Minitrue Plus Five: March 10, 2020 – Tibet Independence, COVID Rent Relief, Whistleblower, Epidemic Transmission and Treatments
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
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Minitrue Plus Five: March 7, 2020 – TV Dramas, Taiwan Elections, Gratitude Education, Diamond Princess, Hotel Collapse
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
Minitrue Plus Five: February 27, 2020 – Epidemic Control, Aid, Child Patients, A Woman Named Huang
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...
Minitrue Plus Five: February 21, 2020 – “Four Avoidances,” Coronavirus in Prisons, Malaysia Travel Restrictions, Anbang Insurance Co.
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...
Minitrue Plus Five: February 9-10, 2020 – Epidemic Controversies, Hong Kong Donations
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...
Minitrue Plus Five: February 7, 2020 – Death of Li Wenliang, Lantern Festival, Foreign Support, Cultural Education
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...
Minitrue Plus Five: January 27, 2020 – Novel Coronavirus
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...
Essayists Criticize Vapid New Year’s Tributes From Southern Weekly, Other News Outlets
As we enter 2025, Chinese media outlets have continued the tradition of publishing op-ed pieces that pay tribute to the past year. But this year’s outpouring of vague and even confusing New Year’s pieces—most of which do not...
Minitrue Plus Five: January 2, 2020 – Mystery Pneumonia and U.S. Trade
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...
CDT 2024 Year-End Roundup: Quotes of the Year (Part 1)
As 2024 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding quotes, reports, podcasts and...
Xi Jinping Demands More Control After Zhuhai Attack
A veil of silence has fallen around the car ramming attack that killed 35 and injured 43 in Zhuhai, Guangdong, this Monday. The shocking attack—the most deadly “Xianzhong” incident in a year marked by them—has become a highly...
Translation: Essays by Two Reporters on the Rewards and Pitfalls of Investigative Journalism in China
Despite this year’s disappointing, propagandistic line-up of winners for the 34th China Journalism Award, some Chinese investigative journalists continue to ply their trade with dogged reporting, commitment to keeping the...
Translation: Anodyne Winners of 34th China Journalism Awards Prompt Declaration That “News is Dead”
On the eve of “Journalists’ Day” on November 8, the All-China Journalists Association announced the winners of the two most prestigious national prizes for reportage: the China Journalism Award and the Changjiang Taofen Award. A...
Life and Media Under the Taliban: A View from China
The latest draconian decree issued by the Taliban on Monday was a gradual media ban on all images of living things in news coverage. Repression of the media and civil rights may be even harsher under the Taliban than under the...
Translation: After Guangzhou School Stabbing, “Censorship Won’t Make Us Feel Safe”
An October 8 stabbing outside an elementary school in Guangzhou, in which two nine-year-old students and an adult woman were injured, has drawn renewed attention to the phenomenon of indiscriminate knife attacks by people...
Ongoing Deletion of Investigative Reports on Corpse-Trafficking Scandal
The Chinese public has been transfixed and outraged by news of a decade-long scheme involving the theft and illegal sale of thousands of corpses for use as bone-graft raw material in dental procedures. A document leaked last...
Mass Censorship of National Corpse Trafficking Scandal
The reported theft and illegal sale of thousands of human corpses for use as raw material in bone graft procedures has shocked the Chinese public and sparked a breathtaking wave of censorship online. Last Thursday, a Beijing...
Wall Street Journal Fires Journalist Elected as Chair of HK Press Freedom Group
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Selina Cheng announced that she was fired after refusing her supervisor’s request to withdraw from the election for chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association...
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