New Report Shows Shifting Chinese Investment in Latin America
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 MoreCDT Editors’ Picks: The Best of 2023
These 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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Tsinghua Law Professor Censored For Criticizing Self-censorship After Deadly Dormitory Fire
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 MoreQuote of the Day: Math Becomes Vehicle For Xi’s Personality Cult
An 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 MoreXinjiang Torture Trial Report, Migrant Worker Documentary Deleted
Ahead 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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Untitled, by lin wu (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read MoreGovernment Statistics Show Another Year of China’s Population Decline
China’s demographic changes have made headlines again this week, as the government released statistics showing that the country’s population has declined for a second year in a row. Pronatalist policies appear to have done...
Read MoreWord of the Week: “U-lock” (U型锁, U-xíngsuǒ)
This month, there have been a number of incidents—some major and some minor—that illustrate the “U-lock” mentality, a phrase that is sometimes used as shorthand to describe vitriolic xenophobic (particularly anti-Japanese)...
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Photo: Cours de calligraphie – L’ Université du 3ème age – Chengdu (Sichuan) PRC, by Gongashan
Cours de calligraphie – L’ Université du 3ème age – Chengdu (Sichuan) PRC, by...
Read MoreXi-branded Power Bank/Speaker Provides Two Kinds of Positive Energy
A top Party outlet has created a Xi Jinping Thought-themed combined Bluetooth speaker and power bank for distribution to cadres across the country. The contraption, clunkily titled the “‘Xi Jinping’s “The Governance of China”...
Read MoreTaiwanese Election Weathers Chinese Influence Efforts
Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lost its legislative majority in the country’s general election on Saturday, but its presidential candidate Lai Ching-te was elected with 40 percent of the vote. Chinese...
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Photo: Quanzhou, by Xiquinho Silva
Quanzhou, by Xiquinho Silva (CC BY 2.0)
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