Media Beat
News Control, In the Palm of Your Hand
Remember Xi Jinping’s little red app? “Study Xi, Strong Nation” (学习强国) was...
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China’s media environment moves fast. We follow breaking developments and policy signals, offering an inside look at trends as they emerge.
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Taking Down Deng
On August 22, as China marked the 115th birthday of Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader who led...
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Seeing Through the Violence
Today’s commentary appearing on the front page of the Chinese Communist Party’s official People’s...
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Taming Those Migrant Bandits
A short video circulated on Twitter yesterday showed what appeared to be a mass deployment of...
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War Games in Hong Kong
It was a July of frustration and conflict in Hong Kong. But the Hong Kong garrison of the...
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Hong Kong Through China’s Distorted Lens
A page-one commentary in the Monday edition of the official People’s Daily newspaper, the flagship...
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Three Gorges Dam Back in the Spotlight
The Three Gorges Project, the gravity dam and hydroelectric power station on the Yangtze River...
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War Film Killed By Censors
This week the producers of the much-anticipated Chinese war epic The Eight Hundred announced...
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China’s War on Western Names
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” declares Shakespeare’s Juliet,...
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Into the Sunset
Back in May, there was a flurry of announcements from websites and social networking apps in China...
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Authorities Call for Incineration of Legal Journal
If you are a subscriber to China Legal Studies (中国法学), the official quarterly journal published...
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Trade Tensions and National Dignity
As trade tensions between the United States and China have escalated this week, we have seen a...
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