The sudden announcement Friday of a corruption probe against Zhang Jianchun marks just the second case in the Xi Jinping era of a senior propaganda official falling from grace.| China Media Project
A softball question pitched to China's foreign minister at this year's National People’s Congress kicked up a simple question: Who is China-Arab TV?| linguasinica.substack.com
The owner of Taipei's pioneering Tongsan Books tells us what more than four decades in the business have taught him about publishing and bookselling in Taiwan and the wider Chinese-speaking world.| linguasinica.substack.com
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Originally meant as a platform for dialogue, the “Understanding China” international conference has become a mere stage for China’s ruling party. It stands as yet another example of how the notion of dialogue has become twisted by China's media statecraft in the Xi era — and how cities and provinces are now being roped into the business of external propaganda.| China Media Project
This weekend, China’s leaders gather in Beijing for meetings widely expected to determine the shape of China’s economy, as well as the nation’s progress, over the next decade. What exactly the outcome of this Third Plenum of the Eighteenth Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party will be remains shrouded in no small measure of secrecy, like most matters of high politics in China. President Xi Jinping has signaled that a significant new wave of economic liberalization may be in the ...| ChinaFile
The latest outpost for China’s nascent International Communication Centers has been unveiled in Lanzhou New Area, a satellite city on the edge of the Gobi that has been dismissed as a ghost town. What does this tell us about China’s external propaganda efforts directed westward to Belt and Road partners?| China Media Project
