Around 5:00 p.m. local time on Friday, an explosion damaged an office building of the Chinese consulate in Mandalay, the second-largest city in Myanmar. No casualties were reported, but the Chinese government condemned the...
Leaders of southeast Asian countries gathered in Laos this week for the annual ASEAN summit and the concurrent East Asia Summit attended by major global partners. China, represented by Premier Li Qiang, hailed the “substantial...
More than three years after the military’s coup d’état, Myanmar remains engulfed in instability and civil war. China has more leverage in Myanmar than any other foreign power, and the ongoing crisis along the China-Myanmar...
Last week, Weibo censors took down a post by a popular food blogger describing how all her bank accounts were frozen due to a local police department’s arbitrary and unprofessional “anti-fraud” case work. Her Kafka-esque account...
The Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is named after an unassuming alpaca who galumphed past the censors in 2009 to become a Chinese internet sensation. In the long decade since, the Lexicon has tracked online resistance discourse in 365...
Disinformation linking Myanmar’s recent coup d’état to Chinese influence has inspired anti-China protests in the capital, Yangon. Protesters’ suspicions were inflamed by a meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and...
New reports suggest that China has dramatically curtailed lending towards the Belt and Road Initiative, Xi Jinping’s flagship global infrastructure and trade program. First proposed in 2013, the BRI is a trillion-dollar...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
Al Jazeera reports that Chinese authorities have turned back thousands of Myanmar refugees fleeing...
As Southeast Asian countries continue to face a severe drought amid an extreme El Niño event,...
Rights lawyer Wang Yu and her husband, activist Bao Longjun, have both been detained in...
On October 9, 16-year-old Bao Zhuoxuan, son of rights lawyer Wang Yu and legal activist Bao...
On July 9, rights lawyer Wang Yu was detained from her home in Beijing, and her 16-year-old son...
In Myanmar, 155 Chinese citizens have been sentenced—all but two to life—for illegal logging....
On Wednesday, Myanmar’s opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi...
Last week, The Economist reported on conflict between government troops and local rebels...
At The Wall Street Journal, Robert Wall and Doug Cameron report that China has surpassed Germany...
Bloomberg’s John Boudreau reports calls within Vietnam’s Communist Party for greater...
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