The Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is named after an unassuming alpaca who galumphed past the censors in 2009 to become a Chinese internet sensation. In the long decade since, the Lexicon has tracked online resistance discourse in 365...
Disinformation linking Myanmar’s recent coup d’état to Chinese influence has inspired anti-China protests in the capital, Yangon. Protesters’ suspicions were inflamed by a meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and...
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,...
Al Jazeera reports that Chinese authorities have turned back thousands of Myanmar refugees fleeing...
As Southeast Asian countries continue to face a severe drought amid an extreme El Niño event,...
Rights lawyer Wang Yu and her husband, activist Bao Longjun, have both been detained in...
On October 9, 16-year-old Bao Zhuoxuan, son of rights lawyer Wang Yu and legal activist Bao...
On July 9, rights lawyer Wang Yu was detained from her home in Beijing, and her 16-year-old son...
In Myanmar, 155 Chinese citizens have been sentenced—all but two to life—for illegal logging....
On Wednesday, Myanmar’s opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi...
Last week, The Economist reported on conflict between government troops and local rebels...
At The Wall Street Journal, Robert Wall and Doug Cameron report that China has surpassed Germany...
Bloomberg’s John Boudreau reports calls within Vietnam’s Communist Party for greater...
According to a state media report, China plans to construct two railway lines in Tibet that will...
While China grapples with the economic and demographic consequences of its family planning...
While heavily-disputed and sometimes illegal Chinese extraction projects in Myanmar contribute to...
Hereward Holland of National Geographic investigates illegal logging in Myanmar, largely...
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