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Z-Library, an online database with tens of millions of pirated and uncensored books and articles available for free download, is closing its Chinese WeChat account. In a statement posted to WeCha...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/pirated-e-book-site-under-pressure-in-china-endangering-access-to-banned-books/

56 years after her wrongful execution, the poet-journalist turned dissident Lin Zhao is still mourned in China. Lin, a Peking University student persecuted during the anti-Rightist Campaign, was ...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/quiet-mourning-for-dissident-lin-zhao-on-56th-anniversary-of-her-execution/

On April 14, Sina News Hot Topics published a lengthy article on Weibo under the clickbait headline “The First Batch of DINKs, Exposed: Where Are They Now, and Do They All Regret Not Having Kid...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/weibo-users-discern-pro-natalist-propaganda-in-sina-dinks-article/

Hu Chenfeng, a Chinese content creator who first rose to fame making videos about poverty, has been suspended from Bilibili and Weibo after a livestream viewer asked him:  “Do you think Xi Jin...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/quote-of-the-day-do-you-think-xi-jinping-is-a-dictator/

On March 16, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that the Chinese economy was off to a good start in 2024, with reported 5.3% year-on-year GDP growth in the first quarter of the yea...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/quote-of-the-day-official-disposable-income-figures-derided-as-todays-daily-dose-of-humor/

A recent WeChat post from oft-controversial entrepreneur, publicity hound, and philanthropist Chen Guangbiao urging the Chinese government to keep its hands off people’s pocketbooks has attract...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/quote-of-the-day-stop-obsessing-about-ordinary-peoples-pocket-change-they-know-better-than-you-where-that-money-ought-to-be-spent/

Beijing’s half-marathon is under investigation after three runners from Kenya and Ethiopia appeared to allow a Chinese runner to win. The odd ending of the race saw Willy Mnangat and Robert Ket...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/netizen-voices-fixed-matches-rigged-races-whats-going-on-with-chinese-sport/

A German “pro-China” influencer became the latest target of nationalist ire after her writing on Germany’s legalization of recreational cannabis use was interpreted as a call for China to �...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/chinese-social-media-ablaze-with-discussion-of-germany-legalizing-weed/

At an April 8 press conference to unveil IM Motors’ new L6 electric sedan, company CEO Liu Tao enumerated the many sacrifices his workers had made, which suggested to some observers that the co...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/im-motors-ceo-liu-tao-praises-overwork-violation-of-labor-laws/

One of the subtler ways Chinese internet users voice their displeasure with the status quo is through “pinkfishing” (粉红钓鱼, fěnhóng diàoyú), tricking nationalist “little pinks”...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/nationalists-pinkfished-into-calling-mao-zedong-a-traitor/

Over a whirlwind two weeks of diplomacy in Beijing, China has sought to strengthen its ties to both the United States and Russia—a difficult balancing act. Xi Jinping took a phone call with U.S...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/whirlwind-weeks-of-diplomacy-in-beijing-center-on-ukraine-green-tech/

On April 6, a Weibo user from Zhejiang province reported a case of local anti-fraud center overreach that resulted in his bank cards and Alipay account being frozen after he made a work-related c...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/tales-of-anti-fraud-center-overreach-freezing-your-bank-cards-for-your-own-good/

In its annual report on the state of media freedom in China last year, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) described how authorities used COVID prevention measures to “strangle�...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/journalists-document-decline-of-media-freedom-in-china-hong-kong/

A Party organization’s flippant invocation of “World War III” using video game terms went viral over the weekend, thrilling some nationalists but perturbing other Chinese netizens. The vide...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/communist-youth-league-world-war-iii-hype-video-goes-viral-before-censors-step-in/

Last week, the bodies of eight Chinese nationals were discovered off the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, after their boat capsized along a route often used by migrants attempting to reach the U.S. This ...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/chinese-migrants-face-perilous-journeys-en-route-to-the-u-s/