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Help us keep providing high-quality and timely translations so we can introduce more Chinese voices to the world. This is the most important way we help the world better understand China. Thank you! (2/2) https://t.co/cImKDYJQoo

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New Call for China to Free U.S. Scholar Min Zin

"China’s detention of Min Zin is an affront to international norms and standards and sends a chilling message to those who uphold the principles of intellectual freedom and the open exchange of ideas." https://t.co/Vt5jiMLfou

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Detention of Labor-Rights Advocate Feng Rui Draws Attention to Official Pressure, Censorship of Labor Issues

"If documenting injustice requires us to walk on eggshells, we might find ourselves left with a very clean, very quiet, very deserted society." https://t.co/T0S3v1oNbC

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Translation: Why Isn't it "Foreign Interference" When They Praise China?

"What annoys me most is the way a single line of praise from a foreigner is used to paper over our own experience." https://t.co/2VwdhWB6Ii

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Twenty Harbin Students Disciplined for Unauthorized VPN Use After Reportedly Being “Informed on” by Classmate

"There’s a growing trend toward reporting people for the online content they post …. The reporting system has been completely weaponized." https://t.co/85wkPmKMzZ

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@BitterTry There are no small shops?

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Photo: Small shops, by Francisco Anzola
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"Xiao Qiang, founder of ​the US-based China Digital Times, which monitors China's internet, said the 'intense censorship' suggests authorities saw the app as a new form ​of 'creative resistance' with potential for 'social ⁠mobilisation.'"

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"It drew 150,000 contributors before ⁠authorities suspended the app in September, citing unspecified regulatory violations [....] Searches for 'weekend off shopping' on Chinese social media platforms yielded no results."

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"A mobile app called 'Weekend Off Shopping' [allowed] users to check and rate whether businesses gave staff a full two-day weekend, encouraging shoppers ​to buy from those that did and avoid ​the others."

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Reuters – With national holidays approaching, Chinese workers demand a proper break
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"A WeChat essay translated by China Digital Times [...] described China’s keyword-based censorship as blunt and counterproductive [...,] interfering with ordinary communication, even when users are not criticizing the government or discussing politically sensitive issues."

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HRIC – HRIC Digital Rights Report - August 2026
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"Xiao Qiang, founder of ​the US-based China Digital Times, which monitors China's internet, said the 'intense censorship' suggests authorities saw the app as a new form ​of 'creative resistance' with potential for 'social ⁠mobilisation.'"

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Reuters – With national holidays approaching, Chinese workers demand a proper break
https://t.co/792U6VLafc

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"It drew 150,000 contributors before ⁠authorities suspended the app in September, citing unspecified regulatory violations [....] Searches for 'weekend off shopping' on Chinese social media platforms yielded no results."

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CDT’s Minstry of Truth Directives are published here: https://t.co/9HVKoWNZVr

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"China Digital Times [...] has long published official leaked censorship orders under its Ministry of Truth column, exposing the wide and changing range of issues that are off limits."

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"External censorship takes the form of directives from senior levels (ultimately the CCP’s Propaganda Department) that give continuous instructions on what issues to stay clear of or what aspects of a current developing news story to avoid."

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Safeguard Defenders – CGTN: See the Difference. China's Party-State Media in Focus
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