Sensitive Words: “Fatty” Kim Jong Un Visits Beijing
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Mar 28, 2018
Sensitive Words highlights keywords that are blocked from Sina Weibo search results. CDT...
May 4, 2017
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Nov 10, 2016
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Nov 12, 2015
At Reuters, Michelle Nichols reports the continuation of China’s longstanding practice of...
Dec 22, 2014
While members of the Chinese public have been questioning Beijing’s alliance with North...
Oct 17, 2014
As the protest movement in Hong Kong grinds on, police this week dismantled bamboo barricades and...
Oct 15, 2014
Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese...
Oct 10, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Feb 18, 2014
After a year-long investigation, a United Nations panel handed a report to the UN Human Rights...
Jan 29, 2014
Last week, NK News reported that the number of Chinese work visas granted to North Koreans last...
Jan 13, 2014
In an op-ed at The New York Times, Brookings’ Jonathan Pollack describes Jang...
Apr 8, 2013
For his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab takes on China’s relationship with North Korea. The two countries are shown in bed together, but Kim Jong-un’s setting of his nuclear...
Feb 12, 2013
North Korea detonated a third nuclear weapon in an underground test on Tuesday, defying Chinese calls for restraint and bringing swift condemnation from the U.N. and national governments. From Justin McCurry and Tania Branigan...
Jan 27, 2013
CDT previously reported on the recent “Directive From the Ministry of Truth” that sent out instructions to Chinese journalists to stop reporting on the personal lives of North Korean leaders, with a particular emphasis on Kim...
Jan 23, 2013
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by central government authorities, have...
Dec 2, 2012
After North Korea’s failed rocket launch earlier this year and China’s subsequent backing of a UN statement calling for harsher consequences if another launch is attempted, the New York Times reports North Korea...
Nov 29, 2012
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies...
Nov 28, 2012
Yesterday, the state-run People’s Daily Online ran the story Kim Jong-un Named The Onion’s...