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The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee concluded in Beijing on October 23. The session adopted the proposals for the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, which immediately sparked widespread debate among Chinese netizens. (1/6)

As part of its nuclear phase-out, Germany demolished two decommissioned nuclear plant cooling towers on October 25. （https://www.euronews.com/2025/10/25/germany-destroys-two-nuclear-plant-cooling-towers-as-part-of-nuclear-phaseout-plan）The move has garnered attention on Chinese social media. (1/6)

Independent Outlet Forced to Shut Down - Lingua Sinica AllAboutMacau is shutting down after the government revoked its license, citing non-compliance with publication laws.

AllAboutMacau (論盡媒體) announced that it will shut down December 20, 2025, after the government revoked its publishing license. Journalists have been barred from the Legislative Assembly since October 2024, with three facing criminal charges.

As part of his trip to Asia, President #Trump met with President #Xi on Thursday in South Korea. Trump’s visit has become a major topic on #ChineseSocialMedia and the meeting is now one of the most searched topics on #Baidu. 1/6

Episode 5 | Labour and (De)Industrialisation in East Asia | Made in China Journal Over the past few years, industrial policy and manufacturing capacity, especially in the high-tech sector, have been at the centre of great power rivalry between the United States and China. The White...

Beyond the headlines, why did manufacturing move to East Asia, who are the workers, and what are the social costs? I'm so honored to have Anru Lee and Ya-Wen Lei on Ep.5 of 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China @madeinchinajournal.com to discuss gender, labor, and (de)industrialization in China and Taiwan:

das ist ja so wahnsinnig, das einmal so umfänglich aufgetischt zu kriegen

Beijing’s War on ‘Negative Energy’ Executive Summary: The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has launched a new “clean and bright” campaign that redefines online frustration over youth unemployment, gender conflict, and social an...

China Brief – Beijing’s War on 'Negative Energy’
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Translations: As CAC Tackles “Malicious” Negativity Online, Popular Influencers Zhang Xuefeng, Hu Chenfeng, Lan Zhanfei Hit With Bans Amid a new two-month “Clear and Bright” campaign by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to clean up internet content that “maliciously incites” polarization, pessimism, anxiety, and other neg...

More on the recent CAC campaign against "negative energy" online:

Very sober #Chinese readout of call between Wang Yi and #JohannWadephul. "Mutal respect" (相互尊重) as a description of the status quo. Interesting narratical linkage: CN has supported GER reunification->GER should support (and understand) CN's quest regarding #Taiwan
www.news.cn/politics/lea...

Rami Elhanan und Bassam Aramin: "Ich kann mir mein Leben nicht mehr ohne diesen Feind vorstellen" Beide verloren ihre Tochter im Nahostkonflikt, der eine ist Israeli, der andere Palästinenser. Ihre unwahrscheinliche Freundschaft entstand aus überwältigendem Schmerz.

Wow! "(...) Elhanan: Für uns ist Hoffnung eine moralische Verpflichtung. Wir zeigen, dass es selbst Menschen, die den höchsten vorstellbaren Preis gezahlt haben, möglich ist, eine neue Position zu beziehen." Das geht nah und macht Mut, danke @zeitonline.bsky.social www.zeit.de/familie/2025...

To my knowledge #religion is not often a topic of a CCP Politbureau study session. The official readout reinforces the necessity for religious circles to submit e.g. by having a - #CCP-defined -"#Chinese civilization-based identity 中华文化认同感" through "self-transformation". www.news.cn/politics/lea...

Made In Ethiopia is a film that lifts the curtain on China’s historic but misunderstood impact on Africa, and explores contemporary Ethiopia at a moment of profound crisis. Join us and @chinafile.bsky.social for a screening on October 6, followed by a Q&A with co-directors Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan.

The Microchip Titans | Los Angeles Review of Books Mason Wong reviews three books related to US-China tech industries and global competition.

New review essay out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social by @masonlwong.bsky.social on three books, one of them Honghong Tinn's Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Wow. @chinaspektrum.bsky.social !

The latest decision by major Western countries to recognize #Palestine has attracted significant attention on the Chinese social media platform #Zhihu and in the online magazine #ThePaper 澎湃. 1/6

Worin sich die Deutschen einig sind Ist Deutschland ein gespaltenes Land? Die Frage nach der Polarisierung sorgt regelmäßig für Debatten. Doch aktuelle Erhebungen zeigen: Bei vielen großen Themen sind sich die Deutschen erstaunlich eini...

