Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Four Big Critiques
In June 2014, a senior inspector from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (the...
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Boxun: Unified Strategy vs Hostile Rightist Forces
Overseas political news website Boxun obtained a purported memo from a telephone conference of the...
Unraveling China’s Campaign Against Western Values
A recent flurry of translations at Fei Chang Dao tracks the development of China’s current...
Three Questions on ‘Western Values’ in Education
Donald Clarke translates three questions from Shen Kui, former vice dean of Peking University Law...
Minitrue: Delete Article on Foreign Infiltration of CASS
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
China: US Has No Right to Comment on Activists’ Fate
With the fifth anniversary of Liu Xiaobo’s most recent arrest, his wife Liu Xia suffering...
Party Journal Decries Western ‘Democracy Trap’
Any speculation that the Xi administration would foster an environment welcoming political...
Eric X. Li: A Tale of Two Political Systems
In a newly published talk from last month’s TEDGlobal 2013 conference, venture capitalist Eric X. Li reprises his defense of China’s one-party system, arguing that contrary to Western assumptions, it is characterized...
Striving for Freedom in the Chinese New Year
At The Washington Post, Perry Link and CDT founder Xiao Qiang point out a hollow in Xi Jinping’s “China dream”, between individuals’ material wishes and the “spiritual” goals of the state....
The Children Devour the Revolution
As many Chinese high officials send their kids overseas, some stability-obsessed Party members warn that those children might undermine the “red regime”. From John Garnaut at Foreign Policy: The Arab Spring that...
Middle East Revolutions: The View from China
Perry Link writes on the New York Review of Books blog about the impact of recent revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia on activism in China, and how they give the lie to the official Chinese view that demands for human rights and...
Qin Xiao: In China, a Rising Tide for Universal Values
An article in Caixin looks at the tensions between traditional and modern societies and universal values vs. the “China Model Theory,” and what these ideas mean for the future of China: Early this century,...
Zhang Minchang: Liu Xiaobo Wins the Nobel Peace Prize: A Victory for Universal Values*!
From blogger Zhang Minchang (张民昌), translated by CDT: On the afternoon of October 8th, 2010, a friend suddenly called me on the phone to say that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize went to Mr. Liu Xiaobo. Thereafter, I received...
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