China’s Predictive Policing and “Digital Totalitarianism”
Human Rights Watch’s Maya Wang warned this week about Chinese authorities’ combination...
Mar 1, 2018
Human Rights Watch’s Maya Wang warned this week about Chinese authorities’ combination...
Jan 20, 2017
Like many around the world who are coming to grips with a Trump presidency, ordinary Chinese are...
Dec 22, 2015
Radio Free Asia reports that writer, historian, and frequent critic of China’s ethnic...
Sep 25, 2014
After receiving an unexpectedly harsh life sentence for separatism on Tuesday, Uyghur scholar...
Sep 23, 2014
An Urumqi court passed an unexpectedly heavy sentence of life imprisonment for separatism on...
Sep 22, 2014
With a verdict against Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti expected on Tuesday following his trial for...
Aug 8, 2014
In a two-part interview at The New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson talks to Tibetan writer...
Jul 15, 2014
Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser discusses her recent house arrest and the current situation in Tibet...
Jul 9, 2014
Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser reports that she and her husband Wang Lixiong have once again been...
Apr 10, 2014
Wang Lixiong is one half of a writer-activist couple in Beijing. His wife, Tsering Woeser, is...
Mar 18, 2014
After the deadly Kunming train station attack on March 1 highlighted growing tensions between the...
Mar 17, 2014
In the wake of a deadly attack by knife-wielding assailants in the Kunming train station, and amid...
Jul 22, 2013
After revealing his identity to The Guardian in Hong Kong (via CDT) and before beginning a long layover at the Moscow airport, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden publicly mentioned that the U.S. has long been hacking into Chinese...
Jun 20, 2013
Since 2008, Tibetan writer, activist, and blogger Woeser has repeatedly found herself (along with her husband Wang Lixiong) under house arrest. According to a post published yesterday on her Chinese-language blog, Wang and...
May 2, 2013
Earlier this month, Apple removed an app including three of dissident writer Wang Lixiong’s books from its App Store in China. Wang’s wife, the famous Tibetan blogger Tsering Woeser accuses Apple of bowing to the...
Feb 26, 2013
Ahead of the National People’s Congress annual session next month, during which Xi Jinping is expected to take over as state president, a group of 100 prominent intellectuals, journalists, and lawyers have penned an open...
Jan 3, 2013
Following a surge in self-immolations in Tibetan areas in late 2012, authorities cracked down on access to news and information in the region. In recent weeks, the number of self-immolations seems to have slowed, or at least...
Nov 10, 2012
To ensure that the 18th Party Congress runs harmoniously, authorities have recruited an army of 1.4 million volunteers, further disrupted internet access, placed restrictions on fruit knives, taxi windows, ping pong balls,...