The culprits behind the beating of a reporter in Guizhou that scandalized China have been identified: a local vice-police chief and two auxiliary officers perpetrated the assault. On May 30, Jimu News reporter Li Xiancheng...
The full report can be read in PDF form here. Below is a brief introduction. A CDT investigation details the efforts of police and other departments across China to utilize geographic information systems (GIS) to enhance and...
Snow? In Hebei? In May? Don’t even joke about it.A young man in a small city in southern Hebei was called in for talks by the local internet police after posting a video of snowfall to Douyin tagged “Shahe City,...
The wife of a prominent former Chinese bookseller is being prevented from leaving China until her husband returns to the country to answer questions about his alleged political writings. Yu Miao ran Shanghai’s famed liberal...
Li Wenliang was one of eight people punished by Wuhan authorities in early January for spreading rumors about the emerging coronavirus outbreak that has now been declared a “global health emergency.” Initially...
The Trump administration is adding 28 Chinese entities including top AI companies and state...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
Responding to an increase in violent incidents in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China, authorities...
Li Dongsheng, former deputy head of public security and an associate of jailed former security...
Sensitive Words highlights keywords that are blocked from Sina Weibo search results. CDT...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
While Chinese censors frequently delete weibo posts and block sensitive online content, six...
With former municipal party chief Bo Xilai awaiting trial, his erstwhile right hand man Wang Lijun already sentenced, and rising star Sun Zhengcai now in place as Bo’s successor, Chongqing is quietly cleaning itself up....
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Despite calls for his ouster, it seems Zhou Yongkang won’t be leaving the Politburo Standing...
As China’s microblogging population continues to surge, with more than 300 registered users reported last week, Shanghai’s municipal government launched an official microblog on Sina Weibo called “Shanghai...
A 42-year-old man from Hubei province set himself on fire in Tiananmen Square on the morning of October 21, according to a British eyewitness who photographed the scene. From the Daily Telegraph: “The man did it right in...
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