“The people have sharp eyes.” (“群众的眼睛是雪亮的.”) This Communist Party slogan was heavily used during the Cultural Revolution, an era in which citizens were incentivized to spy on and even falsely accuse family and neighbors of being disloyal to authority. More than 50 years after that tumultuous era...
Since late July, Beijing has worked to promote its own counternarrative against protesters in Hong Kong. By this account, encapsulated in a recent letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which...
After three months of ongoing protests in Hong Kong, Chief Executive Carrie Lam has announced the full withdrawal of the proposed extradition bill. Opposition to the bill first ignited the protest...
Seven months after being detained by Chinese authorities shortly after landing in Guangzhou, Yang Hengjun was last week formally arrested on espionage charges. At CNN, Angus Watson and Steven Jiang...
Under Xi Jinping, Chinese journalists have faced tightening controls from the government, as officials have imposed ideological, political, and legal limits on their reporting while escalating online censorship and sending...
As China accuses the U.S. of spreading “lies” about mass detention in Xinjiang after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged to take the mass incarceration of Uyghurs in the region to the United Nations, Human Rights...
This is the third part of CDT’s Sharper Eyes series. See also “Surveilling the Surveillers (Part 1)” and “Sharp Eyes Project Map (Part 2).” In previous posts, CDT introduced the background of the...
A song titled “Glory to Hong Kong” has quickly become the de facto anthem of the protest movement which has taken to the streets for the past three months calling for withdrawal of a proposed extradition bill. While...
Hong Kong democracy activist and Demosistō co-founder Joshua Wong traveled to Germany yesterday, where he met with Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in Berlin. Wong was among several high-profile activists and lawmakers arrested late...
CDT would like to present an interactive map as part of our series on China’s “Sharp Eyes” rural surveillance program. This map, a work in progress that will be updated in the coming months, displays the sites...
Amid ongoing protests in Hong Kong, police have arrested three pro-democracy lawmakers, two...
Journalist Chun Han Wong, a Singapore national who has reported for the Wall Street Journal in...
The emerging use of artificial intelligence-aided analysis in public school classrooms has raised...
Chinese human rights lawyer Chen Qiushi confirmed that he has returned safely to mainland China...
As protests against a proposed, and now postponed, extradition law entered their third month in...
At The Guardian, Gethin Chamberlain reports that documents leaked to U.S.-based China Labor Watch...
The Chinese Film Association has barred mainland actors and directors from participating in the...
The wife of jailed human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang visited her husband for the second time at...
The Xinjiang region has been the site of a mass detention program where an estimated 1.5 million...
Huang Qi, who became known as China’s first cyber dissident after his first arrest in 2000,...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Reuters’ David Stanway reports on a new white paper titled “Historical Matters...
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