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China Newspeak

Optimization: Another Word for Messy

Feb 2, 2023 | CMP Staff
Over the past two months, the CCP leadership has sought to downplay the problems stemming from its sudden decision to dismantle rigid Covid control measures, insisting that all is going according to plan. State media have actively pushed the narrative that this has all been a skillful re-tooling of existing policies.

Going Global

Getting Personal With State Propaganda

Jan 25, 2023 | David Bandurski

Going Global

Chinese Propaganda, In a Local Paper Near You

Jan 19, 2023 | David Bandurski

China Newspeak

Whitewashing China’s Record on Covid

Jan 9, 2023 | David Bandurski

Tracking Control

Cai Qi Leads Propaganda Ministers Conference

Jan 5, 2023 | CMP Staff

Tracking Control

Reporting Achievements

Dec 19, 2022 | David Bandurski

Headlines and Hashtags

Looking the People’s Daily in the Eye

Dec 1, 2022 | David Bandurski

China Newspeak

The Politics of Passing On

Nov 30, 2022 | David Bandurski

Headlines and Hashtags

Colorless Tributes for Jiang Zemin

Nov 30, 2022 | CMP Staff

The CMP Dictionary

Five Firm Grasps

Dec 13, 2022 | David Bandurski
First appearing in late October 2022, in the wake of the 20th National Congress of the CCP, the “Five Firm Grasps” are essentially a short list of political priorities to set the direction of the next five years of Xi’s rule. The list is topped with the doctrinaire demand that CCP members fall into line and acknowledge the greatness of the first…

Socialite

Dec 7, 2022 | Xinyu Deng
Once signifying graceful women of a distinguished background, the term “socialite,” or yuan (媛), has in recent years become a misogynistic umbrella term used on digital platforms in China to disparage women who advertise fancy lifestyles. The term has also been used by state-run media to roundly criticize perceived materialistic excesses, reinfo…

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…
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B

  • Big Data Swindling

C

  • Chaoyang Masses
  • Civil Society
  • Colonized
  • Common Prosperity
  • Community of Common Destiny for Mankind
  • Comprehensive Cyber Governance System
  • Cooperation
  • Core

D

  • Democracy
  • Development
  • Digital Hegemony
  • Digital Literacy
  • Discourse Power

F

  • Fengqiao Experience
  • Five Firm Grasps
  • Five-in-One
  • Four Comprehensives
  • Freedom of Speech

G

  • Good Governance
  • Green Waters and Green Mountains
  • Grid Based Management
  • Guidance of Public Opinion

H

  • Harmonious Society
  • High-Level Black
  • Hostile Forces
  • Human Rights

I

  • Ideological and Political Education
  • Important Instructions

K

  • Keyboard Warrior

L

  • Low-Level Red

M

  • Main Melody
  • Mainstream
  • Media Convergence
  • Ministry of Truth
  • Multilateralism

N

  • Naked Official
  • Not Forgetting the Original Intention

O

  • Objectivity
  • Offering Advice

P

  • Party Spirit
  • Peace
  • People’s Leader
  • Petitioning
  • Political Depression
  • Positive Energy
  • Proletarian Revolutionary
  • Public Diplomacy

R

  • Red Country
  • Red Genes
  • Rule of Law
  • Runology

S

  • Second-Generation Reds
  • Security
  • Seeking Progress in Stability
  • Smart Governance
  • Sneaky Visit
  • Socialite
  • Sovereignty
  • Speaking Politics
  • Streamlining Services
  • Strong Cyber Power

T

  • Telling China’s Story Well
  • Ten Definites
  • Three Closenesses
  • Three Imperatives
  • Three Supremes
  • Two Establishes

W

  • Whole-Process Democracy
  • Written Comments

X

  • Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era

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China Newspeak

The Politics of Passing On

Nov 30, 2022 | David Bandurski
In China, the death of an esteemed comrade is never strictly a private matter. For context on the passing of Jiang Zemin, CMP runs this piece from the 2017 archives — on the politics of the official funeral.

Headlines and Hashtags

Colorless Tributes for Jiang Zemin

Nov 30, 2022 | CMP Staff
Online media directly run by the Chinese Communist Party media responded to the news of the death of former President Jiang Zemin by going all black. More commercially oriented media made different choices.

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
In defining the period ahead for China and the CCP as a road of many twists and turns, requiring historic resolve, Xi Jinping has borrowed from the language Mao Zedong used ahead of the Party’s victory in the Civil War in 1949.

Interviews

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  • Lan Fang and Guo Zhaofan

  • Runako Celina

  • Lucia Shen

  • Maria Repnikova

  • Hongqiao Liu

  • Huazong

  • Zeng Ming

  • Yiyi Yin

  • Zhan Jiang

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