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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · Jul 10
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China Digital Times (CDT) is a non-profit organization that relies on institutional and individual donations to sustain our operations. In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our inst...
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China Reacts to Nepal Protest Movement
The “Gen Z” protest movement that toppled Nepal’s government last week has sent shockwaves around the region. Fueled by longstanding grievances over government corruption and social inequality, Nepale...
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"The collapse demonstrated the 'existential risk of relinquishing control' and the dangers when authoritarian tactics fail in democratic contexts."
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"China Digital Times reported that Chinese analysts viewed Nepal’s social media ban—modelled on China’s censorship playbook—as a 'nightmare scenario for leaders in Beijing' when it backfired."
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 12h
The Borderlens – Nepal’s Gen Z protests: Beijing behind the Bamboo Curtain
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Nepal’s Gen Z protests: Beijing behind the Bamboo Curtain
Nepal’s 2025 youth uprising exposed deep-rooted corruption fueled by decades of Chinese influence, echoing Sri Lanka’s collapse under Beijing’s debt diplomacy. Both nations reveal how China’s opaque i...
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 12h
"'Free speech' is the one word they don’t want to appear on [Chinese] social media,' Xiao said. Xiao observed fewer restrictions on discussions about Floyd’s killing in 2020 because police violence and racism are not as politically sensitive as free speech in China."
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 12h
"While [Chinese] censors might 'tolerate' various nuanced perspectives on some topics, Kirk’s killing is not one of those, [CDT founder and editor-in-chief Xiao Qiang] said. When it comes to free speech issues, it’s too easy to hold the mirror up to China."
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 12h
Domino Theory – Make Sure the Mirror is Glass
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Make Sure the Mirror is Glass - Domino Theory
When the U.S. State Department criticized Beijing for subverting the rule of law in Hong Kong in 2020, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson gave a three-word response on Twitter, invoking George Floy...
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Photo: Personal Transport in a Hutong - Beijing, by Andrew Roberts
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In one of Beijing's narrow hutongs (alleyways), a compact gray and red Mini Cooper shares sidewalk space with four rental bikes, two of which are bright yellow, and two of which are sky blue. The car's color scheme matches the facade of the one-story building behind it: the building's stuccoed facade is painted gray, and its double-wide wooden door is bright red. Next to the door is a temporary partition - which appears to be obscuring a construction site - in shades of aqua, dark green, and white, featuring environmental-protection slogans.
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Translations: As CAC Tackles “Malicious” Negativity Online, Popular Influencers Hit With Bans

"Hu and Zhang often danced on the red line, but they had a firm grasp of where the boundaries were. Now both have crashed and burned, because the line has begun moving higher. Whose turn will be next?"
Translations: As CAC Tackles “Malicious” Negativity Online, Popular Influencers Zhang Xuefeng, Hu Chenfeng, Lan Zhanfei Hit With Bans
Amid a new two-month “Clear and Bright” campaign by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to clean up internet content that “maliciously incites” polarization, pessimism, anxiety, and other neg...
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More on the cross-regional harassment and detention of "danmei" fiction authors:
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Profit-Seeking Police Crack Down on “Danmei” Erotic Fiction Writers
Chinese authorities have arrested dozens of writers of Boys’ Love (BL), or danmei, a genre of online homoerotic fiction featuring male protagonists, and typically created by and for women. This latest...
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The deleted Sanlian Life Weekly story on cross-regional arrests of "danmei" erotic fiction authors, archived by CDT:
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【404文库】三联生活周刊｜海棠作者被异地传唤：耽美作品涉罪的边界与争议
没有获利，以及获利金额极低的网文作者是否有罪？如何认定淫秽物品以及由谁来认定？淫秽物品具体的获利金额、点击量如何计算？以及20多年前针对电子淫秽物品的司法解释，是否还适用于如今的社会？
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The deleted Sanlian Life Weekly story on Beijing flooding, archived by CDT:
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三联生活周刊｜水淹养老照料中心
在北京这轮强降雨过程中，密云区受灾最严重，其中太师屯镇是受灾中心。7月28日，洪水淹没了太师屯镇养老照料中心。
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 6d
"The most noteworthy change [in the CAC whitelist for 2025] was the omission of Sanlian Life Weekly (三聯生活周刊), a respected news magazine [...whose] sensitive investigative reports on Beijing flooding and cross-regional arrests [...] were subsequently deleted from Chinese internet platforms."
