Zhang Jieping: When Fear Comes, the First Thing to Retreat is Speech
Zhang Jieping is the founder and CEO of Matters Lab, a decentralized content platform. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of Initium Media and Executive Editor-in-Chief for iSun Affairs. Following the implementation of the new...
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First Arrests Made Under National Security Law as Hong Kong Protesters Defy Government Ban
Authorities in Hong Kong moved quickly to implement the new national security law, which went into effect at 11 pm Tuesday evening. As protesters defied a government ban on marches to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the...
Read MoreMinitrue: Delete Content on Newsweek Issue
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. All websites, find and delete...
Read MoreIndia Bans Chinese Apps Amid Privacy Concerns, Border Tensions
On Monday, Indian authorities announced a ban on dozens of Chinese apps including WeChat, Weibo, and TikTok. The official statement on the ban cited national security and consumer privacy, reflecting a broader global trend of...
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Chill Descends on Hong Kong as National Security Legislation Passes
On Tuesday, the National People’s Congress passed and Xi Jinping signed a national security law for Hong Kong, posing the most direct threat yet to the city’s semi-autonomous status, which had been guaranteed until...
Read MoreHong Kong’s Economy and National Security Law: Top Gear, or Wrench in Works?
Emerging details of Hong Kong’s impending National Security Law have fueled concern over its unprecedented encroachment on the territory’s political and legal autonomy, despite what NYU’s Jerome Cohen describes...
Read MoreCitizen Journalist Arrested After Covering Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak
Zhang Zhan, a rights activist, citizen journalist, and former lawyer, has been arrested on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” after being detained for over a month by the Shanghai police....
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5th Grader’s Suicide Sparks Debate on Pushing “Positive Energy” in Schools
Early this month in Changzhou, Jiangsu, a fifth-grade girl committed suicide at school, stirring a debate about the ethics of pushing political ideology on schoolchildren. The girl, ten-year-old Miao Kexin, is shown on school...
Read MoreRelease of Details on Hong Kong Security Law Raises More Questions
On Saturday, the National People’s Congress released a summary of proposed controversial national security legislation for Hong Kong. Among other things, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Law on the Preservation...
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Translation: Don’t Speak/Please Remember Them
These poems, attributed to 伯罗奔尼撒, or “Peloponnese,” were posted to WeChat by user 1号档案馆, or “Number 1 Archive.” CDT Chinese editors have archived them, and they are translated below with added links for...
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