A recent comment by Sheng Laiyun, deputy director of China’s National Bureau of Statistics, has attracted a fair amount of negative attention online. Addressing China’s declining population growth at an October 18...
On July 7, the Chinese Quora-like Q&A site Zhihu announced that users will no longer be able to post questions and answers anonymously. For existing content posted anonymously, users will be able to choose whether to keep it...
A new draft patriotic education law submitted last week to the National People’s Congress Standing Committee is spurring spirited online debate. Broad in scope, the draft law includes provisions for the role of Chinese...
A pair of recently surfaced screenshots appear to offer unusual detail about a special month-long operation, held in Beijing and involving over 40 Ministry of Public Security computer specialists from around the country, to...
The following censorship instructions have been distributed online. In order to create a festive and harmonious atmosphere for online discourse during Spring Festival, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has...
Over two years after the National Security Law went into effect, government censorship continues to stifle free expression in Hong Kong. Authorities have recently taken measures to conceal from the public various books, films,...
Last week, the U.S.-based think tank National Bureau of Asian Research published a roundtable edition of its Asia Policy journal that shared African perspectives on the China-Africa relationship. One essay was written by...
A leaked internal document from Xiaohongshu reveals how the Instagram-like social media and...
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,...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body have been omitted to protect the source. CDT obtained four leaked...
At the National People’s Congress, China’s parliament overwhelmingly approved a series...
A government order to Chinese broadcasters issued last week, along with the hasty removal of...
Between 2005 and 2011, Australian JFK Miller served as editor-in-chief of the Shanghai-based...
Representatives from government departments, state media, and industry met at the 2016 Media...
A leaked voice message and series of screenshots from WeChat Enterprise appears to reveal a...
Launched in July of 2014 by the state-owned Shanghai United Media Group amid President Xi...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In an essay published by ChinaFile, University of Hong Kong’s David Bandurski analyzes the...
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