Reports and other media articles over the past month detail the ways in which the technology and norms underpinning China’s surveillance industry are proliferating in other countries around the world. This week, Emily...
In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use of colonial boarding schools to indoctrinate and forcibly assimilate Tibetan children into Han Chinese culture and...
China is scheduled to host a large-scale “Victory Day” military parade on September 3 to mark the...
“After six years of reporting in Hong Kong, and at eight months pregnant, I’m very sad to be...
In the wake of early August’s spontaneous mass protests in the city of Jiangyou, Sichuan province...
Now what China is providing is not even a formal education. It's assimilation. [It's enforcing] CCP loyalty, and also teaching Xi Jinping Thought in the curriculum. So there's no room for formal knowledge to be learned. [...] It’s indoctrination."
— Dr. Gyal Lo, sociologist and educational expert, on the proliferation of colonial boarding schools in Tibet. Some of the Tibetan students in these boarding schools are as young as four.
In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use of colonial boarding schools to indoctrinate and forcibly assimilate Tibetan children into Han Chinese culture and society. (See CDT’s two-part interview with TAI’s Lhadon Tethong on this topic.) This May, TAI issued a follow-up report that looked more closely at the conditions and treatment of children in these schools, exposing widespread abuse and the use of boarding preschools for children as young as four. Much of the research into these schools has been conducted by Dr. Gyal Lo, a...
In the wake of early August’s spontaneous mass protests in the city of Jiangyou, Sichuan province...
The two back-to-back summits that U.S. President Donald Trump hosted over the past week, first...
Following rare mass protests that broke out in the city of Jiangyou in Sichuan province earlier...
In March, despite questionable jurisdiction, Xinjiang authorities hit Yunnan-based independent...
In an effort to combat falling birthrates, China’s central government has announced a plan to...
Recent articles have highlighted the ways in which various Chinese groups attempt to circumvent censorship in the liminal spaces of its enforcement. Across different domains, shifts in censorship capacity and communication methods provide opportunities to expand the limits of free speech, albeit sometimes only temporarily. As mentioned in a previous CDT post, the Made in China Journal’s Gateway to Global China Podcast featured comments by veteran Chinese journalist Fang Kecheng on the spectrum of externally and internally imposed censorship, and the creative ways in which he and his...
The recently concluded Humanoid Robot Games, a three-day event in Beijing, brought together over...
The struggle for a better life has long pushed many Chinese citizens to escape difficult...
A prominent Thai art gallery became embroiled in a scandal last week when it removed parts of an...
Recent revelations have ignited widespread outrage over a Telegram group in which tens of...
Knowing when and what to critique is a delicate matter for Chinese journalists. Party censorship...
In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use of colonial boarding schools to indoctrinate and forcibly assimilate Tibetan children into Han Chinese culture and society. (See CDT’s two-part interview with TAI’s Lhadon Tethong on this topic.) This May, TAI issued a follow-up report that looked more closely at the conditions and treatment of children in these schools, exposing widespread abuse and the use of boarding preschools for children as young as four. Much of the research into these schools has been conducted by Dr. Gyal Lo, a...
Following rare mass protests that broke out in the city of Jiangyou in Sichuan province earlier...
Recent revelations have ignited widespread outrage over a Telegram group in which tens of...
After Beijing granted authorization in December, construction on what would be the world’s largest...
A man who used an onboard emergency hammer to smash a hole in the window of a stalled train to...
June 30 marked the fifth anniversary of Beijing’s imposition of a heavy-handed national security...
In the wake of early August’s spontaneous mass protests in the city of Jiangyou, Sichuan province over official inaction in a severe bullying case, there has been unusually stringent online censorship of videos, photos, hashtags, articles, comments, and other content related to the case, the protests, and the heavy-handed police response to the protesters. A previous CDT post links to videos of the protests, and lists many of the hashtags that were censored on Weibo, including those that were scrubbed from the trending topics list, banned outright, or muted by being search- or...
The two back-to-back summits that U.S. President Donald Trump hosted over the past week, first...
Following rare mass protests that broke out in the city of Jiangyou in Sichuan province earlier...
In March, despite questionable jurisdiction, Xinjiang authorities hit Yunnan-based independent...
In an effort to combat falling birthrates, China’s central government has announced a plan to...
Last month, a Chinese man attacked a Japanese woman and her child in a subway station in Suzhou,...
