“I don’t raise pigs” (我不养猪 wǒ bù yǎng zhū), a Hunan police station’s nonsensical comment on the death of a woman in their custody, is the latest incidence of “gobsmacking rhetoric” (léi yǔ 雷语) to go viral. “Gobsmacking rhetoric”...
Sun Lijun and Fu Zhenghua, formerly powerful ministers in China’s state security apparatus, have been sentenced to death with a two year reprieve for corruption and other crimes. Such sentences are typically commuted to life in...
Over two years after the National Security Law went into effect, government censorship continues to stifle free expression in Hong Kong. Authorities have recently taken measures to conceal from the public various books, films,...
Businesswoman Duan Weihong, who disappeared in 2017 after the arrest of politburo member Sun Zhengcai, resurfaced this past week to request that her ex-husband not publish an explosive memoir detailing elite corruption in China....
An investigation into Hangzhou’s Party chief by the CCP’s powerful internal anti-corruption watchdog may be tied to Alibaba’s ongoing political woes. Over the weekend, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection...
As several Chinese drugmakers prepare for a global roll-out of their COVID-19 vaccines, a number of newspapers have recently published investigations highlighting the murky world of pharmaceutical dealmaking in China, including...
Billionaire fugitive tycoon Guo Wengui and President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve...
CDT cannot verify any information presented by Guo Wengui. In another video message over the...
The Liaoning delegation to the National People’s Congress dissolved last week with the...
Flooding across central and southern China has killed more than 100 people and submerged countless...
Since becoming China’s top leader more than three years ago, President Xi Jinping has vowed...
Su Shulin, governor of Fujian Province and a former top oil executive, has become the first acting...
As a part of the U.S. government’s investigation into whether J.P. Morgan hired relatives of...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Following an investigation that has taken almost two years, former security chief and Politburo...
Ou Shaokun, a Guangzhou-based anti-corruption activist known for his work campaigning against...
Following the recent state media announcement that former security chief Zhou Yongkang will...
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