A recent question posted to the Q&A site Zhihu may have been intended to elicit praise about China’s state of political affairs, but has instead become the latest telling example of the pessimistic political mood in...
CDT Chinese editors have compiled a series of year-end articles on special topics such as 2023’s most sensitive and oft-censored words (parts one and two), most notable reports, outstanding people of the year (stand-up...
Censors took down a Zhihu question-and-answer that asked, “Why don’t young people watch Xinwen Lianbo anymore?” Xinwen Lianbo, China Central Television’s flagship evening news program since 1978, is among the most watched...
China’s Ministry of Public Security has initiated a new campaign against online rumors following Xi Jinping’s call for a “security barrier” around the Chinese internet. At The South China Morning Post, Kawala Xie reported on the...
The accounts of Health Insights (@八点健闻), a health and science-oriented digital news outlet, have been suspended across all Chinese social media platforms, notably WeChat and Weibo. Since coming online in 2019, the outlet had...
In 2013, Xi Jinping introduced the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and called on state media to “tell China’s story well.” Almost ten years later, the CCP’s external propaganda apparatus is struggling to present a positive image...
The Financial Times’ Edward White reports on plans to ban Chinese-owned video streaming...
This week censorship trackers GreatFire.org launched a new search site, AppleCensorship.com, to...
At Caixin, Chen Na reports on new regulations from the Cyberspace Administration of China, the...
China Media Project’s David Bandurski offers a special Journalists’ Day greeting: As China marked...
At the University of Nottingham’s China Policy Institute Blog, Vivien Marsh comments on...
The South China Morning Post reports that the newly launched political news website ThePaper.cn...
At the China Media Project, David Bandurski laments the China Central Propaganda...
President Xi Jinping’s unannounced visit to Beijing’s Qingfeng Steamed Bun Restaurant...
Suggestions that Associated Press offices were compromised by hackers in Operation Shady Rat have prompted fears that potentially vulnerable sources may be deterred from coming forward in future. From the South China Morning...
Via Openflows Networks, from the Japan Times: “A short while ago, when I was in Beijing, I wanted to keep up with some political development in Hong Kong. I turned on my computer and went to the Asia-Pacific page of the BBC’s Web site. Or at least I tried to; I had forgotten that the […]
From China National News, these are highlights on Chinese Newspaper today.
From People’s Daily Online: “China’s Xinhua News Agency has selected the top 10 news stories in China in 2004.”
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