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By many accounts, China’s AI industry is closing the gap with the U.S. American export controls have supercharged Chinese domestic innovation, and Chinese AI chatbot models such as DeepSeek now equal ...

You Must Take Part in Revolution is a graphic novel by Badiucao, political cartoonist and former CDT contributor, and Melissa ...

A man who used an onboard emergency hammer to smash a hole in the window of a stalled train to relieve the suffering of his ...

Two incidents this month highlight the ways in which local governments’ action on public health and safety measures are often geared more toward shielding authorities from accountability or financial ...

At the start of 2025, analysts reflected on the trajectory of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) more than a decade after its launch. Years of massive overseas lending brought China to an unfamiliar ...

Dalian Polytechnic University recently announced it would expel a student for what it termed her “improper contact with a foreigner” that “undermined the national dignity” of China. The incident ...

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On June 30, the performance artist and environmental activist known as Nut Brother (坚果兄弟), along with his collaborator and art curator Zheng Hongbin, disappeared after returning from a trip ...

Shanghai launched a system of traffic safety codes which “aggregates records of traffic accidents and violations involving couriers throughout the city, [and] allows the authorities to identify ...

Code for June 4, 1989, the date of the crackdown on pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square. (The military operation began late on the night of June 3.) Ordinarily the event is referred to ...

Town in Jiangxi Province known as the porcelain capital of China; code name for China. When netizens write about China, the word "China" (Zhōngguó 中国) is often picked up by sophisticated ...