China Now Has the Most Global Diplomatic Posts, Overtaking U.S.
According to the Lowy Institutes’ 2019 Global Diplomacy Index, China now operates more global diplomatic posts—including embassies and consulates—than any country, including the U.S. which now takes second place. BBC News...
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Translation: “A Great Undercurrent Hiding Beneath the Likes”
Last week on Matters News, user KeketuohaiDeXue (可可托海的雪) published an essay on online public opinion in China. The author argues that it is difficult to glean an accurate understanding of a nation’s collective opinion in...
Read MoreSinopsis: The European Parliament China Friendship Cluster
The following article has been reposted from Project Sinopsis, with permission: Repurposing Democracy: The European Parliament China Friendship Cluster Paper presented at the workshop “Mapping China’s footprint in the world II”,...
Read MoreNew Leaks Further Uncover Xinjiang Detentions and Surveillance
Last week, The New York Times published its report on leaked documents including 403 pages of speeches, directives, and internal reports shedding new light on the evolution and execution of the ongoing mass detention campaign in...
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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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