Photo: Untitled (Yinchuan, Ningxia), by Daniel Taka
Untitled (Yinchuan, Ningxia), by Daniel Taka (CC BY-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Oct 21, 2024
Untitled (Yinchuan, Ningxia), by Daniel Taka (CC BY-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Arthur Kaufman | Oct 21, 2024
China’s relationship with Israel has soured over the past year. Throughout Israel’s war in Gaza, China has repeatedly blamed Israel and its American backing for the continuation of violence, and has attempted to play the...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Oct 21, 2024
Chinese internet users are taking issue with a recent announcement that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and Ministry of Education are trying to standardize online speech by cracking down on the use of “irregular and...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Oct 18, 2024
Xiamen University, by Xiquinho Silva (CC BY 2.0)
Read Moreby Alexander Boyd | Oct 18, 2024
In a remarkable interview, a censor for one of China’s biggest search engines described what gets deleted from the Chinese internet and how—as well as their perspective on the morality of their work. The interview was...
Read Moreby Arthur Kaufman | Oct 18, 2024
The latest draconian decree issued by the Taliban on Monday was a gradual media ban on all images of living things in news coverage. Repression of the media and civil rights may be even harsher under the Taliban than under the...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Oct 16, 2024
Songjiang Tram, Shanghai, by emperornie (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Oct 16, 2024
Two years after Peng Lifa’s courageous one-man protest on Beijing’s Sitong Bridge against Xi Jinping and the CCP’s autocratic rule, his whereabouts are still unknown, although it is widely presumed that he remains under...
Read Moreby Arthur Kaufman | Oct 16, 2024
International media coverage of China’s territorial disputes often focuses on India, Taiwan, and the Philippines—countries with substantial military forces or powerful Western backers that, at least to some degree, slow the...
Read Moreby Arthur Kaufman | Oct 16, 2024
China’s investments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are increasingly moving away from large infrastructure projects backed by massive state lending and towards smaller projects in electric vehicles and high-tech...
Read Moreby Arthur Kaufman | Oct 11, 2024
Leaders of southeast Asian countries gathered in Laos this week for the annual ASEAN summit and the concurrent East Asia Summit attended by major global partners. China, represented by Premier Li Qiang, hailed the “substantial...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Oct 11, 2024
Returning home, by Gauthier DELECROIX (CC BY 2.0)
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Oct 11, 2024
Ren Xinyi, the daughter of Ren Zhiqiang—a 73-year-old former real-estate magnate currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for corruption and other offenses—recently published an open letter to Xi Jinping, urging that her...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Oct 11, 2024
An October 8 stabbing outside an elementary school in Guangzhou, in which two nine-year-old students and an adult woman were injured, has drawn renewed attention to the phenomenon of indiscriminate knife attacks by people...
Read Moreby Arthur Kaufman | Oct 11, 2024
Three years after the Chinese government’s cautiously supportive stance toward the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan led to Chinese netizens blasting their government for being “Taliban in spirit,” China has maintained its...
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