The New York Times’ Eric Pfanner contrasts the cold reception given to Chinese telecom giant Huawei by U.S. lawmakers with the “warmer welcome” it has found in Europe: Given the typically close cooperation...
Read MoreAs U.S. lawmakers continue to scrutinize potential Chinese investments in North America, including this week’s report asserting that telecom giants Huawei and ZTE could threaten U.S. national security interests, Erica...
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Editor’s Note: From the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions...
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The following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by...
Read MoreThe Swedish Academy announced on Thursday that the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to China’s Mo Yan, “who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”. Mo said that he was...
Read MoreFor National Geographic, Ian Johnson takes stock of the current situation of China’s high-speed rail network and the many issues involved with its further development: The project symbolizes China’s 21st-century...
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, Leta Hong Fincher translates articles posted on the website of the All-China Women’s Federation, the state agency tasked with “protecting” women’s rights and...
Read MoreIf U.S. politics have taught us anything, it’s that it’s never too soon to start talking about the next election cycle. And while the masses in China have no hand in choosing their top leaders, Reuters’ Ben...
Read More“With the iPhone,” Slate’s Farhad Manjoo wrote this week, “Apple is building products at a level of quality that may be unprecedented in the history of mass manufacturing.” But Apple, of course, is...
Read MoreIn the early 1990s, thousands of impoverished rural residents in Henan Province gave blood at local clinics which offered compensation for their blood plasma. Their blood was drawn and mixed together in a common vat, and then...
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China Central Television (CCTV) will report from tomorrow’s award ceremony for the Nobel Prize in...
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China’s new aircraft carrier is easy an easy target for sardonic netizens. The latest incarnation...
Read MoreEditor’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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