Sci-Tech – China Digital Times (CDT)

In Peter Hessler’s latest piece for The New Yorker, “How Chinese Students Experience America,” he notes that “COVID, guns, anti-Asian violence, and diplomatic relations have complicated t...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/tighter-u-s-immigration-controls-on-inbound-chinese-students-stoke-concern/

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/

Two Chinese manufacturers of video surveillance equipment—state-owned Hikvision and publicly traded company Dahua Technology—have joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) in an attempt...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/quote-of-the-day-hikvision-and-dahua-claim-to-support-the-ten-principles-of-the-u-n-global-compact-on-human-rights-labour-environment-and-anti-corruption/

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/

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/

Chinese social media has been awash with interest in Netflix’s new series “3 Body Problem,” an adaptation based on the Hugo Award-winning novel by Chinese author Liu Cixin. On the day of it...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/quote-of-the-day-if-we-dont-face-our-history-squarely-how-can-we-hope-to-have-a-future/

Film censorship has long plagued China’s creative arts industry and stifled foreign products seeking domestic Chinese audiences. The shrinking space for artistic expression, along with rising n...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/03/netflixs-3-body-problem-sparks-debates-about-censorship-history-and-cinematic-adaptations/

Xi Jinping’s efforts to point the way forward on China becoming a “major cyber-power” have met growing resistance from foreign governments. On Monday, the U.S. and U.K. announced sanctions ...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/03/u-s-u-k-impose-sanctions-on-chinese-state-affiliated-hackers/

Among Xi Jinping’s many Party-bestowed titles and hundreds of banned netizen nicknames is one that points to his penchant for claiming personal leadership over and insight into seemingly everyt...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/03/compass-in-chief-the-240-topics-xi-jinping-has-pointed-the-way-forward-on/

TikTok, the popular social media platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has been under intense pressure from the U.S. government over the past few weeks. It now faces a Congressional bill, ...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/03/u-s-pushback-against-tiktok-global-trends-toward-cyber-sovereignty/

Last month, an otherwise innocuous report at Sixth Tone on cloning of Tibetan cattle referred to the region only by its Chinese name, Xizang, falling in line with a recent push by Chinese authori...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/02/words-of-the-week-handing-someone-a-knife-and-the-flattening-of-sixth-tone/

China’s population decline looks set to continue despite the possibility of a traditional Dragon-Year “baby bump” and signs of a post-pandemic uptick in marriage rates after nine successive...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/02/cost-of-raising-children-in-china-is-worlds-second-highest/

A major data leak of internal documents from Chinese cybersecurity firm i-Soon, also known as Anxun, has shed new light on the inner world of China’s cyberespionage and its state-backed hackers...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/02/i-soon-data-leak-provides-glimpse-into-chinas-ecosystem-of-cyber-espionage/

This week, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) released a report titled “Censorship Practices of the People’s Republic of China.” The report outlines the nature an...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/02/report-outlines-mechanisms-of-chinas-censorship-apparatus/