The violent repression of the 1989 student protests scarred Chinese society. The campaign to purge “two-faced” protest sympathizers that followed was similarly painful. Yet some of the greatest unresolved anguish from...
The ninth edition of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) concluded last week in Beijing. This triennial summit attracted leaders from more than 50 African countries for a diplomatic fanfare of lavish state...
Over the summer, five scandals dominated Chinese social media: the stabbing of a Chinese school...
The Hong Kong government dealt yet another blow to the city’s press freedom on Thursday when two...
This week, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a militant separatist group from Pakistan’s...
Hyping the censorship of other accounts will also trigger censorship."
"Hilarious: censored for discussing censorship."
"Next they’ll be censoring anyone who 'hypes' the 'censorship hypers.'”— Quotes from Weibo users mocking Weibo's recent suspension of accounts that mentioned—or "hyped"—the suspension of other accounts for violating Weibo’s numerous but unwritten political taboos.
The violent repression of the 1989 student protests scarred Chinese society. The campaign to purge “two-faced” protest sympathizers that followed was similarly painful. Yet some of the greatest unresolved anguish from that tumultuous year stems from the realization among those who served prison sentences that dear friends and trusted colleagues informed on them—or even framed them. Just such a case has re-entered the public eye 35 years after the fact due to the reporting of the investigative journalist Chai Jing, creator of the 2015 air pollution documentary “Under the...
Over the summer, five scandals dominated Chinese social media: the stabbing of a Chinese school...
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs has unveiled a revised draft law that would make it simpler...
A photograph of a delivery driver forced to kneel before a neighborhood security guard in Hangzhou...
Microblogging platform Weibo is cracking down on speech about crackdowns on speech. In a weekly...
A recent scandal involving the organized theft and trafficking of thousands of corpses that were...
China dominates the global electric vehicle (EV) industry. Last year, China accounted for approximately 60 percent of global registrations of new electric vehicles, and China’s EV stock was over 4.5 times greater than that of the U.S. But while EVs promise to wean the world off harmful fossil fuels, China’s outbound investments along the EV value chain have fueled a political backlash in many Western countries anxious about Chinese dominance in their own markets. Ian Austen from The New York Times reported on the latest example this week, when Canada imposed 100 percent tariffs on Chinese...
The political atmosphere in Venezuela remains fraught in the weeks after its presidential...
This week, Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary To Lam wrapped up a three-day visit to...
On Thursday, Kiribati’s Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs released the initial results of...
Political turmoil in Bangladesh reached a climax this month as a student-led protest movement...
While territorial disputes have long played a role in Chinese economic and foreign policy, China’s...
The Chinese public has been transfixed and outraged by news of a decade-long scheme involving the theft and illegal sale of thousands of corpses for use as bone-graft raw material in dental procedures. A document leaked last week by Beijing-based lawyer Yi Shenghua (in a now-deleted Weibo post) revealed that authorities in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, were investigating 75 suspects from numerous companies, hospitals, and funeral homes spanning at least seven provinces and nearly a dozen localities. As of yesterday, Yi was reportedly ousted as director of the law firm he founded,...
The suspicious death of a Beijing tech company manager in Inner Mongolia and recent reporting...
On Sunday, Renmin University Ph.D. candidate Wang Di publicly accused her doctoral supervisor Wang...
Activists have long attempted to use legal systems to seek accountability for Uyghur forced labor...
Tuesday is the ninth anniversary of the 2015 “709” or “Black Friday”...
Last week, Chinese feminist activists in nine cities around the world held rallies and displayed...
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs has unveiled a revised draft law that would make it simpler to register marriages and potentially more difficult to divorce. The proposed changes, billed as helping to create a “family friendly society,” are generally viewed as an attempt to address a looming demographic crisis partly fueled by the nation’s plummeting birth rate. The draft law, which is open for public comment until September 11, has attracted intense public interest and a flood of online commentary, much of it anxious or skeptical. The draft maintains the existing minimum 30-day...
Microblogging platform Weibo is cracking down on speech about crackdowns on speech. In a weekly...
A recent scandal involving the organized theft and trafficking of thousands of corpses that were...
