A human rights organisation has revealed that Australia’s largest super funds have invested over $1 billion (US$729 million) of Aussies retirement savings into China-based tech companies accused of aiding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Uyghurs and other minority groups. Hong Kong Watch (HKW) has urged AustralianSuper and the state-owned Commonwealth Superannuation to divest its funding after releasing a report that found a combined $1,095 billion (US$800 million) has been invested into major Chinese companies Alibaba and Tencent. It is alleged that Alibaba has offered customers ethnicity recognition software capable of identifying Uyghurs. HKW also raised concern about Alibaba’s social credit application, Sesame Credit, which “may be absorbed into the Chinese state’s dystopian social credit system.” The report further noted that Tencent’s WeChat, China’s most significant multi-purpose social media and payment app, had been accused by Humans Rights Watch of censorship and surveillance under the directive of the CCP. In 2020, AustralianSuper …