A fawning Xinhua article on Xi Jinping’s concern for citizens affected by natural disasters has become the latest piece of “low-level red, high-level black” propaganda. Intended to tout Xi’s steadfast leadership, it...
Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of Government at Cornell University, joined CDT to discuss his new book, Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China. In a wide-ranging conversation,...
Businesswoman Duan Weihong, who disappeared in 2017 after the arrest of politburo member Sun Zhengcai, resurfaced this past week to request that her ex-husband not publish an explosive memoir detailing elite corruption in China....
An essay by former Premier Wen Jiabao memorializing his late mother was censored this past week, but it was the essay’s content rather than its erasure that raised eyebrows. Wen wrote poignantly about his family’s suffering...
In August The Intercept’s Ryan Gallagher revealed that Google had been working in secret on...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Sensitive Words highlights keywords that are blocked from Sina Weibo search results. CDT...
As the protest movement in Hong Kong grinds on, police this week dismantled bamboo barricades and...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Update: The play on words in the blocked keyword “Liu Yunshan” is now explained. As of...
Coverage of Beijing’s decision on election of the chief executive of the Hong Kong, S.A.R. was...
影帝 (yǐngdì): movie star Nickname for former prime minister Wen Jiabao, a nod to his many...
As of August 1, the following search terms were blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
Xinhua announces the long-anticipated investigation of China’s former domestic security chief Zhou...
As of July 16, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Simon Montlake and Peter Foster at the Telegraph have uncovered evidence that a charity which...
As of February 14, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
Continuing an investigation into the China hiring practices at JP Morgan, which began late last...
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