On the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, people around the world commemorated with vigils and recollections, while Chinese authorities massively censored references to the incident in the mainland and Hong Kong. Some...
February 5 of this year marked the 27th anniversary of the Ghulja Massacre. On that day in 1997, hundreds of people gathered in Ghulja, a county-level city in northwest Xinjiang (also known as Yining county, in Chinese), to...
China’s Ministry of Public Security has initiated a new campaign against online rumors following Xi Jinping’s call for a “security barrier” around the Chinese internet. At The South China Morning Post, Kawala Xie reported on the...
Recent leadership changes in China’s peripheral regions signal the government’s continuing focus on an aggressive, heavily securitized approach to stability maintenance. The newest CCP cadre inserted into a prominent role is...
Following Beijing’s tradition of sentencing high-profile activists, rights lawyers, and dissidents during the week between Christmas and the New Year in an effort to minimize international media attention, more than 12...
In recent months, the collapse of China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) loan industry has eradicated the life...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Responding to rising incidents of violence in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China, authorities in 2014...
Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on civil society and parallel drive to reinforce ideological...
As Chinese authorities ramp up efforts to create an unprecedented digital police state in...
Mass disappearances are taking place in Xinjiang as part of an intensive effort spearheaded by...
Following an apartment block fire that left 19 dead and eight injured in Beijing this week—found...
With traditional and online media controls on overdrive and state media issuing a...
Authorities in Xinjiang have stepped up their efforts to suppress the Islamic identity of the...
Tom Phillips at The Guardian reports that Xinjiang is experiencing an unprecedented security surge...
The State Council Information Office this week released the “National Human Rights Action...
Commenting on the Xi administration’s ongoing crackdown on rights activism and legal...
Labor unrest has increased throughout China as the economy continues to grow at its slowest rate...
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