As of June 4, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Tiananmen Continued: Terms related to the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, known in Chinese simply as...
Read MoreWhile public commemorations of the military crackdown on June 4, 1989 were strictly banned inside China, an estimated 150,000 people gathered for a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong, despite heavy rains. From Reuters: In Hong Kong,...
Read MoreThe New York Times’ Tim Arango and Clifford Krauss report that, ten years after the U.S.-led invasion, China is buying up almost half of Iraq’s oil output, taking 1.5 million of a total 3.5 million barrels per day....
Read MoreWith China’s film market poised to surpass America’s as the world’s largest, efforts to please Chinese audiences have become standard protocol for Hollywood filmmakers. Rory Carroll reports at The Guardian:...
Read MoreThe form for readers to submit tips on blocked keywords will be available at the bottom of all future English Sensitive Words posts. The form itself is in Chinese. In April 2011, CDT Chinese began tracking keywords blocked from...
Read MoreIn partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, “Propaganda Past” is now featured in our Censorship Vault series. All translations in this series are by Rogier Creemers. New series: Propaganda Past One of my...
Read MoreAs China prepares to construct its own space laboratory next year, a crew of three Chinese astronauts is preparing to blast off in the Shenzhou X spacecraft for a preliminary mission this month. From the South China Morning...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reports that four Chinese companies are considering IPOs on U.S. stock exchanges, possibly reopening a market that has been shut since 2011 amid concerns over accounting irregularities and fraud: Travel...
Read MoreChina urged North Korea to cease its nuclear and missile tests during a meeting with a military envoy in Beijing last month, a source tells Reuters, who described the meeting as “terse:” Beijing tried to convince...
Read MoreAs Chinese President Xi Jinping prepares to meet with American counterpart Barack Obama in California this week, The Wall Street Journal’s Jeremy Page and Colleen Nelson report that the summit reflects China’s desire...
Read MoreThe death toll from a fire at a Jilin slaughterhouse on Monday has risen to at least 120, prompting the detention of a senior official at the plant’s operator, anger on the part of bereaved relatives, and a call from the...
Read MoreFor his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab honors of the memory of June 4, 1989. In his cartoon, three torches reach up and catch alight an image of a fire extinguisher in Tiananmen Square....
Read MoreThe Obama administration must make stronger efforts not just to “hedge” China but to recognize its core interests while avoiding sensitive issues that fuel resentment, according to a New York Times op-ed by former...
Read MoreIn 2012, CDT identified 118 terms blocked from Weibo search results around the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. Many of those terms are now blocked again. There is also overlap between this list and Jason Ng’s...
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