A recent question posted to the Q&A site Zhihu may have been intended to elicit praise about China’s state of political affairs, but has instead become the latest telling example of the pessimistic political mood in...
Read MoreOn Tuesday, the Hong Kong government released a 110-page consultation document that outlined plans for yet another national security law. This homegrown law joins a long list of recent initiatives by the government to increase...
Read MoreOur latest quote of the day is taken from a viral poem scrawled on a wall in Xi’an titled “My Rights” by the anonymous poet “Sowing Seeds Alone.” The poem is a call to protect the rights of “pedestrians” against the domination...
Read MoreA fire in Xinyu, Jiangxi Province killed 39 people and injured nine more on Wednesday, January 24. It was the second deadly blaze to claim student lives in a single week: a fire in an elementary school in Henan killed 13...
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This week, China underwent its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the U.N. This ritual is a...
Read MoreTwo deadly school fires in China within the last week have led to a surge of online criticism of inadequate fire safety measures, as well as complaints about online censorship, government callousness, and a dearth of media...
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In a small twist to the Chinese foreign minister’s tradition of making their first diplomatic visit of the new year to Africa, two countries from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) were added to Wang Yi’s tour: Brazil and...
Read MoreThese are CDT editors’ selections of their favorite posts from CDT and elsewhere around the web over the course of 2023: Sophie Beach CDT Pick: Translation: The Women of “Salt Town,” by Cindy Carter I found this...
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The death of 13 elementary schoolers in a dormitory blaze has sparked outrage across China, not least due to a marked dearth of independent reporting on the disaster. The lack of media coverage of the blaze is highly reminiscent...
Read MoreAn extraordinarily sycophantic question posed in a Shanghai math exam is CDT’s quote of the day: “Thus far, Volumes One, Two, Three, and Four of ‘Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China’ have been published. If these four volumes...
Read MoreAhead of the fourth United Nations Universal Periodic Review of China’s human rights record on January 23, the Chinese government is taking pains to muster influence and control narratives on its economic development, treatment...
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