A Xinhua News editorial laments the victory of the Liberal Democratic Party in last weekend’s election and the imminent elevation of Shinzo Abe as Japan’s new prime minister: LDP leader Shinzo Abe was hawkish on the...
Read MoreWeeks after the 18th Party Congress, Sina weibo censors seem to have settled on a new censorship approach to delay in showing sensitive searches . From Feichangdao: The screenshots below show that, two weeks after the...
Read MoreWith the government cracking down on apocalypse rumors this week, rounding up members of an outlawed cult known as the Church of Almighty God, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos explores the Communist Party’s uneasy...
Read MoreAmong a slew of other new appointments this week, Xinhua reported that Hu Jintao protégé “Little Hu” Chunhua is to be the new Party chief of Guangdong province. His time at the helm of the economic powerhouse is...
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Central Propaganda Department: Li Junwen, the people’s representative of a certain district...
Read MoreAt a recent event at the Asia Society in New York, Ambassador Gary Locke spoke with Asia Society’s Orville Schell and George Stephanopolous of ABC News about the current status of U.S.-China relations and the new...
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Guangdong Propaganda Department: On November 30, the Public Security Bureau of Xiangqiao District,...
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Central Propaganda Department: In the near future, Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily, and other...
Read MoreWhen CCTV aired V for Vendetta, uncut, last Friday, netizens thought it was a sign that reform is truly on its way. They were a bit crushed, then, to read a signed article in Tuesday’s People’s Daily entitled “The Internet...
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In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Read MoreIn Behind the Red Door, Richard Burger examines various aspects of sex in China, both throughout history and in the resurgence of sexual freedom currently underway. From Mara Hvistendahl at Los Angeles Review of Books: [… T]he...
Read MoreLast week, the English-language China Daily newspaper launched its Africa edition in order to break a perceived western monopoly in Africa-related journalism. From Harry Verhoeven and Iginio Gagliardone at CNN: As was...
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The following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by...
Read MoreAn editorial at Caixin welcomes Beijing’s new emphasis on battling corruption, but argues that these efforts are doomed without effective rule of law. The introduction of a sunshine law enjoys wide public approval, and...
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