China Rallies Friends, Stifles Human Rights Criticism at U.N. Universal Periodic Review
This week, China underwent its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the U.N. This ritual is a...
Read More“Thirteen Lives Don’t Even Merit a Hashtag”: Scant Media Coverage of Henan Dorm Fire Provokes Ire Online
Two 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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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...
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