Translation: Notes From an Account Bombing, by Mimiyana
Last month, as authorities were scrambling to contain any shred of unauthorized information or public backlash to the official response to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, a new round of “account bombing” (炸号) swept...
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China Announces Sweeping Expulsion of American Journalists
A series of escalating blows between China and the U.S. continued on Tuesday with Chinese measures including a sweeping revocation of press credentials for American journalists for three major U.S. newspapers: The New York...
Read MoreTranslation: “An Urgent Call Regarding the Epidemic”
At the height of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, Zhao Shilin, a retired Minzu University professor and former member of the Central Committee and Deputy Director of the Culture and Arts Commission, issued two public...
Read MoreCanadian Parliamentary Report Describes Chinese Interference
On Thursday, Canada’s National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians published a heavily redacted version of its annual report, originally submitted to the government last August. The document consists of...
Read MoreTranslation: Essay by Missing Property Tycoon Ren Zhiqiang
Real estate tycoon turned commentator Ren Zhiqiang, known as “the Cannon” for his online outspokenness, was one of the few liberal “Big V” microbloggers remaining on Weibo after a 2013 rumor crackdown...
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Minitrue: Do Not Transmit Video and Images of Law Enforcements Actions Around COVID-19 Prevention
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan in January, and its subsequent spread...
Read MoreXi Jinping’s Wuhan Visit Completes Return to Center Stage
On Tuesday, Xi Jinping visited Wuhan, epicenter of the now global COVID-19 pandemic, in a show of official confidence that the worst of the outbreak in China has passed. For years, official rhetoric has emphasized Xi’s...
Read MoreNetizen Creativity Preserves Censored Interview With Wuhan Doctor
This week, Chinese magazine People (Renwu 人物) published an interview with Ai Fen, the director of the emergency department at Wuhan Central Hospital. In the interview, which was quickly censored, Ai detailed her censure by...
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U.S. Lawmakers, Fair Labor Association Condemn Forced Labor of Uyghurs
Following widespread reports of forced labor by Uyghurs in Xinjiang and other parts of China, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers submitted a bill to restrict imports from Xinjiang. Austin Ramzy of The New York Times reports:...
Read MoreDiverging Disease Controls Highlight Conflict of Political, Economic, Medical Priorities
On Friday, China reported only a single new COVID-19 infection outside the outbreak’s epicenter of Wuhan, which saw 74 new cases, with the additional exception of 24 cases found in people returning from abroad. The same...
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