Political turmoil in Bangladesh reached a climax this month as a student-led protest movement ousted Sheikh Hasina from her 15-year tenure as prime minister. The movement began with peaceful protests against a quota system for...
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...
In a whiplash sequence of events, Brazilian regulators suspended and then resumed trials of a Chinese-developed coronavirus vaccine after the sudden death of a trial participant, later discovered to be a suicide. Vaccines...
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...
Freedom House released its annual “Freedom on the Net” report on Thursday with the...
Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, a trillion dollar-plus, 65-nation trade and...
An exhibit at the Dhaka Art Summit which featured the writings of five Tibetans who self-immolated...
At The Wall Street Journal, Robert Wall and Doug Cameron report that China has surpassed Germany...
Where Are Chinese Internet Police Being Trained? This inetcop.com.cn website has the answer. The following is from the Xiamen Meiah Pico IT CO., Ltd. website, translated by CDT’s Lucy Lin: On July 30, 2004, the Ministry of...
From the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief, via Asia Media: In keeping with its economic expansion, China has deepened its strategic influence in the region, especially with India’s immediate neighbors – Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Beijing has long kept a close strategic partnership with Islamabad, but its overtures to the remaining countries were hobbled […]
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