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Minitrue: Cool Down on Uncle Ou Shaokun
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. All...
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Word of the Week: To Be Johnned
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
View ArticleU.S. Seeks Details on Official Amid Bank-Hiring Probe
As a part of the U.S. government’s investigation into whether J.P. Morgan hired relatives of top Chinese government officials, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a subpoena last month...
View ArticleFujian Governor Under Investigation
Su Shulin, governor of Fujian Province and a former top oil executive, has become the first acting governor to be placed under investigation during Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on corruption. James...
View ArticleHuman Rights an “Excuse” for Harboring Suspects?
Since becoming China’s top leader more than three years ago, President Xi Jinping has vowed to crack down on both “tigers” and “flies”–low-level government officials and Party elites–in a nationwide...
View ArticleSevere Flood Damage Traced to Corruption, Overbuilding
Flooding across central and southern China has killed more than 100 people and submerged countless neighborhoods in one of the worst floods the country has suffered since 1998. At Quartz, Zheping Huang...
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Drawing the News: Vote-Buying Scandal Refugee
The Liaoning delegation to the National People’s Congress dissolved last week with the revelation that almost half of the delegates had gotten their seats in a vote-buying scandal. While the NPC is a...
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Guo Wengui Demands Rule of Law, Press Freedom, More
CDT cannot verify any information presented by Guo Wengui. In another video message over the weekend, real estate tycoon Guo Wengui, who has known ties to state security agencies, presented the first...
View ArticleGuo Wengui, Steve Bannon Launch Investigation Fund
Billionaire fugitive tycoon Guo Wengui and President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon gave a press conference announcing the establishment of a foundation that will investigate the...
View ArticleChina’s Vaccine Roll Out Overshadowed by History of Pharma Corruption
As several Chinese drugmakers prepare for a global roll-out of their COVID-19 vaccines, a number of newspapers have recently published investigations highlighting the murky world of pharmaceutical...
View ArticleHangzhou Party Boss Investigated For Corruption, Officials Warned About...
An investigation into Hangzhou’s Party chief by the CCP’s powerful internal anti-corruption watchdog may be tied to Alibaba’s ongoing political woes. Over the weekend, the Central Commission for...
View ArticleDisappeared Businesswoman Briefly Reappears As Ex-husband’s Memoir On Elite...
Businesswoman Duan Weihong, who disappeared in 2017 after the arrest of politburo member Sun Zhengcai, resurfaced this past week to request that her ex-husband not publish an explosive memoir detailing...
View ArticleLatest Targets of Hong Kong Censorship Include Films, Publishers, and...
Over two years after the National Security Law went into effect, government censorship continues to stifle free expression in Hong Kong. Authorities have recently taken measures to conceal from the...
View Article“Political Clique” Purged from State Security Apparatus Ahead of Party Congress
Sun Lijun and Fu Zhenghua, formerly powerful ministers in China’s state security apparatus, have been sentenced to death with a two year reprieve for corruption and other crimes. Such sentences are...
View ArticleWord(s) of the Week: “I don’t raise pigs.” (我不养猪 wǒ bù yǎng zhū)
“I don’t raise pigs” (我不养猪 wǒ bù yǎng zhū), a Hunan police station’s nonsensical comment on the death of a woman in their custody, is the latest incidence of “gobsmacking rhetoric” (léi yǔ 雷语) to go...
View ArticleScams, Weapons, and Resource Extraction Entangle Chinese Actors in Myanmar...
More than three years after the military’s coup d’état, Myanmar remains engulfed in instability and civil war. China has more leverage in Myanmar than any other foreign power, and the ongoing crisis...
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