In 2025, Wong Kar-wai found himself at the center of one of China’s most explosive entertainment scandals of the year, one that began as a labor dispute and spiraled into a nationalist... Read more »

Source: Satellite image from Vantor on Apr. 10. Over the last few months, China has been quietly and quickly building an island in disputed waters off the coast of Vietnam that will... Read more »

The Australian government has been urged to take stronger action to protect Chinese international students from political repression by authorities on their return after a Chinese student was allegedly sentenced to six... Read more »

This month, feminist blogger 三月vulcanus (Sānyuè vulcanus, “March vulcanus”) announced that she would abandon her current WeChat account 三月云 (Sānyuè yún, “March Cloud”) after a series of temporary suspensions. A new account,... Read more »

China’s online censorship regime is often associated with overt blocks, deletions, and account bans, but these blunt and highly visible measures exist on a wide spectrum. Toward the harsher end are invitations... Read more »

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... Read more »

Xi Jinping himself is promoting a campaign to prevent the Chinese from reaching uncensored news, entertainment, and academic resources from abroad. by Tan Liwei Trying to escape the Great Firewall. AI-generated. Virtual... Read more »

How to Be Cultured Menu Art Chinese Literati Painting 900s-Early 1900s One of the longest-running movements in art history, it combined poetry and painting into a single image. “The very idea of a movement... Read more »

Two months ago, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, promised it would be a “big year” for China-US relations. He was right, but perhaps not in the way he expected. Wang was speaking... Read more »