Hong Kong’s Free Media Forced To Self-Censor; First National Security Trial Held
by Alexander Boyd | Jun 29, 2021
Hong Kong’s National Security Law has been used to cudgel the city’s free media within an inch of its life. What began with a slow effort to pare Hong Kong’s premier broadcast television network RTHK of its investigative teeth...
Read MoreTranslation: Timeline of Court Rulings Removed from the Internet
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 29, 2021
A vast online database of Chinese court rulings has just shrunk by over 9%. Though China Judgments Online (中国裁判文书网), launched in 2014 by the Supreme People’s Court, has always been translucent at best—it is supposed to exclude...
Read MoreThe Party Works to Ensure Nothing, Especially Not History, Will Spoil 100th Anniversary
by Alexander Boyd | Jun 28, 2021
On July 1, the Chinese Communist Party will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. The Party was actually founded on July 23 but the mixup, although acknowledged, has never been rectified—perhaps because the date has a...
Read MoreTranslations: One Apple Falls, And A Thousand Apples Grow
by John Chan | Jun 25, 2021
In a year of wretched milestones for Hong Kong’s civil liberties, this week stands apart, with the closure of Hong Kong’s only pro-democracy legacy newspaper, Apple Daily. From the arrest of five Apple Daily...
Read MoreChina Uses Global Influence Campaign To Deny Forced Labor, Mass Incarceration in Xinjiang
by Alexander Boyd | Jun 25, 2021
A landmark investigation from The Washington Post has added further evidence to allegations of forced labor in Xinjiang’s solar industry. The systemic use of forced labor in Xinjiang is part of a sweeping government campaign...
Read MoreMinitrue: Remove Products Touting “Lying Down” and “Involution”
by Sophie Beach | Jun 25, 2021
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media and internet companies by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. Hello...
Read MoreTranslation: “Program-Think,” Notorious Anonymous Chinese Blogger, Feared Detained
by John Chan | Jun 24, 2021
An anonymous Chinese tech and politics blogger known as program-think (编程随想) has reportedly been detained in China after evading identification and arrest for more than 12 years. program-think, whose Blogspot posts included...
Read MorePolitics and Promotions Weigh On Chinese Academics
by Alexander Boyd | Jun 24, 2021
Life in Chinese academia is hard. Scholars are subject to twin pressures: politics and performance. Two recent cases—a professor’s lawsuit against Tsinghua University over wrongful dismissal connected to politically sensitive...
Read MoreApple Daily Publishes Final Issue Amid Tears, Applause, and Fears for Hong Kong’s Future
by Sophie Beach | Jun 23, 2021
Following last week’s arrest of five Apple Daily executives on national security charges and the freezing of the company’s bank accounts, Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy newspaper published its final issue early...
Read MoreLinkedIn Censors Tiananmen Content, Again
by Alexander Boyd | Jun 22, 2021
When Microsoft’s LinkedIn launched a simplified Chinese webpage for Chinese users in 2014, it admitted it would follow Beijing’s censorship directives. It did so with a gusto that surprised even those who had engineered the...
Read MoreTranslation: Popular Science Platform Shut Down After Nationalistic Backlash
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 22, 2021
A Chinese science media platform has suspended operations after being accused of bias against China. PaperClip (回形针), a Beijing-based platform known for popular science videos, has been caught in a nationalistic uproar in recent...
Read MoreHungarian Protestors Oppose Flagship Belt and Road Project, a Fudan University Satellite Campus
by Alexander Boyd | Jun 21, 2021
A 10,000 person protest in Budapest may have derailed a landmark Belt and Road Initiative project in the Hungarian capital: a satellite campus of China’s prestigious Fudan University. At Reuters, Anita Komuves covered the...
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