This week, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published “China Targets,” a 10-month, cross-border investigation with dozens of media partners around the world on the topic of Beijing’s...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a U.S. peace plan that would freeze territory along the current front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, stipulate that Ukraine could never join NATO, and require...
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On Saturday, Beijing hosted the world’s first half-marathon in which humans competed alongside...
CDT noted last month that recent Chinese naval exercises around Australia had sparked a spike in...
It’s the people online hyping up war and acting all heroic that I find most disgusting. In war, there are no heroes. Everyone’s a villain, because you have no choice but to kill."
— From an interview between investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Chao Jing and "Macaron," a Chinese mercenary fighting on the Russian side in Ukraine. Macaron criticized the naive, bellicose online comments of Chinese nationalists who had not experienced war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a U.S. peace plan that would freeze territory along the current front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, stipulate that Ukraine could never join NATO, and require Ukraine to recognise Russia’s annexation of Crimea—the latter, a position that Ukraine and many European nations are resolutely opposed to. In response, a planned meeting in London between top diplomats from the U.S., Ukraine, France, Germany, and the U.K. was postponed, and discussions to end the war were downgraded. Given these developments, the diplomatic wrangling and the...
The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war...
More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li...
Hu Dehua, the third son of former General Secretary Hu Yaobang, died in Beijing on March 30. The...
In recent days, the capture of two Chinese soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital connectivity to enhance its repression of Tibetans on the plateau and in the diaspora. On Wednesday, Turquoise Roof and Tibet Watch published a report titled “A Long Shadow: The expansion and export of China’s digital repression model in Tibet,” which examined procurement documents from a digital forensics firm integral to the securitization of Tibetans’ digital networks. From the report’s executive summary: Recent procurement documents reveal that Meiya Pico, a Chinese state-owned digital forensics firm,...
The latest political development in Hong Kong underscores the extent to which authorities have...
The Trump administration’s recent tariff measures triggered a geopolitical earthquake that has...
This week, 20-year-old American influencer Darren Watkins Jr., better known as IShowSpeed,...
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Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing have found themselves in the...
This week, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published “China Targets,” a 10-month, cross-border investigation with dozens of media partners around the world on the topic of Beijing’s transnational repression. The resulting series of articles describe how Chinese authorities have instrumentalized Interpol "red notices" to track down overseas dissidents and how CCP-aligned NGOs have blunted criticism of China at the U.N. Scilla Alecci and the ICIJ team provided an overview of their investigation into “China’s machinery of repression—and how it crushes...
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital...
Last week, Chinese state media reported that Wu Yingjie, the former Party chief of the Tibetan...
Last week, a Chinese PhD student at University College London was found guilty by a British court...
Convening next week for its annual gathering, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...
Thailand’s government deported 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China in a secretive overnight...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a U.S. peace plan that would freeze territory along the current front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, stipulate that Ukraine could never join NATO, and require Ukraine to recognise Russia’s annexation of Crimea—the latter, a position that Ukraine and many European nations are resolutely opposed to. In response, a planned meeting in London between top diplomats from the U.S., Ukraine, France, Germany, and the U.K. was postponed, and discussions to end the war were downgraded. Given these developments, the diplomatic wrangling and the...
The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war...
More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li...
Hu Dehua, the third son of former General Secretary Hu Yaobang, died in Beijing on March 30. The...
In recent days, the capture of two Chinese soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
This week, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published “China Targets,” a 10-month, cross-border investigation with dozens of media partners around the world on the topic of Beijing’s transnational repression. The resulting series of articles describe how Chinese authorities have instrumentalized Interpol "red notices" to track down overseas dissidents and how CCP-aligned NGOs have blunted criticism of China at the U.N. Scilla Alecci and the ICIJ team provided an overview of their investigation into “China’s machinery of repression—and how it crushes...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a U.S. peace plan that would freeze territory...
