After a decades-long infrastructure spending spree, many of China’s local governments now find themselves saddled with unsustainable levels of debt and a surplus of vastly ambitious but often underutilized infrastructure...
In the midst of a troubled economy and stock market rout, a People’s Daily Online article trumpeting a supposed nationwide “air of optimism” drew so many derisive comments last week that its related hashtag was censored on...
A 2016 People’s Daily article predicting that China would enter the club of “high-income” nations by 2024 was recently deleted from People’s Daily Online. The deletion was likely due to the article being “maliciously reposted”...
China’s housing market woes continue, with recent data showing tumbling residential sales among developers and a decline in housing prices across 70 large and medium-sized cities. Adding to the complexity are concerns about...
Lynette Ong, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, joins CDT to discuss her new book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. In Outsourcing Repression, Ong investigates the...
Over the past few weeks, tens of thousands of Chinese homebuyers have banded together and refused to continue paying mortgages on unfinished homes. Homebuyers in China frequently purchase “pre-sale” homes long before developers...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
In an interview with Ian Johnson at The New York Times, political scientist Luigi Tomba of...
At The New York Times, Ian Johnson talks to Luigi Tomba of the Australian National University...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Why would a cheeky cartoon about the real estate market be deleted from all domestic Chinese...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
As of December 17, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
Following a rebound in the housing market, authorities in Beijing have announced its plans to...
Jeremy Blum at South China Morning Post reports that Chen Zhouxi, a Zhejiang journalist, received...
Government efforts to urbanize China's population by building new towns are failing due to a lack of local jobs; one of the many newly constructed towns, Tieling, remains empty because residents cannot find employment: Urban...
AP reports that Wu Hongfei, singer for the Beijing-based rock outfit Happy Avenue (幸福大街), has been detained for comments that she posted on her Weibo account: Police have detained an activist singer who wrote that she wanted to...
Xinhua reports that a top auditor in China found that 5.8 billion yuan (US$943 million) for low-income housing had been embezzled in the past year: The goal of the project construction was reached as governmentshave allocated...
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