HK Protesters Vow to Keep Pressing Following Pro-democracy Election Victory
At The New York Times, Keith Bradsher, Austin Ramzy, and Tiffany May report on the overwhelming victory for pro-democracy candidates in Sunday’s local district council elections in Hong Kong: It was a pointed rebuke...
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Netizen Voices: “Cultural Fusion Should be Based on Mutual Consent”
Amid an ongoing crackdown on Uyghur culture in Xinjiang that has been called an effort to “re-engineer” the Uyghur identity and as a form of “cultural genocide,” state-run new media outlet The Paper (澎湃) this week tweeted a...
Read MoreFormer U.K. Consulate Staffer Alleges Torture While Detained in China
Simon Cheng, the 29-year-old Hong Kong resident formerly employed by the U.K. consulate who was detained in China for 15 days in August and accused in state-affiliated media of “soliciting prostitutes,” has now...
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Translation: “The ‘Coral Reef’ Below the Ship of Chinese Internet Censorship”
In August, Matters News published an interview with CDT founder and Editor-in-Chief Xiao Qiang. The interview, by freelance writer Xiran, examines the events and motivations that led Xiao to become a human rights activist and...
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NYT: Leaked Documents Suggest Dissent on Xinjiang Detentions
On Saturday, The New York Times published a report by Austin Ramzy and Chris Buckley based on 403 pages of leaked documents on China’s ongoing mass detention campaign in Xinjiang. The 24 documents include speeches by Xi...
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Netizen Voices: “Hang in There Hong Kong,” Mainlanders Stand With You
As protests in Hong Kong continue past the five-month mark, online support for the city’s pro-democracy movement has continued to pour in from various corners of mainland China despite efforts by government censors to...
Read MoreTikTok Boosts U.S. Lobbying Amid New Censorship Claims
Short video-sharing platform TikTok has been enjoying explosive growth in its mostly young international audience. It has been described in The Washington Post as “the first Chinese app to truly pierce the global Internet...
Read MoreWorld Bank Cuts Back Xinjiang Project Following Abuse Allegations
At The New York Times, Alan Rappeport reports that the World Bank this week announced it would scale down development work in the Xinjiang region following allegations that funds from a $50 million education project loan granted...
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