In recent days, the capture of two Chinese soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine has highlighted the role of foreign fighters in that conflict. In a post to his X account, Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations for the new national AI champion DeepSeek. At Rest of World, Kinling Lo noted its integration in cars, smartphones,...
This week, 20-year-old American influencer Darren Watkins Jr., better known as IShowSpeed,...
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake recorded on Friday near the Burmese city of Mandalay has killed at...
While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has...
In the past, I’ve often felt flustered when dealing with public opinion. [...] Now that I understand DeepSeek’s formidable capabilities, like quickly picking the crucial points of public opinion from the flood of online data and performing quantitative analysis of public opinion trends, I can be more confident in follow-up response work, and less stressed.”
— A grassroots propaganda worker from Shenzhen, after completing a training course on how to use DeepSeek AI to improve local government "public opinion response" work
In recent days, the capture of two Chinese soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine has highlighted the role of foreign fighters in that conflict. In a post to his X account, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that there might be growing numbers of Chinese fighting on the Russian side. Officials in Beijing responded by calling Ukraine’s claim “totally unfounded” and denying that there are significant numbers of Chinese citizens fighting on Russia’s behalf. The first two captured Chinese citizens. Today, investigators from the Security Service of Ukraine spoke with...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has...
Despite troubling jurisdictional issues, the Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau in...
This year, the theme of World Consumer Rights Day on March 15 was “a just transition to...
Following China’s unannounced naval exercises off the coast of Australia late last month, there...
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing have found themselves in the crosshairs of the Chinese government over a multibillion-dollar port deal, which received heavy criticism in state media for supposedly undermining China’s national interests. This external pressure has stalled the deal and raised questions about the extent of Beijing’s influence over Hong Kong companies and Chinese-owned ports around the world, notably near the Panama canal. Jeffie Lam, Denise Tsang, and Lam Ka-sing from the South China Morning Post provided more details and first reported that,...
The Open Technology Fund published a report earlier this month highlighting the rise of...
Chinese tech giant Huawei is embroiled in a major corruption scandal, in which the company is...
An acidic waste spill by a Chinese company in Zambia has created a massive environmental crisis...
A new report by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) explores the growing demand for human-powered...
Last week, a Chinese PhD student at University College London was found guilty by a British court...
Last week, Chinese state media reported that Wu Yingjie, the former Party chief of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), pleaded guilty to bribery charges during a trial in Beijing. Wu joins a long and growing list of officials swept up in Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign. While Wu played a key role in carrying out the government’s hardline policies in Tibet, analysts doubt that his conviction will improve the human rights situation in the region. Tibetan Review provided more details about Wu’s prosecution and role in Tibetan affairs: The [China Daily] report cited prosecutors as saying...
Last week, a Chinese PhD student at University College London was found guilty by a British court...
Convening next week for its annual gathering, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...
Thailand’s government deported 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China in a secretive overnight...
Following increased attention to Southeast Asia’s online scam industry, especially since the...
Friday marked the 25th International Mother Language Day, a UNESCO observance for promoting the...
In recent days, the capture of two Chinese soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine has highlighted the role of foreign fighters in that conflict. In a post to his X account, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that there might be growing numbers of Chinese fighting on the Russian side. Officials in Beijing responded by calling Ukraine’s claim “totally unfounded” and denying that there are significant numbers of Chinese citizens fighting on Russia’s behalf. The first two captured Chinese citizens. Today, investigators from the Security Service of Ukraine spoke with...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has...
Despite troubling jurisdictional issues, the Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau in...
This year, the theme of World Consumer Rights Day on March 15 was “a just transition to...
Following China’s unannounced naval exercises off the coast of Australia late last month, there...
In recent days, the capture of two Chinese soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine has highlighted the role of foreign fighters in that conflict. In a post to his X account, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that there might be growing numbers of Chinese fighting on the Russian side. Officials in Beijing responded by calling Ukraine’s claim “totally unfounded” and denying that there are significant numbers of Chinese citizens fighting on Russia’s behalf. The first two captured Chinese citizens. Today, investigators from the Security Service of Ukraine spoke with...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake recorded on Friday near the Burmese city of Mandalay has killed at...
