WWII Anniversary Amnesty and Xi’s Personal Power
To mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II next week, Chinese legislators are...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 26, 2015
To mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II next week, Chinese legislators are...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 31, 2015
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) this morning announced that China won its $1.5 billion...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 28, 2015
On Friday July 31, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will meet in Kuala Lumpur to elect...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 25, 2015
While state media has cited the “near flawless organization” of the Beijing Olympics...
by Anne Henochowicz | Apr 24, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 6, 2013
China’s Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday that it will bid against Germany, Kazakhstan,...
by Natalie Ornell | Oct 5, 2013
Oliver Wainwright reports for the The Guardian that Beijing Design Week architects have carried...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 23, 2013
At The Atlantic, Thomas Stevenson describes the personal and professional risks faced by China’s rights lawyers, often with little reward in terms of money or courtroom victories. Mr. Wen is an earnest man in his early 30s...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 16, 2013
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Pallavi Aiyar reviews Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler, former China correspondent for The New Yorker. She discusses the tight focus of Hessler’s writing on...
by Samuel Wade | May 30, 2013
Wednesday was the 60th anniversary of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s historic climb to the top of Qomolangma, or Mount Everest, whose summit is neatly bisected by the border between China and Nepal. China Daily marked...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 29, 2013
In an Annie Hall moment at Foreign Policy, the inventor of the term “soft power” explains the shortcomings of Chinese and Russian efforts to cultivate it. From Joseph Nye: Even China’s soft-power triumphs, such...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 22, 2013
Beijing’s acting mayor has announced an array of new measures to combat air pollution in the city, following heavy smog that seeped hundreds of points off the scale this month. From Xinhua: The capital will take 180,000...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 4, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 3, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 3, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 14, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 6, 2012
As the 18th Party Congress fast approaches, Beijing residents have found their city under lock-down. Fruit knives are gone from store shelves. Ping pong balls are objects of suspicion. Security volunteers, distinguished by red...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 2, 2012
This week, online cartoonists satirize CCTV coverage of Hurricane Sandy, “new” invasive security...