In part two of our retrospective on the most sensitive topics of 2023, as selected by our Chinese team, we focus on dissent and disasters. In part one we covered long-standing taboos on discussions about Xi Jiping and the...
After 200 days, the long-running “Arctic Catfish” scandal has reached a conclusion, dissatisfying and anticlimactic as it may be. It began after social media user “Arctic Catfish” (北极鲶鱼, Běijí Niányú), a young Chinese woman...
A report by the NGO Hong Kong Watch reveals that numerous major international pension funds have been heavily invested in Chinese companies connected to serious human rights issues. Some of these pension holders, such as members...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
At his V-Day anniversary parade in Beijing last year, Xi Jinping announced that the People’s...
With China’s pension fund facing mounting pressure as its population continues to...
Despite a lack of organized unions in China, 8,000 teachers in Zhaodong, Heilongjiang organized a...
Caixin’s Lan Fang describes the predicament of China’s first generation of migrant...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Tens of thousands of workers have been on strike at multiple factories for Yue Yuen, the...
AFP reports on the National People’s Congress scheduled to commence this Wednesday. Topics...
A planned relaxation of the one-child policy has been among the most widely discussed aspects of...
Harvard lecturer and Brookings fellow Robert C. Pozen is the author of a recent policy paper...
Soon after China’s revised filial piety law requiring regular visits to aging parents took effect last Monday, entrepreneurs have started offering elder-care services on e-commerce platforms. From The Wall Street...
In a New York Times op-ed, author Yu Hua complains that by compelling regular contact with parents with China’s recently amended “filial piety law”, the Party is using legislation to replace values that it...
An amended law encouraging adult children to visit their parents went into effect on Monday in China. This legislative action can be seen to reflect the changes that rapid social and economic transformation are having on a...
Central Propaganda Department: In the near future, Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily, and other...
The Economist details the challenges facing China’s pension system, which has grown considerably in the last several years but still must grapple with a number of structural inefficiencies: Unlike individual accounts in...
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