25 可能 2026, 08:15
During the recent back-to-back Sino-American and Sino-Russian summits, there was a fair amount of online censorship of sensitive-word combinations, much of it “soft censorship” aimed at controlling online discourse by limiting search results to Chinese government websites and state-media outlets. This, and a lack of substantive breakthroughs during the Xi-Trump summit in particular, meant that […]
24 可能 2026, 18:15
In early May, well before the respective visits to Beijing of American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, online controversy erupted over Sputnik news agency footage of Chinese schoolchildren, clad in retro Red Army uniforms, marching in a Vladivostok parade in the run-up to Russia’s May 9 “Victory Day,” which commemorates the defeat […]
24 可能 2026, 12:15
In early May, well before the respective visits to Beijing of American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, online controversy erupted over Sputnik news agency footage of Chinese schoolchildren, clad in retro Red Army uniforms, marching in a Vladivostok parade in the run-up to Russia’s May 9 “Victory Day,” which commemorates the defeat […]
24 可能 2026, 08:15
In early May, well before the respective visits to Beijing of American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, online controversy erupted over Sputnik news agency footage of Chinese schoolchildren, clad in retro Red Army uniforms, marching in a Vladivostok parade in the run-up to Russia’s May 9 “Victory Day,” which commemorates the defeat […]
23 可能 2026, 18:15
In early May, well before the respective visits to Beijing of American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, online controversy erupted over Sputnik news agency footage of Chinese schoolchildren, clad in retro Red Army uniforms, marching in a Vladivostok parade in the run-up to Russia’s May 9 “Victory Day,” which commemorates the defeat […]
23 可能 2026, 12:15
In early May, well before the respective visits to Beijing of American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, online controversy erupted over Sputnik news agency footage of Chinese schoolchildren, clad in retro Red Army uniforms, marching in a Vladivostok parade in the run-up to Russia’s May 9 “Victory Day,” which commemorates the defeat […]
23 可能 2026, 08:15
Even as Xi Jinping basked in the international media spotlight surrounding successive state visits by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, one domestic meme painted his position as more precarious. A video posted earlier this month to Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese counterpart, offered this scenario: If you see a tortoise perched on top of a utility pole, […]
23 可能 2026, 08:15
In early May, well before the respective visits to Beijing of American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, online controversy erupted over Sputnik news agency footage of Chinese schoolchildren, clad in retro Red Army uniforms, marching in a Vladivostok parade in the run-up to Russia’s May 9 “Victory Day,” which commemorates the defeat […]
22 可能 2026, 18:15
In early May, well before the respective visits to Beijing of American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, online controversy erupted over Sputnik news agency footage of Chinese schoolchildren, clad in retro Red Army uniforms, marching in a Vladivostok parade in the run-up to Russia’s May 9 “Victory Day,” which commemorates the defeat […]
22 可能 2026, 12:15
In early May, well before the respective visits to Beijing of American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, online controversy erupted over Sputnik news agency footage of Chinese schoolchildren, clad in retro Red Army uniforms, marching in a Vladivostok parade in the run-up to Russia’s May 9 “Victory Day,” which commemorates the defeat […]
22 可能 2026, 08:15
In early May, well before the respective visits to Beijing of American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, online controversy erupted over Sputnik news agency footage of Chinese schoolchildren, clad in retro Red Army uniforms, marching in a Vladivostok parade in the run-up to Russia’s May 9 “Victory Day,” which commemorates the defeat […]
14 可能 2026, 08:15
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”) from Chinese platforms such as WeChat, Weibo, Douyin (TikTok’s counterpart in the Chinese market), Xiaohongshu (RedNote), Bilibili, Zhihu, […]
14 可能 2026, 08:15
At The Wall Street Journal last week, departing China correspondent Yoko Kubota described her experiences as "a Japanese person who worked for an American newspaper" in a climate of rising nationalist sentiment and international tension: In China, the drumbeat of nationalistic sentiment has intensified with time. Negative push alerts about Japan from news outlets and […]
09 可能 2026, 08:15
Despite huge leaps in recent decades, rural living standards remain an issue of widespread popular concern in China. A heating crisis in Hebei last winter, for example, became the focus of intense online discussion and subsequent censorship as the withdrawal of natural gas subsidies and a ban on traditional coal heating left many rural pensioners […]
06 可能 2026, 08:15
Last month, a former contributor to the Beijing Normal University student media outlet 京师学人 (Jīngshī Xuérén, "Capital Scholar") noted that its WeChat public account had been deregistered. Although updates had halted in 2023, the account and its content—more than 600 existing articles—had remained online, and "The Snowman" (雪人 Xuěrén, a pun on 学人 Xuérén) was […]
05 可能 2026, 18:15
In an article published to its official WeChat account on Tuesday, the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) accused unnamed “foreign organizations” of trying to brainwash Chinese youth into “lying flat” (also “lying down” or “slacking off”), a meme-fueled lifestyle trend that eschews the rat race for a simpler, slower-paced, less ambitious life. The article […]
05 可能 2026, 12:15
In an article published to its official WeChat account on Tuesday, the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) accused unnamed “foreign organizations” of trying to brainwash Chinese youth into “lying flat” (also “lying down” or “slacking off”), a meme-fueled lifestyle trend that eschews the rat race for a simpler, slower-paced, less ambitious life. The article […]
05 可能 2026, 08:15
In an article published to its official WeChat account on Tuesday, the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) accused unnamed “foreign organizations” of trying to brainwash Chinese youth into “lying flat” (also “lying down” or “slacking off”), a meme-fueled lifestyle trend that eschews the rat race for a simpler, slower-paced, less ambitious life. The article […]
04 可能 2026, 18:15
In an article published to its official WeChat account on Tuesday, the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) accused unnamed “foreign organizations” of trying to brainwash Chinese youth into “lying flat” (also “lying down” or “slacking off”), a meme-fueled lifestyle trend that eschews the rat race for a simpler, slower-paced, less ambitious life. The article […]
04 可能 2026, 12:15
In an article published to its official WeChat account on Tuesday, the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) accused unnamed “foreign organizations” of trying to brainwash Chinese youth into “lying flat” (also “lying down” or “slacking off”), a meme-fueled lifestyle trend that eschews the rat race for a simpler, slower-paced, less ambitious life. The article […]