The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. Currently many foreign media are...
Several recently released reports have shed new light on China’s international efforts to bolster its image and manipulate public opinion, through both traditional and social media. Two reports were released this week, one...
The Committee to Protect Journalists has released its annual global survey of imprisoned journalists, and found that for the second year in a row, China tops the list with 47 in prison. From the report introduction by Elana...
Beijing-based publisher and film producer Geng Xiaonan was detained along with her husband and business partner Qin Chen on September 9 for suspected "illegal business operations." Geng had been an outspoken advocate...
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,...
Following threatening behavior from Chinese security offices, two Australian journalists have left China. Bill Birtles of Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Michael Smith of The Australian Financial Review both received...
Hong Kong’s government announced on Friday that September’s Legislative Council elections would be postponed for one year, confirming earlier reports and signals from establishment figures. The move was ostensibly...
A series of escalating blows between China and the U.S. continued on Tuesday with Chinese measures including a sweeping revocation of press credentials for American journalists for three major U.S. newspapers: The New York...
On Thursday, Canada’s National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians published a heavily redacted version of its annual report, originally submitted to the government last August. The document consists of...
Journalist Chun Han Wong, a Singapore national who has reported for the Wall Street Journal in...
The letter above was sent this week to more than 30 international news organizations including...
China’s already restrictive internet censorship tightened further ahead of this week’s...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
Liu Feiyue, founder of online rights monitor msguancha.com, has been sentenced to five years in...
The Wall Street Journal reports that the United States Justice Department in recent weeks ordered...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s news website and mobile apps have been...
Last week, we published Part One of an interview with Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Director of the Research...
When Liang Xiangyi’s vigorous eye-roll at a fellow reporter’s rambling, obsequious,...
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