Cindy Carter
Cindy Carter is Deputy Editor for CDT English, and is based in Los Angeles.
Netizen Voices: “Stop Complaining, Hu Xijin. You Played a Part in This.”
Posted by Cindy Carter | Oct 24, 2025
Two posts from nationalist pundit and former Global Times Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin criticizing what he describes as a “collective silence” on Chinese social media have sparked intense discussion on Chinese and overseas websites....
Read MoreTranslations on Chikungunya and Mosquito Eradication in Guangdong: “Hand Over Your Keys or We’ll Pick the Locks!”
Posted by Cindy Carter | Oct 22, 2025
Public backlash has forced local officials in Pengyuan—a community in the city of Jiangmen, Guangdong province—to rescind an order requiring residents to surrender their keys so that sanitation workers can enter outbuildings to...
Read MoreTranslations: “How Can a Country That Blocks the Nobel Website Hope to Win a Nobel Prize?”
Posted by Cindy Carter | Oct 20, 2025
The news that two more Japanese scientists were awarded Nobel Prizes in the natural sciences has been met with considerable consternation on the Chinese internet. Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University and two American scientists,...
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