So no elections means no chaos?”

— Weibo user 你不要脸了哈哈哈 (nǐ bùyào liǎn le, hahaha, "You have no shame, hahaha") responding to a three-minute video from state news agency China News Service that purported to explain "American election chaos." The video was widely mocked on Chinese social media.

 

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Translation: Two Essays Explore What Trump 2.0 Means for China-U.S. Relations

Following a hotly contested U.S. election that reverberated across Chinese social media, drawing hundreds of millions of views on Weibo and birthing myriad memes, many Chinese academics and commentators are turning their attention to what a second Trump administration might bode for the future of China-U.S. relations. Two recent articles by very different authors illustrate some of the election-related themes, questions, and concerns now being discussed in Chinese online spaces. The first, by political scientist Ding Xueliang (丁学良, Dīng Xuéliáng), was published by the public WeChat account...

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Fears Rise for Health of Pioneering Lawyer Xu Zhiyong, Nearly One Month Into His Hunger Strike to Protest Mistreatment in Prison

Concern is mounting over the health of imprisoned civil society activist and human-rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong, who has been on a nearly one-month hunger strike to protest his mistreatment in Shandong’s Lunan Prison. Many human rights groups and supporters have raised the alarm about Xu’s hunger strike, weight loss, and declining health, and have urged Chinese authorities to halt his mistreatment and provide him with medical care. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing and U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns have also spoken out on Xu’s behalf. #XuZhiyong on hunger strike, day 26: No update. It's...

Fears Rise for Health of Pioneering Lawyer Xu Zhiyong, Nearly One Month Into His Hunger Strike to Protest Mistreatment in Prison

Concern is mounting over the health of imprisoned civil society activist and human-rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong, who has been on a nearly one-month hunger strike to protest his mistreatment in Shandong’s Lunan Prison. Many human rights groups and supporters have raised the alarm about Xu’s hunger strike, weight loss, and declining health, and have urged Chinese authorities to halt his mistreatment and provide him with medical care. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing and U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns have also spoken out on Xu’s behalf. #XuZhiyong on hunger strike, day 26: No update. It's...

Translation: Two Essays Explore What Trump 2.0 Means for China-U.S. Relations

Following a hotly contested U.S. election that reverberated across Chinese social media, drawing hundreds of millions of views on Weibo and birthing myriad memes, many Chinese academics and commentators are turning their attention to what a second Trump administration might bode for the future of China-U.S. relations. Two recent articles by very different authors illustrate some of the election-related themes, questions, and concerns now being discussed in Chinese online spaces. The first, by political scientist Ding Xueliang (丁学良, Dīng Xuéliáng), was published by the public WeChat account...

Translation: Two Essays Explore What Trump 2.0 Means for China-U.S. Relations

Following a hotly contested U.S. election that reverberated across Chinese social media, drawing hundreds of millions of views on Weibo and birthing myriad memes, many Chinese academics and commentators are turning their attention to what a second Trump administration might bode for the future of China-U.S. relations. Two recent articles by very different authors illustrate some of the election-related themes, questions, and concerns now being discussed in Chinese online spaces. The first, by political scientist Ding Xueliang (丁学良, Dīng Xuéliáng), was published by the public WeChat account...

As PRC Outlasts Soviet Union, Xi Jinping Warns of “Stormy Waves”

The People’s Republic of China celebrated its 75th anniversary on Tuesday, October 1. The anniversary is both political spectacle and the advent of a week-long holiday marked by decidedly apolitical leisure travel. On the eve of the anniversary, Xi Jinping delivered a speech in front of 3,000 guests, both foreign and domestic, in the Great Hall of the People. At The Guardian, Helen Davidson wrote about the relatively muted political celebrations in Beijing:  “The road ahead will not be smooth, there will definitely be difficulties and obstacles, and we may encounter major tests such as...

Translation: Chinese Universities Install Software to Identify and Punish Students Who Circumvent the Great Firewall

A recent WeChat post reveals that some Chinese schools and universities are using special software to identify and punish students who “scale the wall”—that is, circumvent China’s Great Firewall (GFW) to access overseas websites and portals. The post begins with a not-very-convincing exchange of WeChat messages between three students—identified as “student A,” “student B,” and “student C,” respectively—discussing their university’s use of the ABT Online Behavior Management System (安博通上网行为管理, Ānbótōng shàngwǎng xíngwéi guǎnlǐ) to identify and punish fellow students who circumvented the GFW to...