Translation: Should We Treat the Unvaccinated Like Deadbeats?
China is in the midst of a push to vaccinate 560 million people—40 percent of its population—by June. However, facing slow vaccine uptake (a February survey found the majority of medical workers unwilling to take it) and a minor...
Read MoreTranslation: “To Those Who Cannot Hear” on Wuhan’s Tomb Sweeping Day
Over the weekend, an extended essay about Wuhan’s observation of the 2021 Qingming Festival (Tomb Sweeping Day) received considerable attention on Chinese social media. Weaving together painful memories from last...
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Propaganda Films Attempt to Cloak Xinjiang in Disinformation
The Chinese government has made painstaking efforts to obscure and distort information about its crackdown on Xinjiang’s ethnic minorities. The propaganda campaign is double-edged—aimed at both Chinese citizens and the world at...
Read MoreIn U.S. and China, Competition Rhetoric Meets Inequality Concerns
Two weeks after the U.S.’ and China’s foreign ministers met for face-to-face dialogues for the first time under the Biden administration, relations between the two governments remain solidly frosty. But as both sides...
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Translation: Wei Zhou on “Empathy for Authority”
Wei Zhou is a rare voice in the world of WeChat public accounts, keeping his critiques of contemporary Chinese society just vague enough to stave off censorship (most of the time), yet relevant enough to amass a steady...
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Hong Kong’s “Father of Democracy,” Six Others, Convicted of Illegal Assembly
On Wednesday, March 31, Hong Kong’s “father of democracy” Martin Lee, media mogul Jimmy Lai, politician “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung, barrister Margaret Ng, and three others were convicted of illegal assembly for their leadership...
Read MoreTranslation: After H&M Incident, Netizens Reflect on the Meaning of Patriotism
Multinational clothing retailer H&M last week found itself the target of a state-sponsored storm of nationalistic scorn and a widespread boycott by Chinese consumers over a (recently deleted) October 2020 statement...
Read MoreBBC Reporter Moves to Taiwan After Harassment in China
After a months-long campaign to discredit the BBC for its reporting on Xinjiang, the BBC reports that China correspondent John Sudworth has relocated to Taiwan along with his wife, RTÉ News China correspondent Yvonne Murray: He...
Read MoreHong Kong Electoral Downgrade Slashes Elected Share of Legislature, Puts Candidate Vetting Above Law
On the eve of Hong Kong’s handover in 1997, Jiang Zemin famously held up a piece of calligraphy that declared: “Hong Kong’s tomorrow will be better.” Article 68 of the city’s Basic Law states that...
Read MoreWorld Health Organization’s Coronavirus Investigation Report Meets Widespread Condemnation
On Tuesday, March 30, the World Health Organization published its coronavirus origins investigation report, which promptly met criticism from a surprising source: the organization’s own leader, Director-General Tedros Adhanom...
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