When the management of a shopping mall in Nanjing decided to post some festive New Year’s decorations, little did they expect that the red and white floral and circular designs would make them the target of an ultranationalist...
2022 is off to a bad start for Hong Kong’s free press. The Cantonese Citizen News, one of the few prominent independent news outlets still standing in Hong Kong, was the latest to perish, announcing its dissolution on Sunday...
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,...
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,...
As protesters in Hong Kong passed China’s 65th National Day on the streets, Chinese state...
High Peaks Pure Earth has recently translated posts from Tibetan blogger and activist Woeser on...
Al Jazeera reports on a Chinese flag installed in a mosque in Aksu, western Xinjiang Autonomous...
Since the the immense tragedy caused by the earthquake last week, many Chinese citizens have urged the government to lower the national flag to half-mast and suspend Olympic torch relay celebrations. Now these voices are being...
Remember last year’s “Nail House” story ( pictures) ? Here is an interesting variation on the theme. In the following photo, published with a report from Xinhua dated January 5, 2008, nearly 200 Chinese flags hang from apartment buildings in a housing complex in Xi’an’s Stele Forest district that is being demolished. In December, according […]
From AP, via SignOnSanDiego: A man who burned a school’s Chinese flag after a fight with students there has been jailed for six months for “insulting the national flag,” a news report said Sunday. The man, identified only by his surname Zhao, got into a fight with two students at a school in Datong County […]
The Chinese National Flag is a red flag with five yellow stars. In the official interpretation, the design uses red as its background (symbolizing the blood of the soldiers who were lost in wars) and bright yellow for its stars....
From The Letter from China blog: Beijing delegation officials seized the Republic of China flags carried by Taiwan’s teenage athletes at International Children’s Games, TVBS reports. Taiwanese medal winners draped the blue-sky-with-a-white-sun national flag around their shoulders and the act provoked the Beijing team. “Do you have to use force?” asked Taipei delegation leader, deputy […]
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