Last month, a Chinese court sentenced the civil rights activists and lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi to fourteen and twelve years in prison for “subverting state power,” a charge arising from an informal gathering of fellow activists the two had put together in 2019 in the southern coastal city of Xiamen. The following conversation, excerpted and translated, comes from an
The mother of the man who was jailed for posting a photo of the daughter of ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Xi Jinping has reportedly wri
Within the evolution of traditional and social media globally, a number of authoritarian governments have developed a policy instrument to control netizens call