Critics Facing Uphill Battle in Efforts to Organize Olympics Boycott
by John Chan | Feb 17, 2021
A growing number of voices are calling for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. While discussion among Western countries about a boycott has circulated for months, voices in favor of a boycott have grown stronger in...
Read More“Sinicization” Campaigns Target Religious and Ethnic Minorities Across China
by Alexander Boyd | Feb 17, 2021
Under Xi Jinping, China has launched aggressive religious “sinicization” campaigns that have affected the constitutionally protected freedom to religious belief of many in China. Members of China’s ethnic minority groups...
Read MoreWHO Investigators Detail Political Environment During China Field Research
by Alexander Boyd | Feb 16, 2021
Peter Ben Embarek, the leader of the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origin of COVID-19, has walked back comments he made in Wuhan that seemed to endorse controversial Chinese government narratives. During a...
Read MoreTranslation: “Goodbye, Ilham,” by Huang Zhangjin
by Josh Rudolph | Feb 16, 2021
Uyghur intellectual Ilham Tohti has been serving a life sentence for separatism since 2014. Widely known during his career as a moderate voice aiming for productive dialogue between Uyghurs and Han within China, the scholar and...
Read MoreTranslation: Why Did Clubhouse Have To Die?
by John Chan | Feb 12, 2021
Audio social-networking app Clubhouse has been banned in China since Monday evening. Much has been written in English language media about the explosion in popularity in China that preceded its ban, lamenting its...
Read MoreCCTV Spring Festival Gala Features Blackface, Again
by Alexander Boyd | Feb 12, 2021
This year’s CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala, the massively popular annual variety show aired since 1983, included blackfaced dancers in a performance titled “African Song and Dance,” alongside belly dancers, flamenco...
Read MoreCDT Weekly, February 5-11: Clubhouse, Li Wenliang, BBC Xinjiang Report Reactions, COVID’s Origins
by Samuel Wade | Feb 11, 2021
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first edition of CDT’s new weekly roundup, also available as an email newsletter through Substack. With these updates, we aim to provide an overview of new content across CDT’s English and...
Read MoreIn First Phone Call, Biden and Xi Hash Out Differences, Set Stage for “Extreme Competition”
by Alexander Boyd | Feb 11, 2021
On February 10, newly elected President Joe Biden spoke with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for the first time in office. The Biden White House and China’s Xinhua News both provided readouts of the call. Human rights appeared to be a...
Read MoreHow Hong Kong’s First National Security Cases Have Changed Its Courts
by John Chan | Feb 10, 2021
Since the Hong Kong National Security Law (NSL) was enacted a little over seven months ago, 97 people have been arrested under the law, and eight have been charged. For Hong Kong’s judiciary, the challenge at hand now is...
Read MoreStark Decline in Birth Rate a Legacy of Pandemic, One-Child Policy, and Choice
by Alexander Boyd | Feb 10, 2021
Unofficial data published by China’s Ministry of Public Security indicated a 15% decline in new birth registrations in 2020. The drop off is a reflection of a host of factors: the coronavirus epidemic, legacies of the...
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