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...
Read MoreChina Uses Global Influence Campaign To Deny Forced Labor, Mass Incarceration in Xinjiang
A landmark investigation from The Washington Post has added further evidence to allegations of forced labor in Xinjiang’s solar industry. The systemic use of forced labor in Xinjiang is part of a sweeping government campaign...
Read MoreMinitrue: Remove Products Touting “Lying Down” and “Involution”
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media and internet companies by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. Hello...
Read MoreTranslation: “Program-Think,” Notorious Anonymous Chinese Blogger, Feared Detained
An anonymous Chinese tech and politics blogger known as program-think (编程随想) has reportedly been detained in China after evading identification and arrest for more than 12 years. program-think, whose Blogspot posts included...
Read MorePolitics and Promotions Weigh On Chinese Academics
Life in Chinese academia is hard. Scholars are subject to twin pressures: politics and performance. Two recent cases—a professor’s lawsuit against Tsinghua University over wrongful dismissal connected to politically sensitive...
Read MoreApple Daily Publishes Final Issue Amid Tears, Applause, and Fears for Hong Kong’s Future
Following last week’s arrest of five Apple Daily executives on national security charges and the freezing of the company’s bank accounts, Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy newspaper published its final issue early...
Read MoreLinkedIn Censors Tiananmen Content, Again
When Microsoft’s LinkedIn launched a simplified Chinese webpage for Chinese users in 2014, it admitted it would follow Beijing’s censorship directives. It did so with a gusto that surprised even those who had engineered the...
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