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Minitrue: “Delete All Content Related to Panama Papers”
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. All websites: please self-inspect and delete all content related to the “Panama Papers” leak, including news reporting, microblogs, WeChat, forums, community pages, bulletin boards, cloud storage, comments and other interactive media. Delete mobile content
Person of the Week: Big Spender
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens or encountered in online political discussions. These are the words...
Xi Jinping: Core Leader, Not Cult Leader
Since assuming office in 2012, President Xi Jinping has been portrayed in state media publications with more frequency and enthusiasm than any of his predecessors since Mao Zedong....
“Ten Years” Stirs Controversy Over HK Film Awards Voting...
The low-budget 2015 speculative fiction film “Ten Years” (十年) tells five stories set in Hong Kong in 2025, where Beijing’s increasing influence has led...
Badiucao (巴丢草): The Elusive Pana-mare
The Panama Papers leaks unveiled on Sunday have implicated “family members of at least eight current or former members of China’s Politburo Standing Committee” in the ownership...
SCMP Paywall Falls as State Media Look Abroad
Last December, Chinese internet giant Alibaba announced plans to buy influential Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper the South China Morning Post. Ahead of the acquisition,...
Fang Binxing Navigates Around Great Firewall
Recent foreign media coverage of Xi Jinping has led China’s internet censors to block news sites with offending articles, including The Economist and Time.
Politics
A Travel Agency’s Warning for Tourists in Taiwan
Growing tourism between China and Taiwan is part of an array of heightened contacts
Economy
Strikes on the Rise in China as Economy Slows
China’s slowing economy has led to an increase in worker strikes, disputes,
Culture & the Arts
Three Hong Kong Booksellers To Be Released on Bail
Three of the five Hong Kong booksellers and publishers who are under police detention
Sci-Tech
Google DNS Poisoning Follows Brief Unblocking
Percy Alpha, an independent Internet freedom researcher and co-founder of GreatFire.org,
Environment
Tibetan Delegates Wear Xi Badges “of Own Free Will”
With the annual “Two Sessions” political assemblies underway
Human Rights
Activist Barred From Travel; Obama Urged to Press Xi
The Hong Kong Free Press reports that civil rights lawyer and activist Ni Yulan
Information Revolution
China Previews Murky Web Domain Rules
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology this week posted
The Great Divide
David Bandurski on “Dragons in Diamond Village”
Award-winning writer and independent film producer David Bandurski is the
Hong Kong
New Questions Emerge Over HK Booksellers’ Detentions
Cheung Chi-ping and Lui Por—two of the five employees of a Hong Kong publishing
Taiwan
Travel Bans for Great Famine Historian, Uyghur Activist
Yang Jisheng, a retired Xinhua journalist, has been banned from traveling to
Translation
Xinhua: “April Fools’ at Odds With Socialist Values”
China’s state news agency Xinhua issued a brief statement on its official Sina
China & the World
Xi Resignation Letter: 20 Detained, Site Faces Closure
On March 4, the opening day of the annual top political meetings in Beijing, the
