A WeChat essay on the “sore need” for a continuation of the May Fourth Movement’s legacy of “resistance against the powers that be,” published on the eve of the movement’s 104th anniversary, was taken down by censors. The essay,...
Heavy fighting between rival military groups in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum has put local and foreign civilians in peril. Over the past week, Chinese, American, and other governments implemented evacuation plans to escort their...
On Sunday, Hong Kong’s recently reorganized Electoral Committee selected John Lee to be the next Chief Executive of Hong Kong, a position that he will take over from current Chief Executive Carrie Lam on July 1, the 25th...
On Tuesday, the Chinese men’s national soccer team suffered a heavy 3-1 loss to rivals Vietnam in the third and final round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which effectively knocked China out of the...
Sunday’s election for Hong Kong’s legislative council yielded the lowest turnout in the history of the city’s legislative elections under both Chinese and British rule. In this “patriots only” election—featuring only candidates...
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...
After weeks of wall-to-wall advertising, the Hong Kong government celebrated its newly created “National Security Education Day” on Thursday. The New York Times’ Vivian Wang described how the day unfolded:...
The Hong Kong Government has introduced comprehensive guidelines to securitize the city’s schools in line with the National Security Law, in a move aimed at quashing political dissent in the education system and...
During a video-conference call with Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, Xi Jinping announced that “Hong Kong must always be governed by patriots.” Xi’s demand for “patriotic” politicians mirrored mainland calls that Hong...
On February 17, the Communist Youth League of China opened and promoted the official Weibo account @JiangShanjiaoYuongQiman (@江山娇与红旗漫Official), introducing netizens to two newly-created anime characters: The post...
Since late July, Beijing has worked to promote its own counternarrative against protesters in Hong...
Ongoing demonstrations in Hong Kong against now-suspended extradition rules and aggressive...
At Inkstone News, Mandy Zuo reports on the likely career-ending five-day detention of a young...
The Chinese Communist Party has launched a new campaign aimed at “enhancing...
CDT Chinese editors selected their 10 top news stories of 2017, which were published on the...
Chinese military action blockbuster “Wolf Warrior 2” (战狼2), set in a generic African...
Nationalistic military action film “Wolf Warrior 2” (战狼2), co-written and directed by...
Anti-South Korean sentiment spiked in China after Beijing castigated the recent American...
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