Photo: Morning at Shenzhen Shekou Port, by QuantFoto
Morning at Shenzhen Shekou Port, by QuantFoto (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 23, 2024
Morning at Shenzhen Shekou Port, by QuantFoto (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Alexander Boyd | Jul 23, 2024
On the Chinese internet, wall-to-wall state media coverage of the Chinese Olympic delegation’s departure for the 2024 Paris Games has been met with a shrug. With 405 Chinese athletes slated to compete across 236 events,...
Read Moreby Arthur Kaufman | Jul 23, 2024
On Sunday, Renmin University Ph.D. candidate Wang Di publicly accused her doctoral supervisor Wang Guiyuan (no relation) of sexual harassment and assault in a video that went viral on Chinese social media. Her supervisor was...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 19, 2024
The CCP’s recently concluded Third Plenum yielded a final communiqué that acknowledged current economic, geopolitical, and ideological risks and the need for continued systemic reforms but offered little (yet) in the way...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 19, 2024
Untitled, by d Wang (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read Moreby Alexander Boyd | Jul 19, 2024
American politics have trended on the Chinese internet this week. While censors seem to consider discussion of the near-assassination of Donald Trump fair game, the intraparty push to have President Joe Biden cede his position...
Read Moreby Alexander Boyd | Jul 19, 2024
The Third Plenum, a major Party conference on China’s economy held roughly once every five years, came to a close this past Wednesday. The closed-door meeting of Central Committee members reaffirmed the Party’s commitment to...
Read Moreby Arthur Kaufman | Jul 19, 2024
Activists have long attempted to use legal systems to seek accountability for Uyghur forced labor and other potential crimes against humanity in Xinjiang. At the international level, China has effectively used its leverage to...
Read Moreby Arthur Kaufman | Jul 17, 2024
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Selina Cheng announced that she was fired after refusing her supervisor’s request to withdraw from the election for chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association...
Read Moreby Alexander Boyd | Jul 17, 2024
News of American presidential candidate Donald Trump’s near-assassination last weekend has spurred reflections on political violence in China, namely the killing of Hu Youping. In June, Hu Youping was fatally stabbed while...
Read Moreby Arthur Kaufman | Jul 17, 2024
As the room for expression in China continues to shrink under Xi Jinping, many Chinese people are finding more tolerant political environments abroad. Some disenchanted Chinese citizens have made the difficult decision to “run,”...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 16, 2024
Blue hills, by Ben Cappellacci (CC BY 2.0)
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 16, 2024
A massive food-safety scandal over the “open industry secret” of using fuel tanker-trucks to transport cooking oil and other edible products—without the tankers being washed or sanitized in between—is still generating a flood of...
Read Moreby Samuel Wade | Jul 16, 2024
At the Prague-based Sinopsis, René Bigey has published a new report on the CCP’s use of professional associations to pursue technology transfer and political influence in France: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has...
Read Moreby Cindy Carter | Jul 15, 2024
Zhongshan Road, by belfast16 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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