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Cadres Instructed To Buy, Buy, Buy China Out of Property Crisis
Are cadres the answer to China’s property market crunch? Some local officials seem to believe so. Hundreds of thousands of homebuyers across China have boycotted their mortgages payments in protest against the stalled...
WeChat “Bug” Turns Out To Be Obscure Insult for Xi Jinping
A group of students under the impression they had discovered a WeChat “bug” that hides the phrase “200 jin of dumplings” (roughly 220 pounds) had in fact stumbled upon an obscure insult for Xi Jinping that triggers automatic...
Translation: “Take All Measures to Reject Frivolous Legal Documents from the U.S.”
CDT Chinese last week reported on a notice issued by a rest home for retired officials that has been circulating online. Dated May 10, the notice asked “we will take all possible preventative measures to reject and return legal...
Tycoon Ren Zhiqiang Under Investigation After Attack on Epidemic Handling
Outspoken property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang went missing nearly four weeks ago, soon after the online circulation of an essay attributed to him which sharply attacked the official handling of the COVID-19 epidemic and especially the...
Minitrue: Do Not Transmit Video and Images of Law Enforcements Actions Around COVID-19 Prevention
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan in January, and its subsequent spread...
Violence Follows HK Government’s Activation of Emergency Powers
As anticipated, the Hong Kong government on Friday enacted colonial-era emergency powers–for the first time in over 50 years–allowing them to declare the use of face masks, paint, or any other facial obstruction...
How Technology Became a “Trap” in Xinjiang
Xinjiang has been the site of a mass detention program where an estimated 1.5 million Uyghurs have been or are being held in a series of internment camps. The camps are part of a longer-running anti-terror campaign in the...
Translation: Yue Xin “On the Week Since My Open Letter” (Full Text)
This is the full text of Peking University senior Yue Xin’s April 30 essay. For background...
Sensitive Word of the Week: Low-end Population
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
The U.S., China, and the ‘Thucydides Trap’
In his book “Destined for War: Can American and China Escape the Thucydides’s...
Crackdown on Dissent Reaches Across Borders
Following apparent cross-border police actions which led to detentions of several Chinese...
Post-Decline Weibo: Subdued Big Vs and Brother Orange
At China Real Time, Josh Chin reports on liberal businessman Wang Gongquan’s public...
Exploring a New Role: Peacemaker in Afghanistan
Over the past two years, China has been slowly increasing its engagement with Afghanistan, a...
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