Reports and other media articles over the past month detail the ways in which the technology and norms underpinning China’s surveillance industry are proliferating in other countries around the world. This week, Emily Baker-White at Forbes published an investigation finding that Intel, which recently agreed to give the U.S. government a ten-percent stake in the company, has been working with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms: Forbes has learned that Intel has little known partnerships with multiple Chinese surveillance firms, including Uniview — which landed on a U.S. sanctions list last...
In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use...
China is scheduled to host a large-scale “Victory Day” military parade on September 3 to mark the...
“After six years of reporting in Hong Kong, and at eight months pregnant, I’m very sad to be...
In the wake of early August’s spontaneous mass protests in the city of Jiangyou, Sichuan province...
The two back-to-back summits that U.S. President Donald Trump hosted over the past week, first...
“After six years of reporting in Hong Kong, and at eight months pregnant, I’m very sad to be leaving my colleagues, friends and the place I’ve called home,” wrote senior Bloomberg News reporter Rebecca Choong Wilkins in an X post on Saturday. As other outlets confirmed, the Hong Kong government refused to renew Choong Wilkins’ visa in what many journalists and media organizations have described as the latest blow to press freedom in the city. David Pierson at The New York Times provided more information on the incident: The journalist, Rebecca Choong Wilkins, was not given a reason for her...
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Updated at 07:53:00 PDT on June 5, 2025: This post has been updated to include information about...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic, and shed light on the propaganda machinery’s efforts to grapple with the outbreak. They were originally published between September and December, 2020 as the Minitrue Diary series, after the censorship and propaganda organs’ Orwellian online nickname 真理部 Zhēnlǐ bù, or "Ministry of...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
A recent WeChat post reveals that some Chinese schools and universities are using special software...
In the two weeks since the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China...
A pair of recently surfaced screenshots appear to offer unusual detail about a special month-long...
You Must Take Part in Revolution is a graphic novel by Badiucao, political cartoonist and former CDT contributor, and Melissa Chan, a journalist who in 2012 became the first reporter to be expelled from China in more than a decade. The book was conceived in the wake of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and follows the divergent paths of three friends in Hong Kong and Taiwan from their involvement in the protests through to 2035. CDT: I’m sure anyone reading CDT is familiar with each of you separately. How did the two of you come to join forces? Melissa Chan: I’d interviewed Badiucao for a...
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Surveys have shown that Xi Jinping’s hardline foreign policy is increasingly unpopular abroad....
Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of Government at Cornell University, joined CDT to discuss his...
Reports and other media articles over the past month detail the ways in which the technology and norms underpinning China’s surveillance industry are proliferating in other countries around the world. This week, Emily Baker-White at Forbes published an investigation finding that Intel, which recently agreed to give the U.S. government a ten-percent stake in the company, has been working with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms: Forbes has learned that Intel has little known partnerships with multiple Chinese surveillance firms, including Uniview — which landed on a U.S. sanctions list last...
“After six years of reporting in Hong Kong, and at eight months pregnant, I’m very sad to be...
The recently concluded Humanoid Robot Games, a three-day event in Beijing, brought together over...
The struggle for a better life has long pushed many Chinese citizens to escape difficult...
In an effort to combat falling birthrates, China’s central government has announced a plan to...
After Beijing granted authorization in December, construction on what would be the world’s largest...
Reports and other media articles over the past month detail the ways in which the technology and norms underpinning China’s surveillance industry are proliferating in other countries around the world. This week, Emily Baker-White at Forbes published an investigation finding that Intel, which recently agreed to give the U.S. government a ten-percent stake in the company, has been working with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms: Forbes has learned that Intel has little known partnerships with multiple Chinese surveillance firms, including Uniview — which landed on a U.S. sanctions list last...
In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use...
China is scheduled to host a large-scale “Victory Day” military parade on September 3 to mark the...
In the wake of early August’s spontaneous mass protests in the city of Jiangyou, Sichuan province...
The two back-to-back summits that U.S. President Donald Trump hosted over the past week, first...
Following rare mass protests that broke out in the city of Jiangyou in Sichuan province earlier...
Reports and other media articles over the past month detail the ways in which the technology and norms underpinning China’s surveillance industry are proliferating in other countries around the world. This week, Emily Baker-White at Forbes published an investigation finding that Intel, which recently agreed to give the U.S. government a ten-percent stake in the company, has been working with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms: Forbes has learned that Intel has little known partnerships with multiple Chinese surveillance firms, including Uniview — which landed on a U.S. sanctions list last...
Recent articles have highlighted the ways in which various Chinese groups attempt to circumvent...
The recently concluded Humanoid Robot Games, a three-day event in Beijing, brought together over...
