After the 2021 regulations, the CCP wants to put the immensely popular offline “script entertainment” games under even tighter control.
Communist Propaganda
How China’s “Techno-Mediatic Socialism” Controls Global Information
The level of the CCP’s media control throughout the world is already immense. It may become worse, says Joshua Kurlantzick in a new book.
CCP-Controlled Three-Self Church Mobilized to Implement the Two Sessions Directives
Christian communities were told to preach on Xi Jinping’s victory over COVID, support Chinese propaganda abroad, and get rid of “Western colonial theology.”
Burning Effigies: China Threatens American Academic Miles Yu
A Cultural-Revolution-style statue vilifies a scholar who has mightily upset the Communist Party.
The Digital China 2023 Plan: Is There Something New?
The document reiterates a strategy Xi Jinping is pursuing since before he came to national power. What is new (and alarming) is the propaganda.
China’s New Directives on Law Schools: They Should Teach that Separation of Powers Is Wrong
A document by the Central Committee published on February 26 orders law schools to oppose “constitutionalism” and other Western democratic fallacies.
Media: Friends or Foes of Religious Freedom?
Silence, misrepresentation, and fake news transform one the most important allies of religious freedom into a pervasive and obnoxious enemy.
United Nations: “One Million Tibetan Children Forcibly Separated From Their Parents”
In November, three UN Special Rapporteurs wrote to China. There has been no satisfactory answer, and they have decided to go public.
Hu Xinyu’s Body “Found”: When the Cure is Worse than the Disease
The police says the 15-yer-old student committed suicide. But the story the authorities tell fuels the scandal rather than suppressing it.
Ngaba Prefecture, Sichuan: Massive Re-Education to Prevent Tibetan Self-Immolations
In the “world capital of self-immolation,” the CCP wrongly believes that more repression and “patriotic education” may solve the problem.