Samuel Wade (@samuel_wade@mstdn.ca) is Executive Editor for CDT English, and is based in Vancouver.
CDT’s year-end roundups of memorable quotes and censored terms have both highlighted public frustration with the state of the economy and the government’s efforts to enforce positive perceptions of it. The trend...
Read MoreThe most important thing isn’t whether or not you resist. These political conditions are growing out of poor soil. Before you can grow crops, first you have to plant grass to nourish the soil. As the soil’s fertility...
Read MorePro-democracy Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai is currently standing trial for conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiracy to publish seditious materials. Amid mass protests in the city in 2019, Lai did travel to...
Read MoreThe Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ daily press conference last Thursday saw the BBC verbally tag-teamed by the nationalist state-run tabloid Global Times and the ministry’s spokesperson, Lin Jian. At issue was...
Read MoreOn WeChat last weekend, "Fatty Zhao, scholar of Song Dynasty history" reflected on a recent fire at a Shandong university. The students’ escape route was blocked by facial recognition turnstiles through which...
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