Minitrue: Follow the Official Line on Meng Extradition
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
drug trafficking
American Sentenced to Death with Reprieve in China
American citizen Mark Swidan has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in the drug...
Second Canadian Sentenced to Death for Drug Charges
Canadian citizen Fan Wei has been sentenced to death by a court in Guangdong for his alleged...
Canadian Sentenced to Death in Drug Smuggling Retrial
The Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in Liaoning province sentenced Canadian Robert Lloyd...
Public Hearing for Canadian’s Appeal of Drug Charges
Chinese state media reported Thursday that a Chinese court will this weekend hear a Canadian...
China Bans Synthetic Opioids Amid North American Crisis
A proliferating opioid overdose crisis in North America stemming from hyper-potent synthetic...
Chinese Meth Gangs Star in Philippines Drug Crisis
Since coming to power nearly six months ago, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has launched a...
North Korea Funnels Crystal Meth Into China
Tania Branigan at The Guardian reports that a North Korean professor has been arrested for...
Why Mexican Drug-Traffickers Smuggle Iron Ore to China
The Economist explains why smuggling iron ore to China has become a popular activity for Mexican...
Massive Drug Bust Nets 3 Tons of Methamphetamine
A massive police raid in Boshe Village in Lufeng City, Guangdong uncovered three tons of...
The Great K-Hole of China
While not yet as popular or widespread as heroin, or as addictive as meth, ketamine use is...
“Happy Hour” for Heroin in China
Drug traffickers in the Golden Triangle are struggling to keep up with soaring demand in China,...
The Other China Boom
Australia’s ABC News’ Foreign Correspondent show has produced an investigative report...
CCTV Pre-Execution Spectacle Polarizes Viewers
Drug lord Naw Kham and three other foreigners were executed in Kunming on Friday for the 2011 killings of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River. State broadcaster CCTV aired the prisoners’ final hours, together with...
China Considered Drone Strike Against Drug Lord
China mulled the use of drone-delivered explosives to kill a wanted drug lord, who was later captured and sentenced to death for the murder of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong river in 2011. The plan was revealed in a...
Getting Meth in China
Currently traveling in China, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes that while authorities are quick to crack down on political speech online, it is not difficult to by drugs, guns or prostitutes via the Internet:...
China Sentences Four to Death in Mekong Murder
CDT previously reported on the murder of Chinese sailors on the Mekong River and on the following investigation. Chinese state media reports the principal suspect and three others in the attack have been sentenced to death, from...
How One Policeman Got Burned
In March, Wen Jiabao told a State Council conference that corruption is “the most crucial threat” to Party rule; this month, Murong Xuecun wrote in The New York Times that because of it, “no roads are...
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