Global tributes poured in following the death of Pope Francis on Monday, as world leaders and...
CDT noted last month that recent Chinese naval exercises around Australia had sparked a spike in...
The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war...
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital...
The latest political development in Hong Kong underscores the extent to which authorities have cleansed the city of democracy. On Sunday, the Democratic Party, Hong Kong’s last remaining opposition party, decided that it will soon disband under pressure from officials. Its members voted to begin the process, although the final motion to officially disband the party will be taken at another general meeting later in the year. James Pomfret and Jessie Pang from Reuters described the cause and significance of the party’s disbandment: Five senior members of the Democratic Party had earlier told...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic, and shed light on the propaganda machinery’s efforts to grapple with the outbreak. They were originally published between September and December, 2020 as the Minitrue Diary series, after the censorship and propaganda organs’ Orwellian online nickname 真理部 Zhēnlǐ bù, or "Ministry of...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
A recent WeChat post reveals that some Chinese schools and universities are using special software...
In the two weeks since the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China...
A pair of recently surfaced screenshots appear to offer unusual detail about a special month-long...
On September 12, 2003, John Battelle published the first post on chinadigitaltimes.net: Here’s what a Google Search on “china weblog” yields, I’m looking forward to seeing ours at the top soon! China’s online population at the start of that year was nearly 60 million. Ten years later, it was fast approaching 600 million, and now, after 20, it is well over a billion. This new completely revised and hugely expanded update to our ebook series, formerly known as “the Grass Mud Horse Lexicon,” aims to capture something of the enormous explosion of online speech that accompanied this growth, with...
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Surveys have shown that Xi Jinping’s hardline foreign policy is increasingly unpopular abroad....
Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of Government at Cornell University, joined CDT to discuss his...
Evidence of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang has...
On Saturday, Beijing hosted the world’s first half-marathon in which humans competed alongside humanoid robots. Among the 21 robots to compete, six completed the race, and the winning robot required several battery changes to reach the finish line in two hours and 40 minutes, well behind the winner of the men’s race who finished in one hour and two minutes. Nonetheless, the groundbreaking event received glowing reports in Chinese media, and as Amy Hawkins reported for The Guardian, it is emblematic of China’s strides in the widespread deployment of robots and “embodied AI”: It is not just...
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The Trump administration’s recent tariff measures triggered a geopolitical earthquake that has...
While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has...
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing have found themselves in the...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a U.S. peace plan that would freeze territory along the current front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, stipulate that Ukraine could never join NATO, and require Ukraine to recognise Russia’s annexation of Crimea—the latter, a position that Ukraine and many European nations are resolutely opposed to. In response, a planned meeting in London between top diplomats from the U.S., Ukraine, France, Germany, and the U.K. was postponed, and discussions to end the war were downgraded. Given these developments, the diplomatic wrangling and the...
Global tributes poured in following the death of Pope Francis on Monday, as world leaders and...
On Saturday, Beijing hosted the world’s first half-marathon in which humans competed alongside...
The first reaction by China’s state-media apparatus following the escalating U.S.-China trade war...
More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li...
Hu Dehua, the third son of former General Secretary Hu Yaobang, died in Beijing on March 30. The...
On Saturday, Beijing hosted the world’s first half-marathon in which humans competed alongside humanoid robots. Among the 21 robots to compete, six completed the race, and the winning robot required several battery changes to reach the finish line in two hours and 40 minutes, well behind the winner of the men’s race who finished in one hour and two minutes. Nonetheless, the groundbreaking event received glowing reports in Chinese media, and as Amy Hawkins reported for The Guardian, it is emblematic of China’s strides in the widespread deployment of robots and “embodied AI”: It is not just...
More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
The Open Technology Fund published a report earlier this month highlighting the rise of...
Chinese tech giant Huawei is embroiled in a major corruption scandal, in which the company is...
A new report by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) explores the growing demand for human-powered...
