China’s Population May Have Shrunk for First Time Since Great Leap Forward (Updated)
Updated at 21:21:47 PDT on Apr 27, 2021: This post has been updated to note doubts about the reportedly looming census figures. The latest Chinese census may reveal that China’s population has shrunk for the first time in...
Read MoreChina Responds To Labor Activists’ Demands With Repression, Arrests
Earlier this year, efforts to unionize China’s seven million food-delivery drivers were battered by the arrests of Chen Guojiang, or “Mengzhu” to his thousands of social media followers, and a host of other prominent labor...
Read MoreNetizen Voices: “With Its Own Actions, China Has Proved That What Chloé Zhao Said Was True”
Chloé Zhao made history on Sunday as the first woman of color to win an Oscar for best director. Her film “Nomadland” also took the top prize as the 2021 best picture. But in China, the country of Zhao’s birth,...
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Xi Attends White House Climate Summit Where Coal Is On The Menu
Chinese President Xi Jinping virtually attended a White House climate summit, fueling hopes that Joe Biden’s policy of “extreme competition” will propel both countries to combat the climate crisis. Before the summit, Biden...
Read MoreAustralia Scraps Belt and Road Agreement as NZ Voices Caution Over Five Eyes Intel Alliance
The Australian federal government has used its expanded powers to terminate a Belt and Road infrastructure agreement between China and the state of Victoria. The move, announced on Wednesday, came amid the latest war of words...
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Netizen Voices: “They Fear if We Watch Too Much, We’ll Figure Out We’re at the Bottom”
Since the beginning of this year, popular short-video social media app Douyin has been reportedly punishing users for “flaunting wealth” in their videos on the platform. That crackdown came to a head this week after...
Read MoreWen Jiabao Essay Censored as Xi Meets Adoring Tsinghua Crowd
An essay by former Premier Wen Jiabao memorializing his late mother was censored this past week, but it was the essay’s content rather than its erasure that raised eyebrows. Wen wrote poignantly about his family’s suffering...
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New HRW Report Chronicles Crimes Against Humanity In Xinjiang
A joint report by Human Right’s Watch and Stanford Law School’s Mills Legal Clinic, titled “‘Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots’: China’s Crimes against Humanity Targeting Uyghurs and Other Turkic...
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After Shuttering of Feminist Douban Groups, Women Call for Unity Online
A crackdown on “extremism and radical politics” has shut down feminist Douban groups, and in turn rallied Chinese women to declare support for the movement and opposition to the censorship of critical social...
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