Li Muzi
China’s Official Communist Youth League Account: Degree or No Degree, You’ll End Up Delivering Food
The Communist Youth League posted a graphic about graduate unemployment. Chinese users said it had finally told the truth. On June 7, the first day of China's gaokao, a social media account run by the...
Chongqing Animal Cruelty Case Triggers Street Protests and Dozens of Arrests
China has no national animal cruelty law, a gap that local police in Chongqing have repeatedly cited to avoid acting on complaints against a man accused of luring pets from their owners under false pretenses...
Chongqing Protesters Demand Answers in Animal Abuse Case Amid Heavy Censorship
Outrage over allegations of animal abuse linked to a controversial Chinese internet figure escalated into street demonstrations in Chongqing this week, prompting a large-scale police response and renewed scrutiny of how authorities handle sensitive incidents...
Nanjing Activist Shi Tingfu, ‘Never Forget June 4’ Street Speaker, Serving Three-Year Sentence in Xinjiang
Nanjing activist Shi Tingfu, known as the first person in China’s street protests to publicly give speeches urging people to “Never Forget June 4,” is 67 years old. A human rights defender, Shi actively supported...
Britain’s Embassy in China Posted a Tiananmen Memorial Video, Beijing Censored It Within Seconds
On June 4, 2026, the British Embassy in Beijing marked the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre by posting a short commemorative video to its official account on Weibo, the Chinese social media platform...
China Bars Tiananmen Massacre Families From Cemetery for the First Time in Three Decades
For three decades, one small, heavily policed act of remembrance had been permitted. Bereaved parents and relatives who lost family members in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre were allowed, each June 4, to visit a...
Deadly Shanxi Explosion Sparks Questions Over Safety Failures and Cover-Ups in China
A massive gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has reignited concerns about workplace safety, regulatory oversight, and corruption within the country’s mining industry, with critics arguing that the tragedy was not simply...
Tornadoes Hit Southern and Northern China Within Hours, Leaving a Trail of Destroyed Homes
According to reports by Sohu, citing the Guangzhou Meteorological Bureau, a moderate tornado touched down in the Aotou township of Conghua district, Guangzhou, at around 5 p.m. on May 23, flattening the second floor of...
China’s Academic World Rocked as Whistleblower Exposes Research Fraud, Plagiarism
China’s academic world has been thrown into turmoil after a former doctoral student launched a series of high-profile allegations accusing some of the country’s most prominent scholars of suspected research misconduct and data manipulation. The...
Video of Shenzhen Man Seeking to Run for Mayor Scrubbed From China’s Internet
A young Chinese blogger drew widespread attention online this week after standing outside the Shenzhen municipal government building and publicly declaring that he wanted to run for mayor to “speak for ordinary people” struggling to...
Chinese Netizens Slam State Media for Glorifying Elderly Labor: ‘A Toxic Message’
A recent report by Chinese state-affiliated media praising an 80-year-old woman for continuing to work has triggered intense backlash across Chinese social media, with critics accusing authorities of romanticizing economic hardship and normalizing the idea...
Guangxi Earthquake Kills 2 and Topples 13 Buildings in Liuzhou
According to the Associated Press, a pre-dawn earthquake tore through Liuzhou, a city in China's southern Guangxi region, early Monday, killing two people, leaving one missing, and forcing more than 7,000 residents from their homes....