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,...
A new report from Buzzfeed News identifies 268 new purpose-built detention sites across Xinjiang, detected by cross-referencing areas obscured on Baidu Maps’ satellite view with images from sources not subject to Chinese...
CDT would like to present an interactive map as part of our series on China’s “Sharp Eyes” rural surveillance program. This map, a work in progress that will be updated in the coming months, displays the sites...
Reuters’ Natalie Thomas and Michael Martina report that central authorities will be...
The Los Angeles Times’ Julie Makinen reports apparent growth in the seizure of books and...
China has unveiled a new map of the country that has been vertically extended to...
Raissa Robles at the South China Morning Post reports on a judge’s analysis of the...
Channel News Asia reports on Beijing’s allegations that the multinational Coca-Cola Company has been performing illegal mapping in China: US soft drinks giant Coca-Cola is “cooperating fully” with Chinese...
One of the central grievances behind recent unrest in Tibet is the marginalization of Tibetan language. While Tibetan is not among the 40% of China’s minority languages already threatened with extinction, policies such as...
China delivered a rousing jolt to its various border disputes last week with the introduction of a controversial new passport design. Visa pages in the passports incorporate a map—shown in an annotated photograph at The...
The Apple Maps that replaced Google’s in the new iOS 6 for iPhone and iPad have attracted widespread mockery. Quirks in the maps’ representation of China include a duplicate set of Diaoyu Islands and a missing...
Alongside promised features for Chinese users such as enhanced language support and integration with Baidu, Youku, Tudou and Sina Weibo, Apple’s new iOS 6 has brought an unexpected solution to the thorny dispute over the...
Months after cracking down on global online mapping services, the Chinese government has announced its own service to compete with Google Maps and other such sites. From BBC: The web-based service gives people access to...
The Library of Congress is currently displaying a map of the world created by Matteo Ricci in 1602 for the Chinese emperor Wanli: “In olden days, nobody had ever known that there were such places as North and South America...
Ellen Zhu at the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report writes about a collaborative Google Maps project to document China’s heavily polluted areas: “My goal is to get as many people working on the map as...
Chinese reporter Deng Fei and Doubleaf have Google Mapped China’s cancer villages. A screenshot is below. See the Google Map here. The map also provides news report details on each of the listed villages. The following is...
From AFP: China has launched an investigation into online mapping services by Internet giants including Google and Sohu in an effort to protect state secrets and territorial integrity, state press said. According to Min Yiren,...
From AFP: The Chinese government will clamp down on mapping websites and other online geographical information that it fears might undermine national security, state media reported Thursday. Eight government agencies, including...
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