While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has...
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing have found themselves in the...
The Open Technology Fund published a report earlier this month highlighting the rise of...
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...
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...
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 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...
On September 12, 2003, John Battelle published the first post on chinadigitaltimes.net: Here’s what a Google Search on “china weblog” yields, I’m looking forward to seeing ours at the top soon! China’s online population at the start of that year was nearly 60 million. Ten years later, it was fast approaching 600 million, and now, after 20, it is well over a billion. This new completely revised and hugely expanded update to our ebook series, formerly known as “the Grass Mud Horse Lexicon,” aims to capture something of the enormous explosion of online speech that accompanied this growth, with...
In 2014, Leta Hong Fincher published her first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender...
Starting in March 2008, Tibetans across the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Qinghai, Gansu, and...
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...
Evidence of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang has...
While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has endured: the existence of an elevated official class, to which fiercely contested examinations offer an entryway. A pair of recent essays on WeChat discuss the social, economic, and other effects of China’s “officialdom complex.” The first, by the public account Ni Ren, describes the official system as an ossifying force causing the misdirection of human talent and economic resources, and calls for its reform: Becoming an official has always been something that countless people in China dream of. From...
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing have found themselves in the...
Chinese tech giant Huawei is embroiled in a major corruption scandal, in which the company is...
This year, the theme of World Consumer Rights Day on March 15 was “a just transition to...
A new report by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) explores the growing demand for human-powered...
A photo showing three construction workers suspended from a gateway in their safety harnesses has...
In recent days, the capture of two Chinese soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine has highlighted the role of foreign fighters in that conflict. In a post to his X account, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that there might be growing numbers of Chinese fighting on the Russian side. Officials in Beijing responded by calling Ukraine’s claim “totally unfounded” and denying that there are significant numbers of Chinese citizens fighting on Russia’s behalf. The first two captured Chinese citizens. Today, investigators from the Security Service of Ukraine spoke with...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations...
This week, 20-year-old American influencer Darren Watkins Jr., better known as IShowSpeed,...
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake recorded on Friday near the Burmese city of Mandalay has killed at...
While the CCP swept away many remnants of China’s imperial past, one prominent feature has...
Despite troubling jurisdictional issues, the Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau in...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations for the new national AI champion DeepSeek. At Rest of World, Kinling Lo noted its integration in cars, smartphones, household appliances, and healthcare, as well as government departments. Other recent reports have noted signs of the adoption of AI technologies in surveillance, censorship, and even non-combat military applications. A recent post at Diyin, from which an excerpt is translated below, compiled more than a dozen local governments’ declarations of DeepSeek’s benefits for monitoring...
The Open Technology Fund published a report earlier this month highlighting the rise of...
Chinese tech giant Huawei is embroiled in a major corruption scandal, in which the company is...
A new report by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) explores the growing demand for human-powered...
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central...
The annual Two Sessions political meetings in Beijing have been accompanied by the traditional...
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing have found themselves in the crosshairs of the Chinese government over a multibillion-dollar port deal, which received heavy criticism in state media for supposedly undermining China’s national interests. This external pressure has stalled the deal and raised questions about the extent of Beijing’s influence over Hong Kong companies and Chinese-owned ports around the world, notably near the Panama canal. Jeffie Lam, Denise Tsang, and Lam Ka-sing from the South China Morning Post provided more details and first reported that,...
Despite troubling jurisdictional issues, the Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau in...
Chinese tech giant Huawei is embroiled in a major corruption scandal, in which the company is...
Last week, Chinese state media reported that Wu Yingjie, the former Party chief of the Tibetan...
A photo showing three construction workers suspended from a gateway in their safety harnesses has...
Last week, a Chinese PhD student at University College London was found guilty by a British court...
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...
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...
After conducting nucleic acid testing on its 26 million residents this week, Shanghai remains...
Last week, Chinese state media reported that Wu Yingjie, the former Party chief of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), pleaded guilty to bribery charges during a trial in Beijing. Wu joins a long and growing list of officials swept up in Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign. While Wu played a key role in carrying out the government’s hardline policies in Tibet, analysts doubt that his conviction will improve the human rights situation in the region. Tibetan Review provided more details about Wu’s prosecution and role in Tibetan affairs: The [China Daily] report cited prosecutors as saying...
