Netizen Voices: Hu Xijin’s Taliban Friendship Comments Criticized
A Taliban spokesperson’s claim that China is a “friend” incited an online furore after nationalist Chinese media figures shared the statement approvingly. “We have been to China many times and we have good relations with them,”...
Read MoreNetizen Voices: LGBT Groups, #MeToo Activist Shut Down By WeChat, Weibo
Late in the evening on Tuesday, July 6, WeChat simultaneously deleted dozens of LGBTQ+-related public accounts. A number of these were run by student groups at China’s most prestigious universities, and had operated for years...
Read MoreDraconian Sentences For Tibetan Monks After Monastery Raid
A new Human Rights Watch Report on the secret trials of four Tibetan monks has shed light on repression in Tibet. At The Guardian, Helen Davidson summarized HRW’s report on the raid against a small monastery in the foothills of...
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Translation: Censors Erase Father’s Grief After Shenzhen Factory Suicide
Censors have scrubbed a father’s anguished “plea for help,” written in the aftermath of his son’s suicide, from Chinese social media. His son, a 17-year-old Hubei high school student, committed suicide after being forced to work...
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On 100th Anniversary of CCP, Xi Declares Triumph of Socialism
On July 1, weeks of secretive preparations for the Party’s centenary culminated in a massive ceremony in Tiananmen Square punctuated by a martial speech delivered by Xi Jinping. Xi warned that anyone who dare bully, oppress, or...
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Hong Kong’s Free Media Forced To Self-Censor; First National Security Trial Held
Hong Kong’s National Security Law has been used to cudgel the city’s free media within an inch of its life. What began with a slow effort to pare Hong Kong’s premier broadcast television network RTHK of its investigative teeth...
Read MoreTranslation: Timeline of Court Rulings Removed from the Internet
A vast online database of Chinese court rulings has just shrunk by over 9%. Though China Judgments Online (中国裁判文书网), launched in 2014 by the Supreme People’s Court, has always been translucent at best—it is supposed to exclude...
Read MoreThe Party Works to Ensure Nothing, Especially Not History, Will Spoil 100th Anniversary
On July 1, the Chinese Communist Party will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. The Party was actually founded on July 23 but the mixup, although acknowledged, has never been rectified—perhaps because the date has a...
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Translations: One Apple Falls, And A Thousand Apples Grow
In a year of wretched milestones for Hong Kong’s civil liberties, this week stands apart, with the closure of Hong Kong’s only pro-democracy legacy newspaper, Apple Daily. From the arrest of five Apple Daily...
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