China’s media elites are searching for new ways to tell China’s story abroad, and local researchers have taken note. Last week, the National Bureau of Asian Research, a U.S.-based think tank, released a report titled “Political...
On Monday, March 21, 2022, China Eastern Airline Flight 5735 crashed in Guangxi, killing all 132 people on board. The Guangzhou-bound plane departed from Kunming in the early afternoon, flew normally for approximately an hour,...
China’s soft power initiatives are often derided by Western observers as ineffective or counterproductive. Over a hundred Confucius Institutes in the U.S. and Europe have been targeted as arms of the Chinese state and forced to...
One of China’s premier investigative reporting outlets, Caixin, has been removed from the Cyberspace Administration of China’s (CAC) latest media “whitelist.” The whitelist governs how news is shared across the Chinese internet:...
These are trying times for imaginary friends, and for the media outlets who rely on them for timely, conveniently “on-message” quotes. A July 24 Facebook post by purported Swiss biologist Wilson Edwards cast doubt on the WHO...
The CDT Censorship Digest is a monthly round-up of censored speech, propaganda developments, and rights defense in China. We have selected and adapted the most relevant and interesting stories for our English readers. We...
China’s Foreign Ministry announced a series of retaliatory measures against U.S. media organizations and defense corporations on Monday. This is the latest move in a protracted tit-for-tat battle with the Trump administration...
Recent protests in Hong Kong against proposed extradition rules that threatened further erosion of...
Kong Linlin, a London-based reporter with Chinese state broadcaster’s English-language China...
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
Three articles last week explored the extent of Party influence over different sections of Chinese...
Global Times, a tabloid subsidiary of the Party mouthpiece People’s Daily, has won a relatively...
The Chinese government is carrying out an unprecedented crackdown on the media under President Xi...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Reuters’ Megha Rajagopalan reports the intensification of an investigation into alleged...
At Monday’s meeting with members of the Leading Group for Overall Reform, Xi Jinping...
The announcement of a disciplinary investigation into Zhou Yongkang on Tuesday has unleashed a...
At the China Media Project, Chang Ping examines the implications of the case of Wei Yinin, the...
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