CDT noted last month that recent Chinese naval exercises around Australia had sparked a spike in comments on Chinese social media advocating the conquest of Australia. While some may have been a joke, others appeared...
The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war last week was to censor online commentary about the scale of tariffs. Now, it has responded with targeted messaging...
More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li...
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital...
Hu Dehua, the third son of former General Secretary Hu Yaobang, died in Beijing on March 30. The...
What do you want to tell the Chinese people?”
“I hope China can maintain a sensible stance and avoid rashly starting or getting drawn into a war. People watch these exaggerated patriotic dramas that glorify war, and get all fired up. But the reality is incredibly brutal. It’s hell on earth.”— From an interview between investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Chao Jing and "Macaron," a Chinese mercenary fighting on the Russian side in Ukraine.
The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war last week was to censor online commentary about the scale of tariffs. Now, it has responded with targeted messaging intended to not only rally the Chinese public around a nationalist defense, but also demoralize the American public about the costs of economic decoupling from China. The Economist summarized this shift with a headline on Wednesday that read, “China’s propagandists preach defiance in the trade war with America.” Lily Kuo at The Washington Post reported on Thursday about “China’s PR...
More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li...
Hu Dehua, the third son of former General Secretary Hu Yaobang, died in Beijing on March 30. The...
In recent days, the capture of two Chinese soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has...
The latest political development in Hong Kong underscores the extent to which authorities have cleansed the city of democracy. On Sunday, the Democratic Party, Hong Kong’s last remaining opposition party, decided that it will soon disband under pressure from officials. Its members voted to begin the process, although the final motion to officially disband the party will be taken at another general meeting later in the year. James Pomfret and Jessie Pang from Reuters described the cause and significance of the party’s disbandment: Five senior members of the Democratic Party had earlier told...
The Trump administration’s recent tariff measures triggered a geopolitical earthquake that has...
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A 7.7 magnitude earthquake recorded on Friday near the Burmese city of Mandalay has killed at...
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing have found themselves in the...
The Open Technology Fund published a report earlier this month highlighting the rise of...
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital connectivity to enhance its repression of Tibetans on the plateau and in the diaspora. On Wednesday, Turquoise Roof and Tibet Watch published a report titled “A Long Shadow: The expansion and export of China’s digital repression model in Tibet,” which examined procurement documents from a digital forensics firm integral to the securitization of Tibetans’ digital networks. From the report’s executive summary: Recent procurement documents reveal that Meiya Pico, a Chinese state-owned digital forensics firm,...
Last week, Chinese state media reported that Wu Yingjie, the former Party chief of the Tibetan...
Last week, a Chinese PhD student at University College London was found guilty by a British court...
Convening next week for its annual gathering, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...
Thailand’s government deported 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China in a secretive overnight...
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The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war last week was to censor online commentary about the scale of tariffs. Now, it has responded with targeted messaging intended to not only rally the Chinese public around a nationalist defense, but also demoralize the American public about the costs of economic decoupling from China. The Economist summarized this shift with a headline on Wednesday that read, “China’s propagandists preach defiance in the trade war with America.” Lily Kuo at The Washington Post reported on Thursday about “China’s PR...
More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li...
Hu Dehua, the third son of former General Secretary Hu Yaobang, died in Beijing on March 30. The...
In recent days, the capture of two Chinese soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has...
CDT noted last month that recent Chinese naval exercises around Australia had sparked a spike in comments on Chinese social media advocating the conquest of Australia. While some may have been a joke, others appeared serious, and were taken seriously by commentators such as current affairs and science blogger Xiang Dongliang, who wrote: “Popular sentiment really has shifted. My heartfelt prayer, as a humble science blogger: May Buddha bless and protect us.” While the occupation of a three-million-square-mile island nearly two thousand miles from China might charitably be described as...
The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war...
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital...
Hu Dehua, the third son of former General Secretary Hu Yaobang, died in Beijing on March 30. The...
The latest political development in Hong Kong underscores the extent to which authorities have...
In recent days, the capture of two Chinese soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine...
The latest political development in Hong Kong underscores the extent to which authorities have cleansed the city of democracy. On Sunday, the Democratic Party, Hong Kong’s last remaining opposition party, decided that it will soon disband under pressure from officials. Its members voted to begin the process, although the final motion to officially disband the party will be taken at another general meeting later in the year. James Pomfret and Jessie Pang from Reuters described the cause and significance of the party’s disbandment: Five senior members of the Democratic Party had earlier told...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic, and shed light on the propaganda machinery’s efforts to grapple with the outbreak. They were originally published between September and December, 2020 as the Minitrue Diary series, after the censorship and propaganda organs’ Orwellian online nickname 真理部 Zhēnlǐ bù, or "Ministry of...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
A recent WeChat post reveals that some Chinese schools and universities are using special software...
In the two weeks since the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China...
A pair of recently surfaced screenshots appear to offer unusual detail about a special month-long...