In March, despite questionable jurisdiction, Xinjiang authorities hit Yunnan-based independent...
After Beijing granted authorization in December, construction on what would be the world’s largest...
By many accounts, China’s AI industry is closing the gap with the U.S. American export controls...
“After six years of reporting in Hong Kong, and at eight months pregnant, I’m very sad to be leaving my colleagues, friends and the place I’ve called home,” wrote senior Bloomberg News reporter Rebecca Choong Wilkins in an X post on Saturday. As other outlets confirmed, the Hong Kong government refused to renew Choong Wilkins’ visa in what many journalists and media organizations have described as the latest blow to press freedom in the city. David Pierson at The New York Times provided more information on the incident: The journalist, Rebecca Choong Wilkins, was not given a reason for her...
In the wake of early August’s spontaneous mass protests in the city of Jiangyou, Sichuan province...
The two back-to-back summits that U.S. President Donald Trump hosted over the past week, first...
Following rare mass protests that broke out in the city of Jiangyou in Sichuan province earlier...
The struggle for a better life has long pushed many Chinese citizens to escape difficult...
A prominent Thai art gallery became embroiled in a scandal last week when it removed parts of an...
At The New York Times on Monday, columnist Li Yuan describes how, as "wages stagnate and jobs disappear, the promise of upward social mobility is eroding, especially for those from modest backgrounds. For many […], the Chinese Dream no longer feels achievable." Similar themes have featured prominently on CDT in recent months, from uproar over the "4+4" fast-track for medical qualifications to commentary on the decline of former "golden ticket" degrees like computer science and the resurgent appeal of official careers. Other examples include gallows humor...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
On March 16, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that the Chinese economy was...
A recent WeChat post from oft-controversial entrepreneur, publicity hound, and philanthropist Chen...
Even before the lifting of China’s long-standing “zero-COVID” policy in early December of last...
In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use of colonial boarding schools to indoctrinate and forcibly assimilate Tibetan children into Han Chinese culture and society. (See CDT’s two-part interview with TAI’s Lhadon Tethong on this topic.) This May, TAI issued a follow-up report that looked more closely at the conditions and treatment of children in these schools, exposing widespread abuse and the use of boarding preschools for children as young as four. Much of the research into these schools has been conducted by Dr. Gyal Lo, a...
Following rare mass protests that broke out in the city of Jiangyou in Sichuan province earlier...
Recent revelations have ignited widespread outrage over a Telegram group in which tens of...
Last week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa met Chairman Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang for a summit marking 50 years of diplomatic ties between the E.U. and China. The affair demonstrated just how tense their relationship has become, battered by trade imbalances, export controls on critical minerals, and Russia’s war against Ukraine, as well as the unpredictability of U.S. global commitments. As von der Leyen told Xi, “We have reached an inflection point.” The summit was originally planned to last two days in Brussels, but it...
Two incidents this month highlight the ways in which local governments’ action on public health...
At the start of 2025, analysts reflected on the trajectory of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)...
An investigative report into the mass lead poisoning of hundreds of students and staff members at a kindergarten in Gansu province has revealed a host of safety and oversight violations, bribery and corruption, medical misconduct, and attempts to cover up the scandal. The unusually frank report, released by Gansu provincial officials after weeks of heated online discussion about the case, confirmed some of the public’s worst suspicions about the institutional failures that allowed the toxic lead exposure to persist for over a year. The incident began when the principal (surnamed Zhu) and...
On June 30, the performance artist and environmental activist known as Nut Brother (坚果兄弟), along...
Dalian Polytechnic University recently announced it would expel a student for what it termed her...
This week, many organizations and media outlets commemorated the tenth anniversary of the 709 (July 9) or "Black Friday" crackdown, a coordinated detention of more than 300 rights lawyers and activists in 2015 that coincided with a marked authoritarian shift in the early Xi Jinping era. CDT has published a roundup of tenth anniversary coverage and activities, including an online gathering of Chinese civil society groups, a joint statement and U.N. appeal by 31 international rights groups, and assessments of the impact of the crackdown on Chinese civil society, rights protection...
Wednesday is the tenth anniversary of the 709 (July 9) or "Black Friday" crackdown, a...
Amid recurrent China-Taiwan tensions and rising geopolitical instability, investigative journalist...
