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Trump Clashes With Congress Over ZTE Rescue Deal
In April, the U.S. Department of Commerce levied a crippling $1.19bn fine and seven-year export ban on Chinese tech giant ZTE for violating Iranian and North Korean trade embargoes, and failing to punish those responsible. President Donald Trump then overruled this, tweeting a personal commitment to help the firm and lift the sanctions ahead of trade talks with China. A day after Trump tweeted his support, ZTE paid $75,000 to hire Trump Campaign manager Bryan Lanza to lobby
MERICS Interview: How to Resist China’s Influence...
Last week, we published Part One of an interview with Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Director of the Research Area on Public Policy and Society at the Berlin-based Mercator Institute for China...
“John Oliver” Censored After Roast of Xi Jinping
U.S.-based British comedian John Oliver’s name has become a sensitive word on Weibo following a particularly well–researched 20-minute segment roasting Xi Jinping’s...
Translation: The Story of Ma Hu (Part 3)
Beijing-based women’s rights activist Xiao Meili recently introduced her friend Ma Hu with the first two parts of a three three-part profile. Part one told the story of Ma...
Tibetan Found Guilty of Espionage in Sweden
A Tibetan refugee living in Sweden was last Friday found guilty of gathering information for China on fellow Tibetans in the region. The 49-year-old Tibetan man, Dorjee Gyantsan,...
Chinese Embassy Lashes Out Over Australian TV Segment...
Amid heated debate over PRC influence in Australia, the country’s edition of 60 Minutes asked "Is China taking over the South Pacific?" in its broadcast on Sunday....
Exiled Lawyer Warns of “Long Arm” of Beijing’s Influence...
Exiled Chinese human rights lawyer and activist Teng Biao is calling attention to the “long arm” of China’s global influence operations, which have led to increasing...
Politics
Train Station Raises Concerns About HK Autonomy
Hong Kong’s Legislative Council yesterday approved a controversial
Economy
Minitrue: Hold Back on Fan Bingbing Tax Accusations
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities,
Culture & the Arts
Details Emerge About Xinjiang Reeducation Camp System
New reports, based on interviews with former detainees and data collected from
Sci-Tech
Facebook Under Fire for Data-sharing Agreements
With the Cambridge Analytica scandal still fresh in the public consciousness,
Environment
Government Provides Outline of Major Restructuring Plan
A new proposal put before the National People’s Congress realigns the
Human Rights
Person of the Week: Ding Zilin
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short
Information Revolution
Translation: Open Letter on PKU #MeToo Case
Gao Yan was a Chinese literature student at Peking University who killed herself
The Great Divide
A Decade Later, Wenchuan Parents Still Seek Answers
On May 12, 2008, a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Wenchuan, Sichuan
Hong Kong
Chinese Influence Takes to the Skies
On April 25, a letter from the Chinese Civil Aviation Authority to 36 foreign airlines
Taiwan
Burkina Faso Cuts Ties with Taiwan
Weeks after the Dominican Republic switched its diplomatic allegiance from
Translation
Fake Official Account of the Week: @ComYouthLeague
On September 12, 2017, shortly after registering an account on Twitter, @ComYouthLeague
China & the World
How Overseas Chinese Students Navigate Ideology
At the Los Angeles Review of Books’ China Channel, Lu Xiaoyu, a doctorate