On September 12, 2003, John Battelle published the first post on chinadigitaltimes.net: Here’s what a Google Search on “china weblog” yields, I’m looking forward to seeing ours at the top soon! China’s online population at the start of that year was nearly 60 million. Ten years later, it was fast approaching 600 million, and now, after 20, it is well over a billion. This new completely revised and hugely expanded update to our ebook series, formerly known as “the Grass Mud Horse Lexicon,” aims to capture something of the enormous explosion of online speech that accompanied this growth, with...
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Surveys have shown that Xi Jinping’s hardline foreign policy is increasingly unpopular abroad....
Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of Government at Cornell University, joined CDT to discuss his...
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CDT noted last month that recent Chinese naval exercises around Australia had sparked a spike in comments on Chinese social media advocating the conquest of Australia. While some may have been a joke, others appeared serious, and were taken seriously by commentators such as current affairs and science blogger Xiang Dongliang, who wrote: “Popular sentiment really has shifted. My heartfelt prayer, as a humble science blogger: May Buddha bless and protect us.” While the occupation of a three-million-square-mile island nearly two thousand miles from China might charitably be described as...
The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war...
The Trump administration’s recent tariff measures triggered a geopolitical earthquake that has...
While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has...
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing have found themselves in the...
Chinese tech giant Huawei is embroiled in a major corruption scandal, in which the company is...
The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war last week was to censor online commentary about the scale of tariffs. Now, it has responded with targeted messaging intended to not only rally the Chinese public around a nationalist defense, but also demoralize the American public about the costs of economic decoupling from China. The Economist summarized this shift with a headline on Wednesday that read, “China’s propagandists preach defiance in the trade war with America.” Lily Kuo at The Washington Post reported on Thursday about “China’s PR...
More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li...
Hu Dehua, the third son of former General Secretary Hu Yaobang, died in Beijing on March 30. The...
In recent days, the capture of two Chinese soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
This week, 20-year-old American influencer Darren Watkins Jr., better known as IShowSpeed,...
More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, many Chinese citizens continue to remember the events of the pandemic and to pay tribute to Dr. Li and other individuals who risked their lives and freedom to help keep their colleagues, neighbors, and the general public safe. Several recent posts from CDT Chinese illustrate this continuing resistance to “officially induced amnesia” about the pandemic. "Return to Wuhan: The Unfinished Story From Five Years Ago,” a now-deleted longform article from WeChat public account “Aquarius Era”...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
The Open Technology Fund published a report earlier this month highlighting the rise of...
Chinese tech giant Huawei is embroiled in a major corruption scandal, in which the company is...
A new report by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) explores the growing demand for human-powered...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital connectivity to enhance its repression of Tibetans on the plateau and in the diaspora. On Wednesday, Turquoise Roof and Tibet Watch published a report titled “A Long Shadow: The expansion and export of China’s digital repression model in Tibet,” which examined procurement documents from a digital forensics firm integral to the securitization of Tibetans’ digital networks. From the report’s executive summary: Recent procurement documents reveal that Meiya Pico, a Chinese state-owned digital forensics firm,...
The latest political development in Hong Kong underscores the extent to which authorities have...
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing have found themselves in the...
Despite troubling jurisdictional issues, the Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau in...
Chinese tech giant Huawei is embroiled in a major corruption scandal, in which the company is...
Last week, Chinese state media reported that Wu Yingjie, the former Party chief of the Tibetan...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic, and shed light on the propaganda machinery’s efforts to grapple with the outbreak. They were originally published between September and December, 2020 as the Minitrue Diary series, after the censorship and propaganda organs’ Orwellian online nickname 真理部 Zhēnlǐ bù, or "Ministry of...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
On March 16, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that the Chinese economy was...
A recent WeChat post from oft-controversial entrepreneur, publicity hound, and philanthropist Chen...
Even before the lifting of China’s long-standing “zero-COVID” policy in early December of last...
After conducting nucleic acid testing on its 26 million residents this week, Shanghai remains...
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital connectivity to enhance its repression of Tibetans on the plateau and in the diaspora. On Wednesday, Turquoise Roof and Tibet Watch published a report titled “A Long Shadow: The expansion and export of China’s digital repression model in Tibet,” which examined procurement documents from a digital forensics firm integral to the securitization of Tibetans’ digital networks. From the report’s executive summary: Recent procurement documents reveal that Meiya Pico, a Chinese state-owned digital forensics firm,...
Last week, Chinese state media reported that Wu Yingjie, the former Party chief of the Tibetan...
Last week, a Chinese PhD student at University College London was found guilty by a British court...
Following China’s unannounced naval exercises off the coast of Australia late last month, there has been a noticeable increase in Chinese social media content promoting the invasion (or “nabbing/seizing”) of Australia. There has also been pushback: many Chinese bloggers and commenters have expressed alarm about the rise of such bellicose online sentiment, and the extent to which it is being allowed to proliferate online, particularly in comparison to platform censorship of some more level-headed commentary on Sino-Australian relations. Last month’s Chinese live-fire naval drills, while...
A photo showing three construction workers suspended from a gateway in their safety harnesses has...
China’s annual Two Sessions political meetings recently drew to a close, minus the presence of...
