Since his ascension to the top of the Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has shown little tolerance for “historical nihilism,” a catch-all term for critical appraisals of the Party’s rise and rule. The Party made a concerted push to...
A Hangzhou court has found a journalist guilty of defamation for accusing a senior colleague of sexually assaulting her in 2009, dealing the nation’s #MeToo movement a courtroom defeat. In 2018, He Qian alleged that Deng Fei...
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,...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Cyberspace Administration: Hello everyone, below you will find a summary of the expanded security and...
Recent months have seen increasingly sharp reprisals against prominent critics of Xi Jinping’s leadership. Law professor Xu Zhangrun was fired by Tsinghua University in mid-July after a brief detention and his earlier...
The New York Times’ Chris Buckley reports on a new campaign against corruption and disloyalty in China’s public security machinery: Officials in China’s law-and-order apparatus have been ordered to “drive the blade...
Just as the U.S. announced its “Clean Network” initiative and set a deadline for the video-sharing app TikTok to be bought by an American company or banned from the country, images, and screenshots have been...
On Monday, law professor Xu Zhangrun was suspended from teaching and other roles at Tsinghua...
At The Financial Times, Christian Shepherd reports the removal from teaching duties of Tsinghua...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
The Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced on Tuesday that former...
The Party is making continued efforts to consolidate its position above the law and reiterate...
Rights lawyer Yu Wensheng was detained on Friday while walking his son to school, The...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
Shuanggui, or “dual designation,” is an opaque and reportedly brutal system of secret...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Fugitive Chinese property tycoon and whistleblower Guo Wengui has applied for asylum in the United...
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