Informative, komplexe und teils widersprüchliche Befunde - Ambivalenzen, die Menschen wohl ein Stück weit ausmachen - die aber auch signalisieren, dass man uns was zu-muten darf.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesel...

联合国教科文组织国际STEM教育研究所在上海成立_部门动态_中国政府网 教育部部长怀进鹏代表中国政府与联合国教科文组织总干事阿祖莱签署国际STEM教育研究所《所址协定》和《运行协定》。

First #UNESCO International Institute for STEM #Education (IISTEM) established in Shanghai...hmm....#China's ambition for setting agendas, getting talents and recognition. No competing initiatives due to lack of money or low prioritization?
www.gov.cn/lianbo/bumen...

New regulations in China target online religious content China on Monday (Sept. 15) published regulations that forbid online religious content on unapproved platforms and use of the internet to instruct children or form youth groups, among other restriction...

Mainly tightening ideological/political control in the name of anti-corruption/commercialization...
"New regulations in #China target online #religious content"
www.christiandaily.com/news/new-reg...

On September 17, the #European Commission announced a proposal to suspend trade preferences with #Israel and sanction extremist ministers and violent settlers. The proposal is still pending approval by the Council. Chinese netizens have shared their comments on this matter. (1/6)

Sehr hilfreich (für mich), danke @derlampenputzer.bsky.social . Auch ein weiterer Beleg dafür, dass online/offline "hybrid" ist und u.a. Abgrenzung und Ego-Stärkung ("Wir/Bewegungs"-Gefühl), Abstumpfung (virtueller /realer Schuss und Tod) schafft. Gerne mehr darüber-mir so unklar und umheimlich.

“… people who organize strikes at the production plant so that tanks are never built, and people who convert weapons factories into spaces that nurture and sustain life.”

I spoke with @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social and @chinafile.bsky.social's Jessica Batke about their recent Locknet report, which provides a brilliant, concise, detailed but accessible overview of China's online censorship system.

#quantification #china #security Quantifiers for a “especially important online security issue” are interesting, e.g. (quick population stats needed...)
“(..) 3.影响一个或多个省级行政区50%以上人口，(...) 6.省级以上党政机关门户网站、中央重点新闻网站、，导致违法有害信息特大范围传播 (…)（2）通过社交平台转发10万次以上；（3）浏览或点击次数100万以上 (…)”
www.news.cn/politics/202...

404文库 “中国数字时代404文库”是中国数字时代营运的一个被互联网审查屏蔽或删除（404 not found）的文章存档项目。

CDT Chinese "404 Censored Content Archive" (404文库):
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How Tokyo became an unexpected haven for China’s middle class An aspirational generation of Chinese arrivals is beginning to shape Japan’s demographic, social and perhaps even political destiny

Great piece describing the multi-faceted motives of the 润日 ("running to Japan") Chinese people. #china #japan #society
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Very much to the point

Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World In a his new book Breakneck, Dan Wang argues that if the US really wants to compete with China, it needs to focus more on engineering and less on litigating.

Chatted with Dan Wang on his new book for this week's newsletter in @wired.com

Some questions hit close to home as I try to make sense of my lived experience in New York, a city that could build subway 120 years ago, and Wuhan, a city that could build 7 subway lines in 4 years from 2014 to 2018.

Summer Break, Power Intact - China Media Project The surge of headlines for Xi Jinping during his recent visit to Tibet, coming shortly after the annual lull of the official Beidaihe vacation period, was another sign that the Chinese leader continue...

The surge of headlines for Xi Jinping during his recent visit to Tibet, coming shortly after the annual lull of the official Beidaihe vacation period, was another sign the Chinese leader continues to dominate.

Berliners if you're on the other side of town and don't want to go all the way to Friedrichshain, you can get the bookshop to ship this to you! 🔗 bit.ly/shakespeare-revolution

【真理部指令】2025年第三季度涉意识形态领域风险提示 2025年8月28日，推特用户@whyyoutouzhele（李老师不是你老师）发布了匿名网友投稿的成都网安内部文件《2025年第三季度涉意识形态领域风险提示》，其中罗列了多项“重点风险提示”......

What event/topical fields in Q3 does the CCP leadership consider to be "ideologically risky"? Issues related to the beginning of the new school/university semester are rather surprising for me-shows high anxiety level. @chinadigitaltimes.net
chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/7207...
#china #media