Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” Sparks Debates About Censorship, History, and Cinematic Adaptations
Film censorship has long plagued China’s creative arts industry and stifled foreign products seeking domestic Chinese audiences. The shrinking space for artistic expression, along with rising nationalism, has exposed artists and...
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Weibo Essay Comparing Party-State’s Economic Policy to Gangsterism Censored
Weibo censors deleted an essay blaming China’s stagnating economic growth on “a failure of political reform” that also compared the Party-state to gangsters and “underworld bosses.” The essay by popular blogger “Mr. Liu Dake”...
Read MoreQuote of the Day: “‘Uniform’ Has Been Transformed From a Noun Into a Verb”
A recent altercation captured on video shows an off-duty, uniformed toll-booth employee in Yulin, Shaanxi province, berating a truck driver at a restaurant and trying to force him to eat food from a garbage can. The disturbing...
Read MoreDeteriorating Security Environment in Pakistan Threatens Chinese Nationals, Investments
On Tuesday, a suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan killed five Chinese engineers and their Pakistani driver. This is the third attack against Chinese interests and nationals in Pakistan over the past week, underscoring their...
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U.S., U.K. Impose Sanctions on Chinese State-Affiliated Hackers
Xi Jinping’s efforts to point the way forward on China becoming a “major cyber-power” have met growing resistance from foreign governments. On Monday, the U.S. and U.K. announced sanctions and filed criminal charges against a...
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Words of the Week: Xi Jinping’s Penchant for “Pointing the Way Forward”
The use of the standard Party formulation of Xi Jinping “pointing the way forward” on various policy issues has become so commonplace that the phrase has become an object of satire, a way of mocking Xi’s cult of personality and...
Read More“Compass-in-Chief”: The 240+ Topics Xi Jinping Has “Pointed The Way Forward” On
Among Xi Jinping’s many Party-bestowed titles and hundreds of banned netizen nicknames is one that points to his penchant for claiming personal leadership over and insight into seemingly everything: “Compass-in-Chief.” The...
Read MoreDiverse Sinophone Groups Voice Support for Gaza
Israel’s war in Gaza has elicited increasing attention from the Sinophone world, as five months of violence have led to the deaths of 32,000 Palestinians, an imminent famine in northern Gaza, and little progress on freeing...
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A Farewell to Mic-Snatching, Arm-Grabbing, Bathroom-Barricading Journalists
A number of recent events have brought renewed attention to the diminishing role of investigative journalists in China, and to the many impediments they face in their work. Following this month’s announcement of the elimination...
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