Last week, a Chinese PhD student at University College London was found guilty by a British court...
Convening next week for its annual gathering, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...
China’s annual Two Sessions political meetings recently drew to a close, minus the presence of National People’s Congress (NPC) Chairman Zhao Leji, the nation’s third most senior official. (Zhao’s unexpected absence was reportedly due to a respiratory tract infection.) Despite the rubber-stamp nature of the sessions, whose proceedings are always highly choreographed, they can also offer an opportunity for delegates to promote and draw attention to their own pet causes. This year, delegates submitted 269 proposals and 8,000 suggestions on topics as varied as promoting and regulating AI,...
At South China Morning Post last week, Mandy Zuo reported on employment targets announced at the...
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 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...
While Weibo and other Chinese social media platforms continue to generate congratulatory content...
Since it began screening in late January during the Spring Festival holiday, the Chinese animated...
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...
The fallout from Friday’s heated Oval Office meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and...
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and its owner Li Ka-shing have found themselves in the crosshairs of the Chinese government over a multibillion-dollar port deal, which received heavy criticism in state media for supposedly undermining China’s national interests. This external pressure has stalled the deal and raised questions about the extent of Beijing’s influence over Hong Kong companies and Chinese-owned ports around the world, notably near the Panama canal. Jeffie Lam, Denise Tsang, and Lam Ka-sing from the South China Morning Post provided more details and first reported that,...
Despite troubling jurisdictional issues, the Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau in...
Chinese tech giant Huawei is embroiled in a major corruption scandal, in which the company is...
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...
Despite troubling jurisdictional issues, the Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau in Xinjiang has imposed a fine of 75,000 yuan (US$10,300) on Yunnan-based artist and independent filmmaker Guo Zhenming (郭珍明) for “illegal filmmaking” activities. The administrative punishment also included the confiscation of Guo’s hard drive, two cameras, and some sound and lighting equipment. The penalties are being criticized by some Chinese netizens and supporters as blatant examples of administrative overreach, “high-seas fishing,” and suppression of artistic freedom. The unusually harsh punishment...
This year, the theme of World Consumer Rights Day on March 15 was “a just transition to...
Convening next week for its annual gathering, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...
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...
On March 16, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that the Chinese economy was...
Recent weeks have seen a mounting chorus of praise from Chinese companies and other organizations for the new national AI champion DeepSeek. At Rest of World, Kinling Lo noted its integration in cars, smartphones, household appliances, and healthcare, as well as government departments. Other recent reports have noted signs of the adoption of AI technologies in surveillance, censorship, and even non-combat military applications. A recent post at Diyin, from which an excerpt is translated below, compiled more than a dozen local governments’ declarations of DeepSeek’s benefits for monitoring...
The Open Technology Fund published a report earlier this month highlighting the rise of...
Chinese tech giant Huawei is embroiled in a major corruption scandal, in which the company is...
An acidic waste spill by a Chinese company in Zambia has created a massive environmental crisis that threatens a river on which millions of Zambians rely. The incident occurred last month at a facility owned by Sino-Metals Leach Zambia, a firm majority-owned by the Chinese state-run China Nonferrous Metals Industry Group. In addition to straining Zambia-China relations, the incident underscores Zambia’s economic vulnerability, since its copper extraction industry is dependent on Chinese and Western corporations with poor environmental track records. Richard Kille and Jacob Zimba at the...
On Tuesday morning, a county in Tibet experienced one of its strongest earthquakes in years....
Infrastructure projects in Tibet have often drawn controversy for failing to balance development,...
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...
Following China’s unannounced naval exercises off the coast of Australia late last month, there has been a noticeable increase in Chinese social media content promoting the invasion (or “nabbing/seizing”) of Australia. There has also been pushback: many Chinese bloggers and commenters have expressed alarm about the rise of such bellicose online sentiment, and the extent to which it is being allowed to proliferate online, particularly in comparison to platform censorship of some more level-headed commentary on Sino-Australian relations. Last month’s Chinese live-fire naval drills, while...
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...
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