The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased.
June Fourth 2024 — Dai Qing, a former person who refused to be silenced
Reporter, novelist and China’s first post-Mao historical investigative journalist, Dai Qing continues her quest to reveal China to itself.
‘China’s people are increasingly aware of human rights’
The growing vulnerability of Xi Jinping’s strongman rule.
Land sinking in China’s major cities, new study finds
Alarming subsidence impacting China’s coastal areas poses a serious threat to millions of people, new research shows. Probe International revisits its proposed solutions from 2008.
China is selectively bending history to suit its territorial ambitions
Beijing’s unwillingness to let go of certain claims suggests there’s more at stake than reversing past losses.
Pakistan: suicide bombing claims five Chinese nationals working on CPEC project
Another deadly attack heightens concerns for Chinese nationals working on projects in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
A dissident in Europe is enraging Beijing. Now Chinese police are coming for his social media followers
Followers of an X account that circulates news censored in China find themselves in hot tea for ‘thought crime’.
A year on: remembering Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the truth-teller who saved lives
A celebration of Dr. Jiang Yanyong (蒋彦永), China’s “honest doctor,” who first became known to the world for exposing a government cover-up during the SARS crisis of 2003.
How one woman duped China’s censorship machine
Using the persona of an Iranian protester to circulate content, a writer manages to hoodwink China’s internet censors for weeks. Netizens notice how familiar the depiction of state control sounds.
Forced labour from North Korea is tainting the world’s seafood supply
China officially denies these workers are in the country, but their presence is an open secret. An investigation reveals 15 seafood processing plants have used over 1,000 North Korean workers since 2017.
Wang Xiaoshuai’s “Above the Dust”: Another movie destined not to be released in China
China’s acclaimed master of independent cinema risks punishment to screen his latest release at Germany’s Berlinale without approval from Chinese authorities.
Nearly one-fifth of the Mekong’s fish are at risk of extinction and the main culprits are hydroelectric dams
A new study finds the construction of hydroelectric dams on the main trunk and tributaries of the Mekong River are threatening the livelihoods and food security of millions and the survival of […]
Dammed to the hilt
For the first time, a comprehensive list of cascade dams in Sichuan Province shows the jaw-dropping extent to which one of China’s most hydropowered regions is being developed, proving the Xi Jinping […]
More than 100 Tibetans arrested over dam protest
In a rare act of defiance, residents push back against the construction of a massive dam that would destroy Buddhist monasteries and force the resettlement of two villages.
China’s income status and the value of labels
A 2016 article predicting China would rise to high-income status in 2024 provokes too much comment given China’s current climate of economic gloom. The article was deleted but the status in question […]
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