(Some of) China’s Netizens Eye U.S. Presidential Debate
In a televised presidential debate laden with dubious claims from both sides last night, initial polls declared Republican Mitt Romney the clear victor. Taiwan’s Next Media Animation agreed: Xinhua offered a rather drier...
Read MoreCentral Committee Notice Concerning Strengthening Propaganda and Ideology Work, July 28, 1989
As CDT readers know, we regularly post propaganda orders which we call Directives from the Ministry of Truth. These posts are only possible because of the Internet; journalists leak the orders online and CDT verifies them before...
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Censorship Vault: 18th Party Congress and More
Editor’s Note: From the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions...
Read MoreAi Weiwei: “They Are Weak”
German magazine Der Spiegel interviews artist and dissident Ai Weiwei about his current status, following the rejection of his appeal in a tax evasion case: SPIEGEL: You’re expected in Washington for the opening of a major...
Read MoreLandslide Buries School in Yunnan
As China is still trying to recover from several recent natural disasters, the BBC reports that a landslide in Yunnan Province buried a school and two other houses: Nineteen people, 18 of them children, were buried when the...
Read MoreChina Banks Pull Out of Meetings in Japan
CDT previously reported on the possible economic strain from the Diaoyu Island dispute between China and Japan. As Chinese surveillance ships arrive in the region, the tensions between the two nations continue to escalate. The...
Read MoreThe Great Migration: Chinese Workers Return Home
For Marketplace, Rob Schmitz visits with migrant laborers who have returned home to cities and towns in China’s interior from coastal factories, following an upsurge in investment there: Zhang Xianjun just returned from a...
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Netizens Unmoved by “National Day Editorial”
Correction: Year of last translated editorial title mentioned in second paragraph added. In honor...
Read MoreChina Firm Sues Obama Over Blocked Wind Farm Deal
Last Friday, President Obama blocked investment by the Chinese firm Ralls in a wind farm in Oregon located near a Naval facility. This was the first such presidential order barring foreign investment since 1990. From Reuters:...
Read MoreWord of the Week: Panbi
Editor’s Note: The CDT Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to...
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Censorship Instructions for Online Forums
Weibo wasn’t the only social media platform punished after coup rumors spread this March. An...
Read MoreWill China Get Old Before Getting Rich?
Decades after the enactment of the one-child policy in the 1970s, the Chinese government is now trying to tackle the problem of a fast-aging population. From Darren Wee at The Guardian: Filial piety is the first of the five...
Read MoreWhistleblowing Retired Official Dies in Custody
A retired official in Hunan was cast into the Party’s notorious shuanggui disciplinary system in August after accusing his successor of embezzling public funds. A month later, Wang Zhongping was dead, and his family...
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