The Associated Press’ Isolda Morillo reports that the brother of Liu Xiaobo’s wife, Liu Xia, was arrested earlier this year. Liu Hui has been charged with fraud, but supporters claim that his prosecution is the...
Read MoreJust over a year after his attempt to seek shelter in the U.S. consulate in Chengdu triggered the fall of Chongqing Party head Bo Xilai, the city’s former police chief Wang Lijun is serving a 15-year sentence for...
Read MoreGlobal Times’ Chang Meng describes an ongoing campaign against road safety violations as typical of short-term, unsustainable crackdowns whose effects barely outlast the campaigns themselves. “You insane people,...
Read MoreAs the China expat twittersphere convulsed in response to Tudou co-founder Marc van der Chijs’ explanation of ‘Why I’m leaving China’, Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz described middle-class Chinese...
Read MoreThis week, cartoonists tackle political jargon, stifled media, and police brutality with magic and martial arts. The popular video game Fruit Ninja makes a guest appearance, too. Click any image to launch the gallery view....
Read MoreThe following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Central Propaganda Department: With regards to analysis and discussion of the new price fixing...
Read MoreWhile the U.S. is set to withdraw 34,000 troops from Afghanistan by next year, some Chinese foreign policy wonks have been pushing for China to “march west” to fill the void that the U.S.’s “pivot to...
Read MoreFor Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson writes that several recent studies have firmed up the link between pollution and birth defects in China and beyond: Tong Zhu, now a Princeton Global Scholar, together with research...
Read MoreAccording to the “2012 Government Microblog Evaluation Report” [zh], the Chinese state drastically increased its use of microblogging platforms to interact with the public last year. Caixin summarizes the government...
Read MoreFrom the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the CDT series Directives from the Ministry of Truth (真理部指令). Central Propaganda Department: Issues which must be fully...
Read MoreAP has confirmed the authenticity of a photo distributed online showing First Lady Peng Liyuan serenading People’s Liberation Army troops in Tiananmen Square after the crackdown on protesters in June 1989. CDT posted the...
Read MoreAndrew Jacobs of The New York Times reports that China’s free-spending government elites – and the businesses that cater to them – are feeling the squeeze under new president Xi Jinping’s austerity...
Read MoreJames McGregor, a businessman and former Wall Street Journal reporter who has spent more than 20 years in China, published a book last year about the dangers of China’s model of authoritarian capitalism. The domination of...
Read MoreAt Reuters, Hui Li and Ben Blanchard describe “the dark corner of China’s medical system” to which migrant workers are forced to turn for treatment: A one-room shack with a single, bare light bulb on a...
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