Xinhua reported on Friday that a PLA Navy frigate had run aground on a reef in disputed waters in the South China Sea: Chinese navy on Friday was conducting rescue mission of a frigate, who ran aground in the waters of...
Read MoreSince Deng Xiaoping began the policy of economic reform and opening-up, Chinese migrant workers have become the biggest labour force in whole world. Zhao Shilin, now the owner of a flower shop on the Street of Eternal Happiness...
Read MoreVocal dissident and rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong published a blog post translated New Citizens Movement on May 29th. In it, he discussed the nature of “the New Citizen” and the necessity in China of a movement based on...
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Novelist Liu Zhenyun, Mao Dun literary prize winner and author of My Name Is Liu Yuejin, delivered...
Read MoreIn recent years, much attention has been focused on China’s increasingly influential role in various African countries and the country invests large sums of money in the continent. But China’s investments are...
Read MoreToday’s New York Times ran an op-ed by scholar and CCP policy advisor Minghao Zhao identifying five “power predicaments” that China must acknowledge as its influence in the world order increases: The...
Read MoreChina’s State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) has released a mandate [zh] aimed at extending the branch’s reach of control over Internet-based original content. A Xinhua news brief reports: The...
Read MoreNow that the protests over a proposed molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan have been resolved, observers are focusing on how government controls over information sparked or exacerbated the situation and on the long-term...
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In the June 20 Global Times piece “China Became a Kind of Democracy Long Ago” (中国早已进入民主国家的范畴),...
Read MoreChina Daily reported on Tuesday that, according to government figures, nearly ten billion tons of industrial wastewater and domestic sewage were poured directly into Guangdong’s rivers last year: More than 9.5 billion tons...
Read MoreAir quality in Beijing is an increasingly well known problem, but trust in official data is low and the US Embassy’s @BeijingAir Twitter service has its own shortcomings. A pair of Carnegie Mellon University graduate...
Read MoreA Shaanxi local government has reached a 70,600 yuan settlement with Deng Jiyuan and Feng Jianmei, who were illegally forced to have a late-term abortion when they were unable to pay a similarly illegal 40,000 yuan...
Read MorePunning is a long established part of Chinese culture which has found fertile new soil online. Often, the focus falls on wordplay used to circumvent political censorship, of which examples can be found in CDT’s Grass Mud...
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