This week, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published “China Targets,” a 10-month, cross-border investigation with dozens of media partners around the world on the topic of Beijing’s transnational repression. The resulting series of articles describe how Chinese authorities have instrumentalized Interpol "red notices" to track down overseas dissidents and how CCP-aligned NGOs have blunted criticism of China at the U.N. Scilla Alecci and the ICIJ team provided an overview of their investigation into “China’s machinery of repression—and how it crushes...
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital...
The latest political development in Hong Kong underscores the extent to which authorities have...
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing have found themselves in the...
Despite troubling jurisdictional issues, the Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau in...
Chinese tech giant Huawei is embroiled in a major corruption scandal, in which the company is...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic, and shed light on the propaganda machinery’s efforts to grapple with the outbreak. They were originally published between September and December, 2020 as the Minitrue Diary series, after the censorship and propaganda organs’ Orwellian online nickname 真理部 Zhēnlǐ bù, or "Ministry of...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
On March 16, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that the Chinese economy was...
A recent WeChat post from oft-controversial entrepreneur, publicity hound, and philanthropist Chen...
Even before the lifting of China’s long-standing “zero-COVID” policy in early December of last...
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This week, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published “China Targets,” a 10-month, cross-border investigation with dozens of media partners around the world on the topic of Beijing’s transnational repression. The resulting series of articles describe how Chinese authorities have instrumentalized Interpol "red notices" to track down overseas dissidents and how CCP-aligned NGOs have blunted criticism of China at the U.N. Scilla Alecci and the ICIJ team provided an overview of their investigation into “China’s machinery of repression—and how it crushes...
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital...
Last week, Chinese state media reported that Wu Yingjie, the former Party chief of the Tibetan...
Following China’s unannounced naval exercises off the coast of Australia late last month, there has been a noticeable increase in Chinese social media content promoting the invasion (or “nabbing/seizing”) of Australia. There has also been pushback: many Chinese bloggers and commenters have expressed alarm about the rise of such bellicose online sentiment, and the extent to which it is being allowed to proliferate online, particularly in comparison to platform censorship of some more level-headed commentary on Sino-Australian relations. Last month’s Chinese live-fire naval drills, while...
A photo showing three construction workers suspended from a gateway in their safety harnesses has...
China’s annual Two Sessions political meetings recently drew to a close, minus the presence of...
This year, the theme of World Consumer Rights Day on March 15 was “a just transition to sustainable lifestyles.” As it has every year since 1991, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV marked the occasion with a televised “315 Gala” exposing some of the most notable consumer rights scandals from the past year. The 2025 edition highlighted supply chain issues in some consumer products being sold online, including seafood suppliers that use illegal additives to increase the weight of prepackaged frozen shrimp, and factories that sell diapers and sanitary pads made from recycled waste. (Last year,...
At South China Morning Post last week, Mandy Zuo reported on employment targets announced at the...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
An acidic waste spill by a Chinese company in Zambia has created a massive environmental crisis that threatens a river on which millions of Zambians rely. The incident occurred last month at a facility owned by Sino-Metals Leach Zambia, a firm majority-owned by the Chinese state-run China Nonferrous Metals Industry Group. In addition to straining Zambia-China relations, the incident underscores Zambia’s economic vulnerability, since its copper extraction industry is dependent on Chinese and Western corporations with poor environmental track records. Richard Kille and Jacob Zimba at the...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
This week, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published “China Targets,” a 10-month, cross-border investigation with dozens of media partners around the world on the topic of Beijing’s transnational repression. The resulting series of articles describe how Chinese authorities have instrumentalized Interpol "red notices" to track down overseas dissidents and how CCP-aligned NGOs have blunted criticism of China at the U.N. Scilla Alecci and the ICIJ team provided an overview of their investigation into “China’s machinery of repression—and how it crushes...
Recent reports detail ways in which the Chinese government has instrumentalized digital...
