John Chan is the pen name for an editor at CDT. His thematic focuses include U.S.-China relations, big tech, and Hong Kong issues.
Zhang Zhan, lawyer-turned-citizen journalist who documented the lockdown of Wuhan at the start of the COVID-19 epidemic, has been jailed for four years for her reporting. She was the fourth citizen journalist to be arrested and...
Read MoreHong Kong’s highest court has upheld a ban on mask wearing imposed by the government at the height of the 2019 protests, a major blow for the city’s pro-democracy movement. The ban, introduced using a colonial era...
Read MoreChina has officially banned the importation of Australian coal, striking at the heart of the country’s energy sector. The decision, announced on Monday, escalates the Australia-China trade war that began after Canberra...
Read MoreA series of enforcement measures and proposed laws have drawn heightened attention to Beijing’s plans to rein in and remake the environment for big tech in China. Taken together, they reveal an unprecedented willingness by...
Read MoreA new report from the Center for Global Policy has revealed that systematic forced labor has been employed in a much greater proportion of the Xinjiang cotton trade than previously thought. In the report, researcher Adrian Zenz...
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