Tracking Control

The Good Journalist

Nov 8, 2022 | CMP Staff
Media across China are commemorating the country’s official Journalists’ Day today, celebrating the role of the reporter. But in today’s China, what separates the good from the bad?

Headlines and Hashtags

A New Slogan Rises from the Past

Nov 8, 2022 | CMP Staff

China Newspeak

Five Firm Grasps for the World

Oct 23, 2022 | CMP Staff

China Newspeak

Buzzword Babble

Oct 21, 2022 | David Bandurski

China Newspeak

Puzzling Through Xi’s Political Report

Oct 18, 2022 | David Bandurski

Headlines and Hashtags

The Long and Short of the CCP Congress

Oct 16, 2022 | CMP Staff

Headlines and Hashtags

Chance and Defiance on the Front Page

Oct 16, 2022 | David Bandurski

Headlines and Hashtags

Writing the Future into History

Oct 14, 2022 | David Bandurski

China Newspeak

The Spirit at the Core

Oct 13, 2022 | David Bandurski

Three Imperatives

Nov 8, 2022 | CMP Staff
Introduced in Xi Jinping’s political report to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party on October 16, 2022, the “three imperatives” define the desired character and attitude of the CCP member and officials in the so-called New Era — essentially the need to be ideologically on task, hard-working and service-minded, and able to f…

Political Depression

Oct 5, 2022 | David Bandurski
Over the past two decades, the word “political depression” has denoted in the United States and elsewhere in the West a potentially clinical condition that can arise from the dysfunctionality of society and its politics, and the sense of a loss of control over one’s destiny. The term in Chinese has trended during the pandemic in China, and parti…

Sneaky Visit

Sep 5, 2022 | CMP Staff
Used by China’s government since the early 2000s, the term “sneaky visit” is a metaphorically packed phrase meant to signal official displeasure over diplomatic or interpersonal exchanges internationally that involve foreign politicians or diplomats meeting with citizens, dissidents, or representatives from Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan and Hong Kong …
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Writing the Future into History

Oct 14, 2022 | David Bandurski
In China, official versions of history in the present are meant to signal future plans and ambitions. Here’s a look at today’s chronicle of the last five years under the CCP.

China Newspeak

The Spirit at the Core

Oct 13, 2022 | David Bandurski
More important than all other matters of substance at the upcoming 20th National Congress of the CCP will be the question of how deeply the CCP commits to the dualism of Xi Jinping and his governing ideas as the formula for China’s future.

China Newspeak

No “Lying Down” on Covid

Oct 6, 2022 | David Bandurski
As China’s leadership persists in urging the necessity of rigid pandemic policies that have grown increasingly unpopular, it has borrowed a popular online meme and made it the object of righteous scorn.

Headlines and Hashtags

“Xiplomacy” Gets Rare Stage Time

Oct 3, 2022 | CMP Staff
Xi Jinping’s legacy foreign policy phrase got a slight boost last week with prominent coverage in the CCP’s flagship newspaper. But make no mistake — it has been a rough year.

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