Xiao Qiang: Control Mechanism Cracked in the Face of Technology
This OP-ED was published by Asian Wall Street Journal on 27 April 05: It’s no coincidence that the largest of China’s recent anti-Japanese protests occurred in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai,...
View ArticleWarning over unrest after violent protests
From The South China Morning Post, via A Glimpse of the World: The authorities issued a stern warning yesterday after a series of violent protests across the country, emphasising the Communist Party’s...
View ArticleRiot Police Deployed as Hunan Teachers Protest
Laura Zhou at South China Morning Post reports that authorities in Hunan have summoned riot police after thousands of teachers converged on government buildings this week, joining a demonstration that...
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Translation: Illegal Petitioning Can Affect Your Children!
A WeChat post last week from the public account XiaoJingZhiJia (@小警之家, which bills itself as “the most attentive police new media portal focused on the working lives of grassroots unit police...
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Defrauded P2P Investors’ Protest Quashed in Beijing
In recent months, the collapse of China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) loan industry has eradicated the life savings of many individuals who had put their money in the high-risk, high-return schemes. Once valued...
View ArticleBeijing Pulls COVID Isolation Tracking Bracelets After Backlash; Hong Kong...
While many governments elsewhere appear resigned to “sliding into the long pandemic defeat,” those in China continue to fight COVID-19 with an array of weapons including mass testing, smartphone-based...
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Beijing Bridge Protest Scraped From Web as Censorship Tightens Before Party...
A solitary protestor hung two banners calling for Xi Jinping to be removed from office and exhorting the populace to “Be citizens, not slaves,” an extremely rare act of overt political defiance on the...
View ArticleFrom Spam-bots to Crowd Shots, Authorities Seek to Distract Amid...
As thousands across China erupted into a weekend of nationwide protests following a deadly fire in Urumqi, authorities used various propaganda tactics in traditional and social media to minimize the...
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Protestors Scoff at “Foreign Forces” Accusations
Chinese protesters shot down insinuations that their demonstrations this past week were controlled by shadowy “foreign forces,” a tactic often used by the state and its defenders to strip dissent of...
View ArticleFive Slogans Show Protest Movement’s Diversity, Unity
The spontaneous protests that swept China last week were remarkable for a number of reasons, among them their diversity. While all the demonstrations were loosely tied together by mourning the loss of...
View ArticleMosque Demolition Sparks Clashes Between Armed Police and Hui Muslim...
The partial demolition of a historic mosque in rural Yunnan this past weekend ignited conflict between local Hui Muslim residents and armed police. The clashes in Najiaying, a village in Yuxi, China,...
View ArticleWords of the Week: “Criminalizing Creditors” by Accusing Them of “Picking...
Many entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens welcomed the news that provincial prosecutors in Guizhou are investigating a local government for arresting businesswoman Ma Yijiayi and her lawyers and...
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