign Affairs Research and Development Think Tank (山東省外事研究與發展智庫), one of several provincially designated research platforms hosted on campus. In April 2026, the university’s International Civil Diplomacy Research Center signed a cooperation agreement with the Russian outlet Dragon Newspaper.
