Toys riffing on China’s hottest online idiom, “calling a rat a duck,” were yanked from online shelves this past week, a sign of the idiom’s continued political sensitivity. The tongue-in-cheek saying “calling a rat a duck”...
The following article addresses “central government policymakers” and poses ten direct questions about China’s long-running “zero-COVID” policy, which was in effect until a sudden policy shift on December 7, 2022. Its form and...
An investigation by China’s State Council has found that Henan officials covered up the death toll caused by severe flooding in July 2021. In August, local officials reported 302 confirmed deaths and 50 people still missing—the...
This week, CDT finished publishing a Chinese translation of “The Architecture of Repression,” a recent report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on the bureaucratic, legal, and rhetorical foundations of mass...
China’s economic planners have wrested control over climate policy from bureaucrats in the environmental department, potentially jeopardizing efforts to meet emissions pledges made by Xi Jinping before the United Nation’s...
On September 1, 2008, retired CCP cadre Liu Tiancheng published an essay on his personal blog about a trip to the southern part of Xinjiang decades earlier. The essay appeared as a special column in China News Digest (华夏文摘) the...
An undated photograph circulating on the internet in China appears to show a slide from a presentation at the Guangdong Province Party Committee School’s Institute of Public Administration, listing the “Ten Commandments...
On Twitter, Radio Free Asia Chinese has posted an ad shared by the 301 Hospital, a Beijing institution catering to PLA officers and top officials, for a project aimed at maintaining the health and and extending the longevity of...
Over the past several months, dozens of Chinese Twitter users within China have reportedly been...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
In 2013, former deputy director of Xinhua News Agency Lu Wei was appointed head of the State...
At People’s Daily Online, Luxiao Zou reports anger over the promotion of two judges who...
Following the release of new State Council regulations seeking to promote more ecologically...
Xinhua reports that over 160,000 “phantom staff”—former government employees who...
Amid Beijing’s “people’s war” against terrorism, The Globe and...
The Xi administration’s long running anti-corruption campaign, which finally netted former...
The BBC reports that an investigation in China has found that “more than 1,000 officials in...
A new survey from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences sheds light on tarnished public...
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