Josh Rudolph
Josh Rudolph finished an MA in Asia Pacific Policy Studies at UBC's Institute of Asian Research in 2013, and was an editor at CDT English until 2021. He currently lives in British Columbia.
Sensitive Words: “Let’s Go, America”
Posted by Josh Rudolph | Mar 27, 2020
Following a week of bitter back-and-forth coronavirus blaming between Beijing and Washington that further strained highly tense Sino-U.S. relations, Trump tweeted on Thursday night: Just finished a very good conversation with...
Read MoreGrass-Mud Horse Lexicon: “Everything is Fake!”
Posted by Josh Rudolph | Mar 26, 2020
The following term comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to...
Read MoreExternal Propaganda Casts Beijing as Leader in Global Coronavirus Fight
Posted by Josh Rudolph | Mar 24, 2020
For nearly three months, Chinese authorities have relied on censorship and propaganda to control the domestic narrative about the COVID-19 novel epidemic. In an attempt to keep the populace calm, early cases in Wuhan were...
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Unbounded by Lantern
CDT in the News
- FP China Brief – A Bad Week for Washington’s China Hawks
- CNN – China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems
- NED – China Digital Times: 2025 Democracy Award Honoree
- China Brief – Beijing’s War on ‘Negative Energy’
- China Media Project – Hubei Hit-and-Run Escapes the Headlines
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