Hello, readers! The China Project Weekly Briefing details the most important China news from the past week. It also comes in the form of a...
China’s state media agencies have been buying large quantities of ads and promoted posts on Facebook and Twitter for years. But their budget seems to...
As Sophia Yan and Roland Oliphant of The Telegraph reports, three senior Hong Kong police officers held a small roundtable with foreign media and said some...
Hong Kong artist Jackson Wang pulls out of 88Rising festival after expressing support for Beijing
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In an attempt to construct an unfavorable narrative about the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong for the eyes of the rest of the world, hundreds of thousands of mainlanders have bypassed the Great Firewall, China’s massive internet filtering system, and flocked to Instagram to denounce the protesters and exhibit solidarity as mainlanders. Congregating around the hashtag #whatashametohongkong, these tech-savvy internet users from the mainland, who are mostly young people with the knowledge of how to use a virtual private network (VPN) service, have been spreading various forms of pro-CCP messages on the platform.
The BBC reports that “squads of riot police” arrived at the Hong Kong International Airport shortly before midnight local time after a second day of protests that...
It’s been a relatively quiet news day in most of China today, but not in Hong Kong, where the world’s eighth-busiest airport was shut down...
The Taiwanese fruit tea chain Yifang recently found itself battered by — successively — mainland Chinese internet users, Hong Kongers, and Taiwanese customers. They’re not...