Over a whirlwind two weeks of diplomacy in Beijing, China has sought to strengthen its ties to both the United States and Russia—a difficult balancing act. Xi Jinping took a phone call with U.S. President Joe Biden last week...
Catastrophic flooding caused by Typhoon Doksuri has killed at least 21 people, left approximately 26 people missing, and led to the evacuation of hundreds of thousands in northern China. Rainfall in Beijing broke a 140-year old...
Hong Kong’s national security purge shows no signs of slowing down, two and a half years after Beijing’s National Security Law was forced through the territory’s legislature. The government’s latest legal pursuits have targeted...
A series of recent surveys shows how Chinese diplomacy in the era of Xi Jinping has soured attitudes toward China in many developed countries. At the same time, Chinese officials are doubling down on their foreign policy...
A report by the NGO Hong Kong Watch reveals that numerous major international pension funds have been heavily invested in Chinese companies connected to serious human rights issues. Some of these pension holders, such as members...
Portions of a reunion episode of the American sitcom Friends were censored for Chinese audiences this past week. Friends was once wildly popular: grassroots subtitling groups translated episodes into Chinese and many fans...
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,...
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,...
At Foreign Policy, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian this week reported on efforts by the Communist Party...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Anti-South Korean sentiment spiked in China after Beijing castigated the recent American...
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson embarked on his first diplomatic trip to Asia this week,...
Following the United States’ deployment of an antimissile system in South Korea—which began...
“My War,” a Korean War film set for release in Chinese theaters tomorrow, has already...
Official visits to Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine, where convicted war criminals are enshrined...
Shen Yun—a New York-based performance group founded in 2006 by adherents of the banned spiritual...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
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