Xi Jinping himself is promoting a campaign to prevent the Chinese from reaching uncensored news, entertainment, and academic resources from abroad.
China: Fears of a Further Crackdown on Netizens Illegally Accessing Foreign Sites
read more
China
Yunnan: Blind Falun Gong Practitioner Sentenced and “Disappeared”
The story of Yang Xiaoming: when even blindness is treated as a threat.
China: Create Abundance and the Vague Science of Spiritual Persecution
Members of the self-help group are persecuted. The authorities claim they belong to yet another xie jiao.
Dubious Uyghur “Testimonies” Hail “Conversions” to Atheism—Through Marriage
A series of nearly identical videos by Uyghur women married to Han men reveals a state-aligned narrative disguised as individual expression.
China: The Party Bureaucrat Who Married His Deceased Sister
A national scandal exposes the struggles of impoverished local bureaucrats. Zhao Gongpin used creative fraud to get by. It didn’t work.
Death Toll of the Abrupt End of Zero COVID in China: Likely, Two Million
In December 2022, Xi Jinping declared victory over the virus and ended the restrictive policy overnight, fearful of unprecedented protests. It caused a disaster.
How Chinese Propaganda Erased Mongolian Identity—and Much More
Soyonbo Borjgin’s PropagandaScope provides an effective new lens on the CCP’s machinery of erasure.
Plato Goes to Beijing: Why Xi Jinping Wants China to Become a World Leader in Greek and Latin Studies
How the CCP weaponizes classic “non-democratic” Western culture to criticize modern Western ideas of human rights and democracy.
Buy a Chinese Cleaning Robot, Have Your Home Watched by Beijing
An incident shows that robot vacuums made in China might regularly collect and send data back to their country.
When the Esoteric West Sought the Dao—and Discovered Its Own Reflection
A volume edited by Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter classifies and analyzes references by Western esotericists to China.