The reported theft and illegal sale of thousands of human corpses for use as raw material in bone...
In the two weeks since the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China...
For the past several months, China’s State Council Information Office has been hosting a...
The violent repression of the 1989 student protests scarred Chinese society. The campaign to purge “two-faced” protest sympathizers that followed was similarly painful. Yet some of the greatest unresolved anguish from that tumultuous year stems from the realization among those who served prison sentences that dear friends and trusted colleagues informed on them—or even framed them. Just such a case has re-entered the public eye 35 years after the fact due to the reporting of the investigative journalist Chai Jing, creator of the 2015 air pollution documentary “Under the...
Over the summer, five scandals dominated Chinese social media: the stabbing of a Chinese school...
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs has unveiled a revised draft law that would make it simpler...
The political atmosphere in Venezuela remains fraught in the weeks after its presidential...
This week, Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary To Lam wrapped up a three-day visit to...
On Thursday, Kiribati’s Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs released the initial results of...
The Hong Kong government dealt yet another blow to the city’s press freedom on Thursday when two former editors of local independent media outlet Stand News were found guilty of sedition. The judge, handpicked by Hong Kong’s chief executive, ruled against the editors, who had spent over 300 days in pre-trial detention and were the first journalists to be convicted in decades. Jessie Pang and James Pomfret from Reuters reported on the conviction: A Hong Kong court on Thursday found two editors of the now-defunct Stand News media outlet guilty of conspiring to publish seditious articles in a...
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi this week in...
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Selina Cheng announced that she was fired...
In China, the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre was met with all-out digital censorship...
For decades on June 4, Hongkongers rallied in their thousands at the city’s Victoria Park to...
On Thursday, judges delivered their verdicts for 16 of the 47 Hong Kong democrats in the city’s...
In the two weeks since the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China published a draft law proposing an ostensibly voluntary national Internet ID program and opened it up for public comment, there has been intense platform censorship of online discussion and articles about the proposal. By last week, Weibo was already blocking numerous related search terms (“national Internet ID,” “government plans to issue Internet ID numbers to all users,” “WeChat, Taobao, Xiaohongshu, others begin beta-testing national Internet ID system,” among many others) and most verified...
A pair of recently surfaced screenshots appear to offer unusual detail about a special month-long...
Over the past two weeks, the Biden administration has issued a series of regulations intended to...
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...
On Thursday, the Canadian government announced that it will ban Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE...
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...
In 2014, Leta Hong Fincher published her first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender...
Starting in March 2008, Tibetans across the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Qinghai, Gansu, and...
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...
Evidence of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang has...
The ninth edition of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) concluded last week in Beijing. This triennial summit attracted leaders from more than 50 African countries for a diplomatic fanfare of lavish state dinners, deal signings, and photo-ops meant to showcase the strength of China’s relationship with the African continent. Like the last edition of FOCAC in 2021, this one took place against the backdrop of economic slowdown in China, rising U.S.-China geopolitical tension, and a ballooning debt problem in Africa. Laurie Chen and Joe Cash from Reuters reported on the...
China dominates the global electric vehicle (EV) industry. Last year, China accounted for...
A photograph of a delivery driver forced to kneel before a neighborhood security guard in Hangzhou...
The political atmosphere in Venezuela remains fraught in the weeks after its presidential...
A recent scandal involving the organized theft and trafficking of thousands of corpses that were...
On Thursday, Kiribati’s Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs released the initial results of...
The violent repression of the 1989 student protests scarred Chinese society. The campaign to purge “two-faced” protest sympathizers that followed was similarly painful. Yet some of the greatest unresolved anguish from that tumultuous year stems from the realization among those who served prison sentences that dear friends and trusted colleagues informed on them—or even framed them. Just such a case has re-entered the public eye 35 years after the fact due to the reporting of the investigative journalist Chai Jing, creator of the 2015 air pollution documentary “Under the...
Over the summer, five scandals dominated Chinese social media: the stabbing of a Chinese school...
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs has unveiled a revised draft law that would make it simpler...
A photograph of a delivery driver forced to kneel before a neighborhood security guard in Hangzhou...
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