In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020...
In 2024, China’s trade volume with partner countries in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) grew by 6.4 percent year-on-year, accounting for over half of China’s total trade volume for the first time. At the start of 2025, over a...
At Sinopsis, Rachel Lee examines CCP influence operations in Malaysia’s eastern state of Sabah, which have sought to capitalize on the local influence of diasporic Chinese in business, politics, and education. From the...
One significant dimension of the Chinese government’s transnational repression against Uyghurs is deportations. Recent longform pieces have detailed the journeys of Uyghurs who managed to escape Xinjiang and flee abroad, only to...
Prague-based Sinopsis has published a new investigation by Kuek Ser Kuang Keng, Chan Wei See, and Wong Kai Hui into the propagation of pro-Russian narratives about the invasion of Ukraine through Chinese...
New reports suggest that China has dramatically curtailed lending towards the Belt and Road Initiative, Xi Jinping’s flagship global infrastructure and trade program. First proposed in 2013, the BRI is a trillion-dollar...
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,...
In a whiplash sequence of events, Brazilian regulators suspended and then resumed trials of a Chinese-developed coronavirus vaccine after the sudden death of a trial participant, later discovered to be a suicide. Vaccines...
Beijing is currently holding a forum for its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which has been beset...
Xi Jinping’s massively ambitious infrastructure investment plan, the Belt and Road Initiative...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The Wall Street Journal has discovered that in 2016, China offered Malaysia bailouts and...
The Chinese government’s continued denial of the purpose of extralegal re-education camps that are...
Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, a trillion dollar-plus, 65-nation trade and...
This week, 45 Taiwanese citizens were deported from Kenya to China after several were acquitted on...
In the Atlantic, Howard W. French offers an in-depth analysis of China’s recent efforts to...
Yesterday, the remains of some of the victims the Malaysia Airlines flight shot down over eastern...
As the world continues to wait for a definitive explanation of who bears responsibility for the...
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