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...
A Party organization’s flippant invocation of “World War III” using video game terms went viral over the weekend, thrilling some nationalists but perturbing other Chinese netizens. The video was later removed from Bilibili and...
As the one-year anniversary of the lifting of China’s “zero-COVID” policy approaches, residents in many provinces in China have been dismayed and alarmed by the apparent return of mobile phone app-based health codes. Screenshots...
Surveillance in Chinese cities is ubiquitous, with highly visible security cameras trained on most every intersection, public space, and building, but over the past decade, it has been seeping into the countryside as well. In an...
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,...
With many in China still unconvinced that local and national governments did all they could, based on available information, to respond to and educate the public about the novel coronavirus, some are looking for a more suitable...
Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang was first disciplined for "spreading rumors" about the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, then used as a deterrent example by state media along with seven others. He was then rehabilitated and...
China’s emerging Social Credit System has attracted growing media attention as a centerpiece...
Family planning workers in Gong’an County, Hubei Province occupied the front steps of the...
Following a directive on Tuesday banning Chinese journalists from traveling to the site of Monday...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In a new series of videos, That’s Beijing traces the proposed route of Beijing’s 900...
The Wall Street Journal reports that the host of an online news program was recently cut off while...
Following last November’s adjustment to China’s one-child policy, Sutirtho Patranobis...
Reuters reports that a man surnamed Zhou has been detained for causing panic with a graphic rumor...
After president Xi Jinping told farmers in Hubei that the Chinese “must rely on ourselves...
Reuters reports that thousands of fish have been found dead in a river outside of Wuhan after a...
An attempt to capitalize on widespread outrage at chengguan urban management staff was foiled by the continuing heat wave on Saturday, when a supposedly dead “beating victim” had to get up for a drink of water. From...
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