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 6d
Lingua Sinica – Fake Bylines, Cognitive Warfare, and 3 AI Tips from FT Chinese
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Fake Bylines, Cognitive Warfare, and 3 AI Tips from FT Chinese
These stories and lots more — including the whitelist wipeout of a major newsmagazine — in this latest edition of the Lingua Sinica newsletter.
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Jerome Cohen, the "Evergreen Pine of Rule of Law in China," Remembered
Jerome Cohen, the "Evergreen Pine of Rule of Law in China," Remembered
The death of Jerome Cohen last week at the age of 95 prompted a wave of tributes to the legendary professor of Chinese law. Outside legal circles, Cohen may have been best known for his involvement in...
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 6d
More on the cross-regional harassment and detention of "danmei" fiction authors:
chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/06/prof...
Profit-Seeking Police Crack Down on “Danmei” Erotic Fiction Writers
Chinese authorities have arrested dozens of writers of Boys’ Love (BL), or danmei, a genre of online homoerotic fiction featuring male protagonists, and typically created by and for women. This latest...
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 6d
The deleted Sanlian Life Weekly story on cross-regional arrests of "danmei" erotic fiction authors, archived by CDT:
chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/7186...
【404文库】三联生活周刊｜海棠作者被异地传唤：耽美作品涉罪的边界与争议
没有获利，以及获利金额极低的网文作者是否有罪？如何认定淫秽物品以及由谁来认定？淫秽物品具体的获利金额、点击量如何计算？以及20多年前针对电子淫秽物品的司法解释，是否还适用于如今的社会？
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 6d
The deleted Sanlian Life Weekly story on Beijing flooding, archived by CDT:
chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/7201...
三联生活周刊｜水淹养老照料中心
在北京这轮强降雨过程中，密云区受灾最严重，其中太师屯镇是受灾中心。7月28日，洪水淹没了太师屯镇养老照料中心。
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 6d
"The most noteworthy change [in the CAC whitelist for 2025] was the omission of Sanlian Life Weekly (三聯生活周刊), a respected news magazine [...whose] sensitive investigative reports on Beijing flooding and cross-regional arrests [...] were subsequently deleted from Chinese internet platforms."
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 6d
Lingua Sinica – Fake Bylines, Cognitive Warfare, and 3 AI Tips from FT Chinese
linguasinica.substack.com/p/fake-bylin...
Fake Bylines, Cognitive Warfare, and 3 AI Tips from FT Chinese
These stories and lots more — including the whitelist wipeout of a major newsmagazine — in this latest edition of the Lingua Sinica newsletter.
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CDT Quote of the Week:
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"Chinese companies have to teach [content moderators certain] information, so that they can then attempt to memory-hole it. AI doesn't completely obviate that, but to the extent that you can program in some of that stuff, like the Tiananmen Square Massacre, you don't have to educate actual humans on these things that you want memory-holed." - Jessica Batke, co-author of "The Locknet: How China Controls Its Internet and Why It Matters," on how AI is being used to facilitate censorship by Chinese cyberspace authorities and platform moderators
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Ahead of Global Women's Summit in Beijing, More Feminist Content Blocked on WeChat
Ahead of Global Women's Summit in Beijing, More Feminist Content Blocked on WeChat
In the run-up to the Global Women’s Summit slated for October in Beijing, which will mark the 30th anniversary of that city’s influential 1995 U.N. World Conference on Women, some WeChat accounts focu...
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 6d
Jerome Cohen, the "Evergreen Pine of Rule of Law in China," Remembered
Jerome Cohen, the "Evergreen Pine of Rule of Law in China," Remembered
The death of Jerome Cohen last week at the age of 95 prompted a wave of tributes to the legendary professor of Chinese law. Outside legal circles, Cohen may have been best known for his involvement in...
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 7d
CDT Quote of the Week:
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"Chinese companies have to teach [content moderators certain] information, so that they can then attempt to memory-hole it. AI doesn't completely obviate that, but to the extent that you can program in some of that stuff, like the Tiananmen Square Massacre, you don't have to educate actual humans on these things that you want memory-holed." - Jessica Batke, co-author of "The Locknet: How China Controls Its Internet and Why It Matters," on how AI is being used to facilitate censorship by Chinese cyberspace authorities and platform moderators
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 7d
Ahead of Global Women's Summit in Beijing, More Feminist Content Blocked on WeChat
Ahead of Global Women's Summit in Beijing, More Feminist Content Blocked on WeChat
In the run-up to the Global Women’s Summit slated for October in Beijing, which will mark the 30th anniversary of that city’s influential 1995 U.N. World Conference on Women, some WeChat accounts focu...
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