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A pair of recently surfaced screenshots appear to offer unusual detail about a special month-long operation, held in Beijing and involving over 40 Ministry of Public Security computer specialists...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/05/translation-special-one-month-reconnaissance-operation-against-overseas-cyber-forces/

Over the past two weeks, the Biden administration has issued a series of regulations intended to halt China’s development of advanced technologies. The measures restrict the export of advanced ...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/10/new-u-s-export-controls-aim-to-curtail-chinas-access-to-advanced-semiconductor-technology/

Popular online writer Shen Maohua, who writes under the pen name Wei Zhou, is known for his trenchant and often humorous essays, lively social media comments sections, and occasional brushes with...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/07/translation-why-did-my-comment-disappear/

As citizens revolt against never-ending lockdowns and local governments “resolutely struggle against all distortions, doubts and denials” of Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy, as recently orde...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/06/citizens-and-state-media-outraged-by-government-abuse-of-henan-health-codes/

On Thursday, the Canadian government announced that it will ban Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE from its 5G networks. The move comes as the Biden administration debates imposing further sanction...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/05/canada-kicks-out-huawei-u-s-weighs-further-sanctions-on-hikvision-china-invests-in-undermining-sanctions/

On Monday of last week, Malaysian musician Namewee (Wee Meng Chee, 黃明志) learned that his YouTube account had been hacked and all of its content deleted. His account, created in 2006, had 3....

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/04/youtube-accounts-of-musician-namewee-and-ukraine-vlogger-wang-jixian-forced-offline-now-restored/

A group of students under the impression they had discovered a WeChat “bug” that hides the phrase “200 jin of dumplings” (roughly 220 pounds) had in fact stumbled upon an obscure insult f...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/03/wechat-bug-turns-out-to-be-obscure-insult-for-xi-jinping/

This week saw the proliferation of COVID conspiracy theories on Chinese social media, the suppression of a popular hashtag about the Xuzhou trafficking and abuse case, and a Global Times broadsid...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/03/covid-conspiracies-hashtag-suppression-and-a-broadside-aimed-at-the-great-translation-movement/

While the official position from Beijing is that China remains a neutral observer of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Chinese state media content suggests otherwise. Since the start of the war, coverag...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/03/chinese-state-media-reinforces-russian-disinformation-about-war-in-ukraine/

A Bilibili content moderator’s death has renewed debate on China’s culture of overwork six months after the Supreme People’s Court ruled “996” working schedules illegal, and just a year...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/02/bilibili-content-moderators-death-renews-debate-about-overwork/

Digital censorship in China, while algorithmic, vast, and multifarious, has a human element—which means the vagaries of individual censors’ moods have the potential to impact online punishmen...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/02/ask-why-on-weibo-and-youll-only-be-suspended-longer/

As the Australian public discovered earlier this week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison no longer has access to his WeChat account. Morrison had opened his account in 2019 to court Chinese-Australia...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/01/australian-prime-minister-fumbles-wechat-account-in-election-season/

An end-of-year listicle created by China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, is a time capsule of the Chinese Communist Party’s view on Chinese digital culture—wha...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/01/cyberspace-administration-of-china-lists-500-paeans-to-positive-energy/

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the country’s top internet regulator, is reshaping internet and AI governance. Following the Data Security Law and Personal Information and Protect...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/01/cac-roundup-recommendation-algorithm-regulations-cybersecurity-review-for-overseas-listings-and-fines-for-weibo-and-douban/

A Chinese province has commissioned the construction of a surveillance system aimed at tracking journalists and foreign students, among other groups. Henan, a province in central China, commissio...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/12/henan-trains-surveillance-on-journalists-students/