“After six years of reporting in Hong Kong, and at eight months pregnant, I’m very sad to be leaving my colleagues, friends and the place I’ve called home,” wrote senior Bloomberg News reporter Rebecca Choong Wilkins in an X post on Saturday. As other outlets confirmed, the Hong Kong government refused to renew Choong Wilkins’ visa in what many journalists and media organizations have described as the latest blow to press freedom in the city. David Pierson at The New York Times provided more information on the incident: The journalist, Rebecca Choong Wilkins, was not given a reason for her...
In the wake of early August’s spontaneous mass protests in the city of Jiangyou, Sichuan province...
The two back-to-back summits that U.S. President Donald Trump hosted over the past week, first...
Over the past two weeks, the Biden administration has issued a series of regulations intended to halt China’s development of advanced technologies. The measures restrict the export of advanced chips, design software, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment that are crucial to China’s military, AI, and supercomputing initiatives. While the impact of these regulations remains to be seen, this “major watershed” demonstrates a significant U.S. policy shift towards a more aggressive approach to China, and risks accelerating technological and economic decoupling between the two countries across...
Popular online writer Shen Maohua, who writes under the pen name Wei Zhou, is known for his...
As citizens revolt against never-ending lockdowns and local governments “resolutely struggle...
In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use of colonial boarding schools to indoctrinate and forcibly assimilate Tibetan children into Han Chinese culture and society. (See CDT’s two-part interview with TAI’s Lhadon Tethong on this topic.) This May, TAI issued a follow-up report that looked more closely at the conditions and treatment of children in these schools, exposing widespread abuse and the use of boarding preschools for children as young as four. Much of the research into these schools has been conducted by Dr. Gyal Lo, a...
China is scheduled to host a large-scale “Victory Day” military parade on September 3 to mark the...
A prominent Thai art gallery became embroiled in a scandal last week when it removed parts of an...
At The New York Times on Monday, columnist Li Yuan describes how, as "wages stagnate and jobs disappear, the promise of upward social mobility is eroding, especially for those from modest backgrounds. For many […], the Chinese Dream no longer feels achievable." Similar themes have featured prominently on CDT in recent months, from uproar over the "4+4" fast-track for medical qualifications to commentary on the decline of former "golden ticket" degrees like computer science and the resurgent appeal of official careers. Other examples include gallows humor...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
Reports and other media articles over the past month detail the ways in which the technology and norms underpinning China’s surveillance industry are proliferating in other countries around the world. This week, Emily Baker-White at Forbes published an investigation finding that Intel, which recently agreed to give the U.S. government a ten-percent stake in the company, has been working with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms: Forbes has learned that Intel has little known partnerships with multiple Chinese surveillance firms, including Uniview — which landed on a U.S. sanctions list last...
Recent articles have highlighted the ways in which various Chinese groups attempt to circumvent...
The recently concluded Humanoid Robot Games, a three-day event in Beijing, brought together over...
After Beijing granted authorization in December, construction on what would be the world’s largest hydropower dam has now begun. The site is located along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in southeastern Tibet, and it has drawn criticism from Tibetan rights groups concerned about social and ecological impacts, and downstream countries concerned about the potential weaponization of water flows. Helen Davidson at The Guardian summarized the massive scale of the proposed project: Construction of the world’s biggest hydropower megadam has begun, China’s premier has said, calling it the “project of the...
As China continues to tighten information flows in and out of the country, how reliable are...
An acidic waste spill by a Chinese company in Zambia has created a massive environmental crisis...
“After six years of reporting in Hong Kong, and at eight months pregnant, I’m very sad to be leaving my colleagues, friends and the place I’ve called home,” wrote senior Bloomberg News reporter Rebecca Choong Wilkins in an X post on Saturday. As other outlets confirmed, the Hong Kong government refused to renew Choong Wilkins’ visa in what many journalists and media organizations have described as the latest blow to press freedom in the city. David Pierson at The New York Times provided more information on the incident: The journalist, Rebecca Choong Wilkins, was not given a reason for her...
You Must Take Part in Revolution is a graphic novel by Badiucao, political cartoonist and former...
June 30 marked the fifth anniversary of Beijing’s imposition of a heavy-handed national security...
China is scheduled to host a large-scale “Victory Day” military parade on September 3 to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II (referred to in China as the “War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.”) China and Japan’s diverging narratives around the war have generated tension between the two countries. The Japanese government has reportedly asked foreign leaders to skip next week’s parade in Beijing due to its alleged anti-Japanese overtones, leading the Chinese government to lodge a protest in response. An article in the Global Times claimed that the Japanese...
You Must Take Part in Revolution is a graphic novel by Badiucao, political cartoonist and former...
Amid recurrent China-Taiwan tensions and rising geopolitical instability, investigative journalist...
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