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China hits COVID peak, but Lunar New Year travel may cause a new wave
China’s health ministry announced that the number of critical COVID patients has already peaked, but official data has yet to mollify public concerns about the swell of anticipated infections over the Lunar New Year holiday.
Editor’s note for Monday, December 5, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Opinion: Why Yale Daily News’ claim to journalistic ethics is untenable
A group of student journalists from China argue that they should be allowed to publish under pseudonyms, if using their real names would put them or their families in danger.
CCTV alters World Cup broadcast to minimize shots of maskless fans
“Is this the same world as ours?” one Chinese viewer posted on social media.
The Beijing protest that turned thousands into ‘digital ghosts’
What happens when WeChat automatically suspends thousands of accounts due to a sensitive keyboard? People become furious — and apologetic.
‘Return to Dust,’ homegrown arthouse hit depicting rural life, gone from Chinese streaming sites
“Return to Dust” built buzz among Chinese moviegoers over the summer mainly through word of mouth, eventually becoming the top film at the local box office earlier this month. Now, it’s nowhere to be found on streaming services.
New ‘Minions’ movie gets China-exclusive ending where villains turn good
No bad guys are uncaught in the Chinese version of the animated film Minions: The Rise of Gru, which opened in the country over the weekend.
Shanghai residents angered by forced-entry disinfection as Beijing censors WHO director’s comments
The glittering metropolis of Shanghai is entering its sixth week of government-mandated lockdowns as China pursues its COVID-zero strategy despite widespread skepticism about its efficacy and growing protests from exhausted residents.
WeChat censorship of video detailing lockdown nightmare in Shanghai sparks outrage and protests
The six-minute clip, originally uploaded to WeChat in the early hours this morning, is an unflinching and candid documentation of what happened in Shanghai, where an ongoing COVID lockdown has made procuring food and accessing non-COVID-related medical treatment a struggle for the city’s 25 million residents.
Lockdown eases in Shanghai
Today in pandemic news from China: Despite an ease in quarantine rules, troublesome accounts of official incompetence and of residents being treated badly are still popping up in Shanghai.
Chinese censors struggle to keep up with Megan Thee Stallion at Coachella
“Hang in there, Puxi people! This song is for you!”
Shanghai reports first COVID-related deaths as lockdowns stretch on
Despite three COVID deaths and shocking accounts from quarantine facilities, Beijing is sticking to its pandemic playbook.
Editor’s Note for Wednesday, March 30, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Academia struggles to survive under China’s closing mind.
Chinese government pressures scholars to withdraw from online panels at international conference
At an international conference, at least five scholars based in China faced pressure from Chinese officials to withdraw.
Eco-activism, sustainability, and food security in China: A conversation with Sonalie Figueiras
Sonalie Figueiras, founder of Hong Kong-based sustainability platform Green Queen, talks about China’s environment and food security goals, and challenges that censorship presents for eco-activism.
Justice Department accuses five people of intimidating Chinese dissidents in the United States
Five people have been charged by the United States Department of Justice for intimidating U.S.-based Chinese dissidents on behalf of the People’s Republic of China.
Editor’s Note for Thursday, March 3, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: The China Project has been under a sustained attack from nationalist internet trolls.
‘We’re going backward’: Chinese viewers upset by censorship of LGBTQ content in ‘Friends’
China’s media nannies have censored ‘Friends,’ even though the classic American sitcom, much loved in China, used to be available in all its unbowdlerized glory.
‘Unprecedented hurdles’ for foreign journalists in China
The foreign press corp in China, still coping with the visa cancellations of early 2020, says that Beijing has only dialed up its harassment of journalists in China, including of Chinese staff at international news bureaus.
Editor’s note for Thursday, January 27, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Is the World Trade Organization back in play? The European Union launched a case against China at the WTO over Beijing’s trade pressure on Lithuania. Meanwhile, the trade body ruled in China’s favor in a decade-long dispute with the U.S. Separately, U.S. senators urged the Biden administration to act after a new report found that Chinese censorship had hurt companies like Google and Apple.