Tibetan self-immolations have been the topic of a political, religious and scholarly debate, in which the Dalai Lama has decided to remain neutral. On Saturday September 29, a man in Qinghai province set himself alight, just...
Read MoreAt The Washington Post, U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Digital TV and The World presents a series of interviews with passers-by on America, Sino-U.S. relations, and how China’s rise will affect them. “In my...
Read MoreIn 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 MoreAs 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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Editor’s Note: From the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions...
Read MoreGerman 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 MoreAs 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 MoreCDT 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 MoreFor 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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Correction: Year of last translated editorial title mentioned in second paragraph added. In honor...
Read MoreLast 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 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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Weibo wasn’t the only social media platform punished after coup rumors spread this March. An...
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