This year, the theme of World Consumer Rights Day on March 15 was “a just transition to sustainable lifestyles.” As it has every year since 1991, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV marked the occasion with a televised “315 Gala” exposing some of the most notable consumer rights scandals from the past year. The 2025 edition highlighted supply chain issues in some consumer products being sold online, including seafood suppliers that use illegal additives to increase the weight of prepackaged frozen shrimp, and factories that sell diapers and sanitary pads made from recycled waste. (Last year,...
At South China Morning Post last week, Mandy Zuo reported on employment targets announced at the...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
An acidic waste spill by a Chinese company in Zambia has created a massive environmental crisis that threatens a river on which millions of Zambians rely. The incident occurred last month at a facility owned by Sino-Metals Leach Zambia, a firm majority-owned by the Chinese state-run China Nonferrous Metals Industry Group. In addition to straining Zambia-China relations, the incident underscores Zambia’s economic vulnerability, since its copper extraction industry is dependent on Chinese and Western corporations with poor environmental track records. Richard Kille and Jacob Zimba at the...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital connectivity to enhance its repression of Tibetans on the plateau and in the diaspora. On Wednesday, Turquoise Roof and Tibet Watch published a report titled “A Long Shadow: The expansion and export of China’s digital repression model in Tibet,” which examined procurement documents from a digital forensics firm integral to the securitization of Tibetans’ digital networks. From the report’s executive summary: Recent procurement documents reveal that Meiya Pico, a Chinese state-owned digital forensics firm,...
The latest political development in Hong Kong underscores the extent to which authorities have...
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing have found themselves in the...
Over the past two weeks, the Biden administration has issued a series of regulations intended to halt China’s development of advanced technologies. The measures restrict the export of advanced chips, design software, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment that are crucial to China’s military, AI, and supercomputing initiatives. While the impact of these regulations remains to be seen, this “major watershed” demonstrates a significant U.S. policy shift towards a more aggressive approach to China, and risks accelerating technological and economic decoupling between the two countries across...
Popular online writer Shen Maohua, who writes under the pen name Wei Zhou, is known for his...
As citizens revolt against never-ending lockdowns and local governments “resolutely struggle...
Despite troubling jurisdictional issues, the Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau in Xinjiang has imposed a fine of 75,000 yuan (US$10,300) on Yunnan-based artist and independent filmmaker Guo Zhenming (郭珍明) for “illegal filmmaking” activities. The administrative punishment also included the confiscation of Guo’s hard drive, two cameras, and some sound and lighting equipment. The penalties are being criticized by some Chinese netizens and supporters as blatant examples of administrative overreach, “high-seas fishing,” and suppression of artistic freedom. The unusually harsh punishment...
This year, the theme of World Consumer Rights Day on March 15 was “a just transition to...
Convening next week for its annual gathering, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic, and shed light on the propaganda machinery’s efforts to grapple with the outbreak. They were originally published between September and December, 2020 as the Minitrue Diary series, after the censorship and propaganda organs’ Orwellian online nickname 真理部 Zhēnlǐ bù, or "Ministry of...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
On March 16, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that the Chinese economy was...
More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, many Chinese citizens continue to remember the events of the pandemic and to pay tribute to Dr. Li and other individuals who risked their lives and freedom to help keep their colleagues, neighbors, and the general public safe. Several recent posts from CDT Chinese illustrate this continuing resistance to “officially induced amnesia” about the pandemic. "Return to Wuhan: The Unfinished Story From Five Years Ago,” a now-deleted longform article from WeChat public account “Aquarius Era”...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
The Open Technology Fund published a report earlier this month highlighting the rise of...
An acidic waste spill by a Chinese company in Zambia has created a massive environmental crisis that threatens a river on which millions of Zambians rely. The incident occurred last month at a facility owned by Sino-Metals Leach Zambia, a firm majority-owned by the Chinese state-run China Nonferrous Metals Industry Group. In addition to straining Zambia-China relations, the incident underscores Zambia’s economic vulnerability, since its copper extraction industry is dependent on Chinese and Western corporations with poor environmental track records. Richard Kille and Jacob Zimba at the...
On Tuesday morning, a county in Tibet experienced one of its strongest earthquakes in years....
Infrastructure projects in Tibet have often drawn controversy for failing to balance development,...
The latest political development in Hong Kong underscores the extent to which authorities have cleansed the city of democracy. On Sunday, the Democratic Party, Hong Kong’s last remaining opposition party, decided that it will soon disband under pressure from officials. Its members voted to begin the process, although the final motion to officially disband the party will be taken at another general meeting later in the year. James Pomfret and Jessie Pang from Reuters described the cause and significance of the party’s disbandment: Five senior members of the Democratic Party had earlier told...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
Following China’s unannounced naval exercises off the coast of Australia late last month, there has been a noticeable increase in Chinese social media content promoting the invasion (or “nabbing/seizing”) of Australia. There has also been pushback: many Chinese bloggers and commenters have expressed alarm about the rise of such bellicose online sentiment, and the extent to which it is being allowed to proliferate online, particularly in comparison to platform censorship of some more level-headed commentary on Sino-Australian relations. Last month’s Chinese live-fire naval drills, while...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
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