CDT Censorship Digest, April 2020: Top-Down Hooliganization, from Propaganda to Diplomacy
In 2020, CDT Chinese editors launched the CDT Censorship Digest series. The series will collect and quote from news and online speech that was censored by Chinese authorities during the previous month, as well as summarize...
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Translation: Backlash to Wuhan Diary Author Fang Fang Continues
Beginning on January 25, writer and Wuhan local Fang Fang chronicled life from inside what has been called “the largest quarantine in human history.” As public anger was heating up over official opacity and inaction...
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Rights Lawyer Wang Quanzhang Reunited With Family After Almost Five Years
Rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was reunited with his family in Beijing on Monday, almost five years after his detention following the 2015 “Black Friday” or “709” crackdown, and more than two weeks after...
Read MoreBeijing’s Aggressive COVID-19 Diplomacy Tarnishes its Global Credibility
The ongoing global pandemic has added significant strain to U.S.-China relations, already highly tense before the emergence of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan late last year. With both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump facing domestic...
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Detentions, Site Closures Hit Archives of Censored COVID Content
Ever since the novel coronavirus emerged in China in late December, Chinese authorities have taken steps to control information about what is now a global pandemic responsible for 208,000 deaths worldwide. They have issued...
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Translation: Resident Sues Hubei Government Over Epidemic Response
With many in China still unconvinced that local and national governments did all they could, based on available information, to respond to and educate the public about the novel coronavirus, some are looking for a more suitable...
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