Netizen Voices: As Sino-Japanese Tensions Rise, “Tourism is Treated like a Chamberpot, a Disposable Tool”
The diplomatic crisis between China and Japan continues to intensify, following Japanese Prime...
Netizen Voices
Netizen Voices: “Stop Complaining, Hu Xijin. You Played a Part in This.”
Two posts from nationalist pundit and former Global Times Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin criticizing what he describes as a “collective silence” on Chinese social media have sparked intense discussion on Chinese and overseas websites....
Netizen Voices: Backlash Against Supposed Beauty of Golden Week Traffic Jams
State media hailed the mass travel over this month’s "Super Golden Week" holiday as a sign of profound economic vigor. Xinhua, for example, reported that the "travel boom […] demonstrated the country’s...
Netizen Voices on New Childcare Subsidies: “Are They Going to Refund All the Fines Paid by People Who Exceeded Childbirth Quotas Back in the Day?”
In an effort to combat falling birthrates, China’s central government has announced a plan to provide families with annual cash subsidies of 3,600 yuan per child under the age of three. Ninety percent of the funding will...
Netizen Voices: Never-Ending Screenings of “Ne Zha 2” Are “Off the Rails”
The Chinese animated film "Ne Zha 2" has continued its record-breaking run, grossing over $2 billion worldwide and remaining on China’s top-five box-office list over 110 days after its release. But the film’s success...
Netizen Voices: “If We’re Winning This Much After Losing the U.S. Market, Imagine How Much We’d Win if We Lost All of Them.”
Amid signs that U.S. tariffs are starting to bite into China’s exports, the country’s foreign ministry issued a defiant vow not to "kneel" on Wednesday, declaring: "Bowing to a bully is like drinking...
Netizens Chastise Chinese State Media for “Mocking Your Own People” in Trade War Responses
The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war last week was to censor online commentary about the scale of tariffs. Now, it has responded with targeted messaging intended to...
Hostile Weibo Reactions to Filmmaker Huo Meng’s Berlin Film Fest Win: “Chinese Cinema Has Never Been As Conflicted As It Is Today”
While Weibo and other Chinese social media platforms continue to generate congratulatory content about the animated box-office smash “Ne Zha 2,” the reception for "Living the Land," a moving and realistic film about...
WeChat Users React to Trump-Zelenskyy Oval Office Meeting: “Don’t You Have Any Respect for His Country or His People?”
The fallout from Friday’s heated Oval Office meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and today’s announcement that the U.S. would pause aid to Ukraine continues to reverberate...
Netizen Voices on Mass Censorship of Beijing’s $6.5 Million Annual Support for Olympian Eileen Gu: “Why Are They So Afraid the Taxpayers Will Find Out?”
Controversy over Beijing municipal government allocating 47 million yuan (nearly $6.5 million U.S.) to fund the training of Eileen Gu, the Chinese-American Olympic freestyle skier, has triggered a wave of cross-platform...
Netizen Voices on TikTok “Refugees”: “We All Know This Isn’t Going to End Well, so Let’s Enjoy This ‘Global-village Moment’ While We Can”
As the U.S. Supreme Court voted to uphold a law forcing either the sale or ban of ByteDance-owned TikTok, “TikTok refugees” continued flocking to the Chinese-language app Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote. The influx of new...
Netizens Call for Attention to Prisoners in Southeast Asia Scam Operations
The high-profile kidnapping and rescue of 31-year-old actor Wang Xing from a telecom-scam compound on the border of Myanmar and Thailand has incited heated discussion on the Chinese internet. Wang was found last week, just two...
CCTV Hides Comments on Economic Data. “Open the Comments, Let Us Sing its Praises, Too!”
CDT’s year-end roundups of memorable quotes and censored terms have both highlighted public frustration with the state of the economy and the government’s efforts to enforce positive perceptions of it. The trend...
Two Years After Zero-COVID, A Rare White Paper Remembrance
A WeChat essay detailing the day that China’s “zero-COVID” policy ended has become a rare space for public remembrance of the 2022 White Paper Movement. Originally published as part of a 13-part series on the lockdowns, the...
Netizen Voices: “The ‘Lords’ Stay Safe, As Always” After Third Mass-Casualty Attack
Less than a week after a shocking “Xianzhong” car attack that left 35 dead in Zhuhai, a recent graduate of a Jiangsu technical school stabbed eight people on the campus to death. On Tuesday, a man rammed elementary school...
Netizen Voices on Shenzhen Stabbing: “People Care More About Political Posturing, Nationality, History, and Hatred Than They Do About Human Life”
Wednesday’s fatal stabbing of a Japanese fifth-grader as he walked to his school in the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen—just months after a similar fatal stabbing at a Japanese school bus-stop in Suzhou—has prompted an...
Netizen Voices: Chinese Football Again In Turmoil Over Corruption and “Humiliating” Defeats
Despite a laudable performance in other sports at this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, China continues to flail in its footballing ambitions. Last Thursday, the men’s national team lost 7-0 to rival Japan in the third...
CCTV Broadcast Falls Silent During Queer Scenes in Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony
CCTV commentators covering the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics fell silent during a skit hinting at a ménage à trois, a scene inspired by the great French writer Victor Hugo’s line, “The freedom to love is no less...
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