Xu Zhiyong: New Citizens’ Movement

Vocal 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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China’s Power Predicaments

Today’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...

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SARFT Extends Internet Video Censorship

China’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...

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Forced Abortion Case Settled for $11,000

A 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...

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How Technology is Changing Chinese

Punning 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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