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In yet another blow for book lovers and free thinkers in Hong Kong, national security police raided two independent bookstores (Have a Nice Stay and Greenfield, respectively) and arrested five individuals on suspicion of selling allegedly seditious publications, an offence punishable with up to seven years in prison under Hong Kong’s homegrown national security law []
In late May, China’s State Council announced new guidelines on providing basic services in the place of people’s actual residence, rather than formal registration. Such a shift could substantially alleviate the hardships imposed by the current hukou household registration system, which has effectively kept many tens of millions of migrant workers apart from their parents []
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China issued the findings of its 2025 Media Freedoms Survey this week, painting an unsurprisingly bleak picture of the new abnormal conditions for the shrinking foreign news media presence in the country. Respondents reported frequent obstruction, surveillance, weaponization of visa issuances and renewals, legal threats, and pressure on Chinese colleagues. []
Back-to-back typhoons have brought torrential rain, flooding, and other extreme weather events to parts of southern and central China, and prompted mass evacuations of people living in the paths of the storms. Last week, Typhoon Maysak left 39 people dead, killed large numbers of livestock, and spawned two very rare tornados in central Hubei province. []
CDT recently published a large set of leaked internal instructions for online content management from the Chinese platform Leshi Video, or LeTV. They were issued to LeTV between March 2, 2017 and March 10, 2020 by the Cyberspace Administration of China and other network supervision departments, and convey meticulously detailed requirements for content control and []
The post below, the latest in a series of translated accounts by Chinese users grappling with online censorship, bemoans automated comment moderation on WeChat public accounts. The author, on her account May’s Thoughts on the World, explains to readers that disappearing comments are not her own doing, and bristles at the apparently endless scope of []
