Nov 10, 2025

Following more than a week of speculation that Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore (有杏书店, Yǒu Xìng...

Oct 7, 2025

Amid a new two-month “Clear and Bright” campaign by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to clean up internet content that “maliciously incites” polarization, pessimism, anxiety, and other negative sentiments, a number...

Sep 5, 2025

The following censorship instructions, issued by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. (Black text boxes ██ indicate words that were intentionally blacked out in the leaked images.)...

Aug 28, 2025

In 2021, Tibet Action Institute (TAI) published a groundbreaking report exposing the extensive use...

Jul 30, 2025

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...

Jun 3, 2025

Over the past couple weeks, the U.S. government has unleashed a barrage of policies that would restrict the ability of Chinese students to study in the United States. These measures strike at a key pillar of U.S.-China...

Jun 2, 2025

Tibet’s future remains imperiled by the Chinese government’s continued efforts to sever the generational links that sustain Tibetan culture. Recent reports have analyzed how this dynamic plays out in the realms of education and...

Feb 25, 2025

Friday marked the 25th International Mother Language Day, a UNESCO observance for promoting the preservation and protection of linguistic diversity. For Tibetan communities on the Tibetan plateau and in the diaspora, the issue...

Jan 30, 2025

Earlier this month, a massive earthquake struck Tibet and severely damaged numerous monasteries and nunneries. Recent media articles since then have highlighted other ongoing threats to Tibetan culture from the Chinese...

Jan 28, 2025

The mingling of so-called "TikTok refugees" with Chinese users on the PRC-based social network Xiaohongshu spawned a range of reactions, from some Chinese users’ excitement at the unexpected opening of a window...

Jan 10, 2025

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...

Oct 30, 2024

Confronted with a rapidly aging population, a declining birthrate, and socioeconomic shifts that have made younger people less likely to marry or have children, China’s State Council this week unveiled a new slate of policies...

Oct 11, 2024

An October 8 stabbing outside an elementary school in Guangzhou, in which two nine-year-old students and an adult woman were injured, has drawn renewed attention to the phenomenon of indiscriminate knife attacks by people...

Sep 27, 2024

Amid state-media silence and Chinese Foreign Ministry insistence that two fatal anti-Japanese attacks in Shenzhen and Suzhou were “isolated incidents” that could happen in any country, Chinese bloggers, citizen journalists, and...

Sep 27, 2024

New research documents the repressive effects of Hong Kong’s national security laws. This week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report titled “We Can’t Write the Truth Anymore,” detailing the decline in academic freedom and...

Aug 14, 2024

China’s Ministry of State Security has issued a warning to students seeking to study abroad: don’t cast yourself as a regime opponent in your college application essay. An article shared by the WeChat account of the Ministry of...

Jul 2, 2024

It is well known that many Chinese local governments are cash-strapped, burdened by excessive debt, and searching for ways to replenish their depleted coffers. Reports abound of local governments, utilities, and even police...

Jun 12, 2024

The Douban comment was not inflammatory. In fact, it didn’t even betray an overt opinion. But for censors, it was too much. “A note for posterity: this will be Inner Mongolia’s last Mongolian-language gaokao,” it read. Censors...