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...
A series of public opinion surveys about China have made headlines recently. This week, the Asia Society Policy Institute published the Global Public Opinion on China interactive database, which aggregates worldwide polling data...
This week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz completed a three-day visit to China. It was his second trip since becoming chancellor and his first since the German government produced its China strategy last July. His previous trip...
Information control and national security have long gone hand in hand for the Chinese government, especially under Xi Jinping. Last year was marked by a notable increase in government attempts to restrict information flows in...
At the close of 2023, CDT Chinese has compiled a series of year-end articles on a number of special topics, including sensitive words (part one and part two), censored articles, “rollover scenes,” and people of the year. This...
The E.U., U.K., U.S., and Canada on March 22 announced targeted sanctions against a handful of Chinese officials linked to human rights abuses in Xinjiang, and a week of angry retaliation against politicians, diplomats, and...
The European Union, U.S., U.K., and Canada announced sanctions on Monday against Chinese officials linked to human rights abuses in Xinjiang, in a move that was met with swift retaliation from Beijing. Responding to the...
Last week, we published Part One of an interview with Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Director of the Research...
The Chinese government’s growing influence over Europe is beginning to receive closer scrutiny,...
At The Washington Post, Center for Strategic and International Studies fellow Jonathan E. Hillman...
Chinese government influence over the political, media, and academic institutions in foreign...
The news that Apple will hand management of its Chinese users’ iCloud data over to a...
At Wired, Mara Hvistendahl explores the history and still unclear future of China’s nascent...
At Reuters, Benjamin Kang Lim reports that Cai Qi, a longtime ally of Xi Jinping, has been...
Over the last two years, the Chinese government has allowed private companies and city-level...
More than two months after China’s new Foreign NGO Management Law took effect, Chinese civil...
The State Council Information Office this week released the “National Human Rights Action...
At the Mercator Institute for China Studies, Nabil Alsabah examines the Cyberspace Administration...
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