Balloon Precipitates Full-Blown (Critics Hold “Inflated”) Diplomatic Crisis
by Alexander Boyd | Feb 3, 2023
A stray balloon has precipitated a full-blown diplomatic crisis in U.S.-China relations. Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled a planned trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping after NBC News reported that...
Read MoreFormer Chinese Bookseller’s Wife Held Under “Exit Ban”
by Alexander Boyd | Feb 2, 2023
The wife of a prominent former Chinese bookseller is being prevented from leaving China until her husband returns to the country to answer questions about his alleged political writings. Yu Miao ran Shanghai’s famed liberal...
Read MoreTranslation: My Hometown Survived the Pandemic
by Cindy Carter | Feb 1, 2023
Even before the lifting of China’s long-standing “zero-COVID” policy in early December of last year, there were signs of a surge in Omicron cases nationwide. Since then, China has experienced a tsunami of infections—first in...
Read MoreIncreasing Calls to Release Detained “A4” Protesters
by Cindy Carter | Jan 27, 2023
Two months after the spontaneous nationwide protests that broke out in response to a deadly fire in Urumqi and draconian pandemic controls, an unknown number of peaceful protesters remain in detention on charges of “picking...
Read MoreUyghurs Challenge the World’s Selective Memories of Genocide on Holocaust Remembrance Day
by Arthur Kaufman | Jan 27, 2023
January 27 is designated by the U.N. as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, to commemorate the Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide. The world’s resolve...
Read MoreWomen Balk at Chinese Government Plans to Raise Birth Rate
by Arthur Kaufman | Jan 24, 2023
Last week, the Chinese government announced that the country’s population had declined for the first time in decades, setting off a cacophony of alarm bells among those concerned about China’s demographic destiny. Chinese women,...
Read MoreTranslation: Li Zhuang’s “Trip to Feng County, Where Shackled Woman Remains Under Strict Guard”
by Cindy Carter | Jan 24, 2023
It has been nearly one year since a viral video of a woman shackled and chained in a freezing shed in Dongji Village (Feng County, Jiangsu Province) provoked widespread outrage among the Chinese public and triggered an...
Read MoreOne Decade On, the BRI and Its Media Backers Struggle to “Tell China’s Story Well”
by Arthur Kaufman | Jan 23, 2023
In 2013, Xi Jinping introduced the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and called on state media to “tell China’s story well.” Almost ten years later, the CCP’s external propaganda apparatus is struggling to present a positive image...
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