Many entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens welcomed the news that provincial prosecutors in Guizhou are investigating a local government for arresting businesswoman Ma Yijiayi and her lawyers and accusing them of “picking...
A post about a Guangzhou public opinion poll showing the largest drop in public satisfaction in 30 years has been deleted after being published by the WeChat account of He Wenwei, a Guangzhou-based business consultant who blogs...
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...
A Sichuan city’s adoption of Yuan Dynasty-style community policing has inspired fears of a return to the despotism of yore. Zigong is the latest municipality to launch a trial of the shihuzhang, or “ten-household captain...
The CCP has become synonymous with surveillance. On an increasingly authoritarian trajectory, Xi Jinping has bet his and the Party’s longevity on its ability to not only neutralize challenges to authority but also anticipate...
Over the past few weeks, tens of thousands of Chinese homebuyers have banded together and refused to continue paying mortgages on unfinished homes. Homebuyers in China frequently purchase “pre-sale” homes long before developers...
Hundreds of bank depositors clashed with police in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan, in a major escalation of a simmering conflict between rural customers and a consortium of likely insolvent local banks that have...
On Wednesday, the National People’s Congress took a step towards the creation of China’s first...
Last month saw the long-anticipated trials of three Guangdong labor activists charged with...
Economic growth and poverty reduction are two of the Chinese Communist Party’s core goals...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
At The New York Times, Emily Feng and Edward Wong talk to the Australian National...
After draft national security legislation was criticized by analysts in May for its exceptionally...
Last week was China’s second annual “Awareness Week for National Cybersecurity,”...
As China edges towards greater legal protections for sufferers of domestic abuse, a Sichuan court...
While China often voices suspicion that the U.S. is trying to undermine it, president Barack Obama...
Cultural challenges from the West will be among five threats targeted by Xi Jinping’s new...
As unrest grows in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Xi Jinping will be reorienting the...
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