The latest political development in Hong Kong underscores the extent to which authorities have...
Over the past two weeks, the Biden administration has issued a series of regulations intended to halt China’s development of advanced technologies. The measures restrict the export of advanced chips, design software, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment that are crucial to China’s military, AI, and supercomputing initiatives. While the impact of these regulations remains to be seen, this “major watershed” demonstrates a significant U.S. policy shift towards a more aggressive approach to China, and risks accelerating technological and economic decoupling between the two countries across...
Popular online writer Shen Maohua, who writes under the pen name Wei Zhou, is known for his...
As citizens revolt against never-ending lockdowns and local governments “resolutely struggle...
Despite troubling jurisdictional issues, the Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau in Xinjiang has imposed a fine of 75,000 yuan (US$10,300) on Yunnan-based artist and independent filmmaker Guo Zhenming (郭珍明) for “illegal filmmaking” activities. The administrative punishment also included the confiscation of Guo’s hard drive, two cameras, and some sound and lighting equipment. The penalties are being criticized by some Chinese netizens and supporters as blatant examples of administrative overreach, “high-seas fishing,” and suppression of artistic freedom. The unusually harsh punishment...
This year, the theme of World Consumer Rights Day on March 15 was “a just transition to...
Convening next week for its annual gathering, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic, and shed light on the propaganda machinery’s efforts to grapple with the outbreak. They were originally published between September and December, 2020 as the Minitrue Diary series, after the censorship and propaganda organs’ Orwellian online nickname 真理部 Zhēnlǐ bù, or "Ministry of...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
On March 16, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that the Chinese economy was...
On Saturday, Beijing hosted the world’s first half-marathon in which humans competed alongside humanoid robots. Among the 21 robots to compete, six completed the race, and the winning robot required several battery changes to reach the finish line in two hours and 40 minutes, well behind the winner of the men’s race who finished in one hour and two minutes. Nonetheless, the groundbreaking event received glowing reports in Chinese media, and as Amy Hawkins reported for The Guardian, it is emblematic of China’s strides in the widespread deployment of robots and “embodied AI”: It is not just...
More than five years after the Wuhan lockdown and the death of COVID whistleblower Dr. Li...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
An acidic waste spill by a Chinese company in Zambia has created a massive environmental crisis that threatens a river on which millions of Zambians rely. The incident occurred last month at a facility owned by Sino-Metals Leach Zambia, a firm majority-owned by the Chinese state-run China Nonferrous Metals Industry Group. In addition to straining Zambia-China relations, the incident underscores Zambia’s economic vulnerability, since its copper extraction industry is dependent on Chinese and Western corporations with poor environmental track records. Richard Kille and Jacob Zimba at the...
On Tuesday morning, a county in Tibet experienced one of its strongest earthquakes in years....
Infrastructure projects in Tibet have often drawn controversy for failing to balance development,...
The latest political development in Hong Kong underscores the extent to which authorities have cleansed the city of democracy. On Sunday, the Democratic Party, Hong Kong’s last remaining opposition party, decided that it will soon disband under pressure from officials. Its members voted to begin the process, although the final motion to officially disband the party will be taken at another general meeting later in the year. James Pomfret and Jessie Pang from Reuters described the cause and significance of the party’s disbandment: Five senior members of the Democratic Party had earlier told...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
Global tributes poured in following the death of Pope Francis on Monday, as world leaders and admirers of all faiths mourn a figure of peace in a time of growing conflict. However, as Italy’s Corriere della Sera bitterly noted, Chinese media largely ignored the pope’s death, with most Chinese newspapers relegating that news to short briefs buried behind front pages saturated in Xi Jinping hagiography. Nectar Gan at CNN described how the China’s muted official response to Pope Francis’ death reflects its historically tense relationship with the Vatican: Chinese state-controlled media’s...
Following China’s unannounced naval exercises off the coast of Australia late last month, there...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
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