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CDT Editors’ Picks: The Best of 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding quotes, reports, podcasts and...

Jimmy Lai Did Not Ask the U.S. to Nuke China

Pro-democracy Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai is currently standing trial for conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiracy to publish seditious materials. Amid mass protests in the city in 2019, Lai did travel to...

1989: Background Reading

As we mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 protest movement in China, and the subsequent military...

Censoring the News Before It Happens

At The New York Review of Books, Perry Link discusses CDT’s ‘Directives from the Ministry of Truth’ series of leaked propaganda instructions: In the end […], none of the parts of [CDT founder and...

‘Hi! I’m Fang!’ The Man Who Changed China

At The New York Review of Books, Perry Link shares eight favorite memories of “astrophysicist, activist, and dissident” Fang Lizhi, who died on April 6th last year. In May, 1989, while student demonstrators were in...

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