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Peng Shuai Interview Leaves Much Unanswered
A pro-Beijing Singaporean state-controlled news outlet’s brief interview with Peng Shuai has raised more questions than it answered. A reporter for Lianhe Zaobao pulled Peng aside for an ostensibly unscheduled interview along...
Read MoreRecord Low Turnout for Hong Kong’s “Patriots Only” Election in Rebuke to Beijing
Sunday’s election for Hong Kong’s legislative council yielded the lowest turnout in the history of the city’s legislative elections under both Chinese and British rule. In this “patriots only” election—featuring only candidates...
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Henan Trains Surveillance On Journalists, Students
A Chinese province has commissioned the construction of a surveillance system aimed at tracking journalists and foreign students, among other groups. Henan, a province in central China, commissioned the system in July of this...
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Chinese Joke About Lawyers Turns Out To Be All Too True
There’s a Chinese joke about lawyers that goes like this: “You know you broke the law, right?” “Which law?” “Why, teaching the law is illegal!” [Editor’s note: It reads better in the original Chinese] The joke became reality...
Read MoreThe CCP’s Willing Influencers Amplify State Propaganda Online
This week, a slew of new reports on China’s online propaganda campaigns was released. As researchers documented, the CCP is increasingly using foreign influencers to disseminate pro-China narratives on Western social...
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Interview: Maria Repnikova on Chinese Soft Power
China’s soft power initiatives are often derided by Western observers as ineffective or counterproductive. Over a hundred Confucius Institutes in the U.S. and Europe have been targeted as arms of the Chinese state and forced to...
Read MoreAlibaba Fires #MeToo Victim; Weibo Censors “Gender Opposition”
Alibaba has fired the employee who in August accused a manager of rape in apparent retaliation for her story going public. The victim, surnamed Zhou, alleged that her manager raped her after a boozy client dinner. Her accusation...
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Uyghur Tribunal Finds Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, as Olympic Protests Continue
Last Thursday, the Uyghur Tribunal delivered its judgment assessing evidence of the Chinese government’s alleged genocide of the Uyghur minority. Acting as an independent “people’s tribunal” and equipped with moral credibility...
Read MoreOops! Little Pinks Unwittingly Call Xi Jinping a “Race Traitor”
On December 13, the moderator of a Weibo supertopic page dedicated to Uno Santa, a Japanese member of a Chinese boy band, reposted a People’s Daily commemoration of the Nanjing Massacre and added the caption: “‘We should not...
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