China’s Coal Output Falls for First Time This Century

by Samuel Wade | Jan 27, 2015

China’s National Coal Association reports that the country’s coal production fell 2.1%...

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Privatized Housing and Political Legitimacy in China

by Samuel Wade | Jan 27, 2015

At The New York Times, Ian Johnson talks to Luigi Tomba of the Australian National University...

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Minitrue: Mengniu Dairy’s Deshelved Drink

by Josh Rudolph | Jan 27, 2015

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...

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“Little Cause For Optimism” in Shadow of Pu Zhiqiang Case

by Samuel Wade | Jan 26, 2015

At The Guardian, rights lawyer Teng Biao writes that “China’s civil society has little cause...

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Squeeze Put on Hong Kong Press Freedom

by Josh Rudolph | Jan 26, 2015

Hong Kong’s 2014 pro-democracy protests came at the end of year that the HK Journalists...

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Chinese Human Rights at Davos: Don’t Ask, Won’t Tell

by Samuel Wade | Jan 26, 2015

Foreign Policy’s Isaac Stone Fish found several conversations at the World Economic Forum in...

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Overseas Chinese Students’ “Patriotism Abroad”

by Josh Rudolph | Jan 26, 2015

In 2012, China became the world’s largest source of overseas students, and the number of...

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Minitrue: China Starts Blocking Foreign VPNs

by Anne Henochowicz | Jan 26, 2015

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...

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Zhan Jiang: China Leads the World in Media Corruption

by Sophie Beach | Jan 25, 2015

With an official investigation into 21st Century Business Herald, and the detention of its...

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Photo: Sights while wandering Guangzhou, by Gavin Anderson

by Sophie Beach | Jan 25, 2015

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Premier Li: Don’t Worry About China Slowdown

by Grace | Jan 23, 2015

In his keynote address at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Chinese Premier Li...

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Video: “Mapping China’s Immigrant Investors”

by Josh Rudolph | Jan 23, 2015

CDT has translated a video by iRead Magazine and Ming’en Media on the outbound flow of...

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Photo: Peaceful Mountains (Xinjiang, China), by t-chan

by Josh Rudolph | Jan 23, 2015

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Xinjiang Arrests Nearly Doubled in 2014

by Josh Rudolph | Jan 23, 2015

In May of last year, Chinese authorities launched a “year-long, ultra-tough,...

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Great Firewall: “Upgrading for Cyberspace Sovereignty”

by Sophie Beach | Jan 23, 2015

This past week has seen a number of foreign websites and online services disrupted in China....

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