Xinjiang City Turns Lunar New Year Tradition Into Propaganda Quiz
A Xi Jinping-themed twist on a Chinese Lunar New Year tradition drew incredulous reactions from Twitter users after it was shared by famed dissident Twitter account @whyyoutouzhele. “Lantern riddles” are a staple of the Lantern...
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Balloon Precipitates Full-Blown (Critics Hold “Inflated”) Diplomatic Crisis
A stray balloon has precipitated a full-blown diplomatic crisis in U.S.-China relations. Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled a planned trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping after NBC News reported that...
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Former Chinese Bookseller’s Wife Held Under “Exit Ban”
The wife of a prominent former Chinese bookseller is being prevented from leaving China until her husband returns to the country to answer questions about his alleged political writings. Yu Miao ran Shanghai’s famed liberal...
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Translation: My Hometown Survived the Pandemic
Even before the lifting of China’s long-standing “zero-COVID” policy in early December of last year, there were signs of a surge in Omicron cases nationwide. Since then, China has experienced a tsunami of infections—first in...
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Increasing Calls to Release Detained “A4” Protesters
Two months after the spontaneous nationwide protests that broke out in response to a deadly fire in Urumqi and draconian pandemic controls, an unknown number of peaceful protesters remain in detention on charges of “picking...
Read MoreUyghurs Challenge the World’s Selective Memories of Genocide on Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27 is designated by the U.N. as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, to commemorate the Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide. The world’s resolve...
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Women Balk at Chinese Government Plans to Raise Birth Rate
Last week, the Chinese government announced that the country’s population had declined for the first time in decades, setting off a cacophony of alarm bells among those concerned about China’s demographic destiny. Chinese women,...
Read MoreTranslation: Li Zhuang’s “Trip to Feng County, Where Shackled Woman Remains Under Strict Guard”
It has been nearly one year since a viral video of a woman shackled and chained in a freezing shed in Dongji Village (Feng County, Jiangsu Province) provoked widespread outrage among the Chinese public and triggered an...
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