Going Global

Telling China’s Story, Poorly

Aug 15, 2022 | Kevin Schoenmakers
Why did four Chinese propaganda documentaries of questionable quality and dubious provenance win awards at minor, as well as fake, international film festivals?

China Newspeak

Hot Words Heat Up for Xi

Aug 10, 2022 | CMP Staff

Headlines and Hashtags

Looking Back on China’s “Golden Era”

Aug 5, 2022 | CMP Staff

Going Global

China’s Global Soundbite Factory

Aug 4, 2022 | David Bandurski

China Newspeak

Putting Pelosi in the Corner

Aug 3, 2022 | David Bandurski

Tracking Control

Don’t You Dare Say “WeChat”

Jul 27, 2022 | Stella Chen

Headlines and Hashtags

The Didi National Security Mystery

Jul 22, 2022 | David Bandurski

Headlines and Hashtags

Major Glitch at Virtual Tech Event

Jul 22, 2022 | CMP Staff

Tracking Control

Rewarding Compliance

Jul 21, 2022 | David Bandurski

Streamlining Services

Aug 16, 2022 | CMP Staff
First introduced by Premier Li Keqiang (李克强) in 2015 during a nationwide government teleconference, “streamlining services,” or fang guan fu (放管服), essentially refers to optimizing government services to cut down on red tape and documentation and thereby reduce the financial burden of compliance on enterprises.

Digital Literacy

Jul 13, 2022 | David Bandurski
In much of the world, digital literacy centers on giving citizens the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to be safe and empowered in cyberspace. In China, related initiatives are enmeshed with the far more basic goal of ideological and political control.

Common Prosperity

Jul 8, 2022 | David Bandurski
“Common prosperity,” or gongtong fuyu (共同富裕), is a phrase that has been used by successive generations of Chinese leaders to express the overall goal of economic policy-making in terms that emphasize broad benefits for the people of China, while at the same time legitimizing the specific political agendas pursued by the top leader — in the proc…
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Headlines and Hashtags

Major Glitch at Virtual Tech Event

Jul 22, 2022 | CMP Staff
A virtual event hosted yesterday by Baidu and CCTV News was meant to showcase “avant-garde” AI applications. But the tech giant’s live video feed for the event was hijacked by old-fashioned regulatory hurdles.

Tracking Control

Rewarding Compliance

Jul 21, 2022 | David Bandurski
This month China announced its preliminary selections for the China Press Awards, the “highest award for outstanding national journalism.” Under the country’s tightly-controlled media system, what exactly amounts to excellence?

Tracking Control

“Clear and Bright” for the CCP Congress

Jul 19, 2022 | CMP Staff
Announcing a two-month “special action” to clean up content on social media, short video platforms, and streaming services, Chinese authorities say the goal is to protect the country’s youth. But official statements earlier this year point to one clear purpose — paving the way for quieting disse…

Going Global

Taking China’s Global Cyber Body to Task

Jul 14, 2022 | David Bandurski
It has been a rocky eight-year journey for China’s World Internet Conference, and global credibility still eludes the event. Here’s what you should know about the CCP’s latest effort to re-frame WIC as an international organization. Let the buyer beware.

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