During a January 20 press conference, China’s National Health Commission stated that all hoping to return to countryside homes for next month’s Spring Festival must first get tested for COVID. The following day, Xinhua News...
Read MoreAs the modern era is increasingly defined by the massive amounts of data generated by everyday transactions and the ways that authorities process this data to target, monitor, monetize, and control the people, Chinese web users...
Read MoreOn June 30, hours after Xi Jinping signed Hong Kong’s national security law in Beijing, authorities in the territory hastily implemented the controversial legislation. A chill descended on the city as observers across the...
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Human Rights Watch has reported on a program which has gathered biometric data—including...
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Responding to an increase in violent incidents in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China, authorities...
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The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
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In response to escalating violence throughout China, authorities launched a nationwide crackdown...
Read MoreIn the wake of several recent corruption and sex scandals, a new round of the anti-corruption game has been launched. From Andrew Jacobs at The New York Times: “The anticorruption storm has begun,” People’s Daily, the party...
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times looks at the challenges facing Chinese citizens who are waging independent campaigns, largely through social media, to get elected to local people’s congress positions: The positions of people’s...
Read MoreThe wave of independent candidates has suffered various setbacks in their campaign to win local political office. But the movement has just gotten some new blood in Beijing–a celebrity. Cheng Yuting, born in 1988, is a...
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