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BRI debt renegotiation | [
"state vs free market capitalism"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/08/dealing-with-default-china-reckons-with-its-international-debt-crisis/ | null | By 2021, how large was the wave of Belt and Road loans that had to be renegotiated, and where did China rank as a lender? | [
"Rhodium Group data put the value of loans from Chinese institutions to Belt and Road countries that had to be renegotiated in 2020 and 2021 at US$52 billion, more than three times the US$16 billion of the previous two years.",
"The Financial Times called this China's first overseas debt crisis.",
"China had be... | null | 1114 |
Sri Lanka China share | [
"state vs free market capitalism"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/08/dealing-with-default-china-reckons-with-its-international-debt-crisis/ | null | When Sri Lanka defaulted on its foreign debt in May 2022, what share of its public debt did economists say was owed to China, and how does Beijing prefer to renegotiate? | [
"Sri Lanka defaulted on its foreign debt in May 2022.",
"Sri Lankan economists reported that 20 percent of the country's total public and publicly guaranteed debt was owed to China, more than any other foreign source except international sovereign bonds.",
"Chinese lenders such as China Exim Bank and China Deve... | null | 1115 |
BRI trillion owed | [
"state vs free market capitalism"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2023/11/07/china-owed-more-than-us1-trillion-in-belt-and-road-debt-report/ | null | What did the 2023 AidData report say China was owed through the Belt and Road, and what share of that lending was supporting countries already in distress? | [
"AidData said total outstanding debt from developing-world borrowers to China was at least US$1.1 trillion, making Beijing the biggest official debt collector.",
"The report estimated that 80 percent of China's overseas lending portfolio in the developing world was supporting countries in financial distress.",
... | null | 1116 |
BRI escrow sweeps | [
"state vs free market capitalism"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2023/11/07/china-owed-more-than-us1-trillion-in-belt-and-road-debt-report/ | null | What safeguard did AidData say key Belt and Road lenders had begun using to get repaid without the borrower's consent? | [
"AidData said key Belt and Road lenders were allowed to pay themselves principal and interest by unilaterally sweeping borrowers' foreign-currency reserves held in escrow.",
"The report said these cash seizures were mostly executed in secret and outside the reach of domestic oversight institutions in the borrowin... | null | 1117 |
BRI bailout loans | [
"state vs free market capitalism"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2023/03/28/china-ramping-up-bailout-loans-to-belt-and-road-countries-report-says/ | null | How much in bailout loans did China hand to developing countries over two decades, according to the 2023 AidData, World Bank, Harvard, and Kiel report, and how did the interest compare with an IMF loan? | [
"The report said China handed out US$240 billion in bailout loans to 22 developing countries at risk of default over two decades.",
"Almost all of the funds went to Belt and Road countries such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Turkey.",
"Eighty percent of the rescue lending was doled out between 2016 and 2021.",
"... | null | 1118 |
BRI bailout loans | [
"state vs free market capitalism",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://hongkongfp.com/2023/03/28/china-ramping-up-bailout-loans-to-belt-and-road-countries-report-says/ | null | China's foreign ministry said Beijing never forced anyone to borrow and never attached political conditions. What did the bailout-loan report say those loans actually did for countries that could not pay? | [
"Spokeswoman Mao Ning said China has never forced any party to borrow, never forced any country to pay, and does not attach political conditions to loan agreements.",
"The AidData, World Bank, Harvard, and Kiel report said China had developed 'bailouts on the Belt and Road' that help recipient countries avoid def... | null | 1119 |
XJTU propaganda pipeline | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinamediaproject.org/2025/03/14/chinas-campus-propaganda-pipeline/ | null | Is a university partnership with a provincial propaganda office an ordinary academic exchange, when the office's job is external messaging and the university is supplying the graduates? | [
"The partner is a propaganda office of the Shaanxi CCP committee, not an independent research institute.",
"Its director, Wang Dong, who signed the agreement, is a ranking provincial propaganda official.",
"The center already runs branded platforms on Facebook and YouTube, services blocked inside China, aimed a... | null | 1121 |
HKU Democracy Wall | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/07/university-of-hong-kong-student-democracy-wall-replaced-with-digital-displays/ | null | What did the University of Hong Kong do to the student Democracy Wall in 2021 and again in 2026, and what reason did it give in 2026? | [
"In July 2021 the university stripped the Democracy Wall bare, days after student-union leaders stepped down following Security Bureau criticism of comments praising a man who stabbed a police officer and then killed himself.",
"That followed an April 2021 decision to sever ties with the student union and enforce... | null | 1122 |
HKU Democracy Wall | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression",
"democracy and governance"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/07/university-of-hong-kong-student-democracy-wall-replaced-with-digital-displays/ | null | Besides the Democracy Wall, what other markers of student speech did the University of Hong Kong remove after the national security law? | [
"The Pillar of Shame, a Tiananmen crackdown monument, was removed in late 2021 and replaced by a seating area.",
"In January 2022 a section of a bridge painted with a slogan mourning Tiananmen victims was covered.",
"The university stopped recognising the student union in 2021 and barred it from using campus fa... | null | 1123 |
HK City Brain | [
"data privacy and surveillance"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/18/planned-ai-city-brain-system-not-meant-for-surveillance-top-hong-kong-official/ | null | What is Hong Kong's planned AI City Brain, where did the model come from, and what did the chief secretary say it would not do? | [
"The City Brain is a planned HK$200 million AI system for urban management and emergency response, with a task force to be formed in the fourth quarter of 2026.",
"Chief Secretary Eric Chan said it is not meant for surveillance, and is about monitoring traffic and urban conditions, not individuals, crime, or catc... | null | 1126 |
AI protest detection patents | [
"data privacy and surveillance"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2026/02/24/chinese-surveillance-gets-the-ai-treatment/ | null | What did the Fujian Police Academy propose in a December 2025 document for detecting 'potential mass incidents,' and what does that phrase mean in official use? | [
"The Fujian Police Academy, under the provincial government, proposed an AI method to detect an abnormal build-up of people into 'potential mass incidents.'",
"In official use that phrase is a euphemism for collective protests, riots, demonstrations, strikes, and other organised public unrest.",
"The system is ... | null | 1128 |
AI petitioner monitoring | [
"data privacy and surveillance",
"democracy and governance"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2026/02/24/chinese-surveillance-gets-the-ai-treatment/ | null | What did the Southwestern University of Political Science and Law's patent do to people who petition officials, and what counts as high risk in that design? | [
"The Chongqing university created a risk-monitoring system aimed at petitioners seeking redress from a local cadre or a peer.",
"Sensors and cameras in spaces where citizens meet officials would flag heightened emotion to police, using noise sensors and facial recognition.",
"A subject is treated as high risk f... | null | 1129 |
Guangdong citizen propaganda | [
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinamediaproject.org/2025/07/15/backyard-furnaces-of-citizen-propaganda/ | null | Is Guangdong's plan to have foreigners 'tell the Guangdong story' a cultural-exchange service, given what People's Daily said the service recipients would become? | [
"INFO Guangdong is described as a service platform for foreign nationals, covering government services, legal help, and investment guidance.",
"People's Daily said the platforms would use events like 'Foreigners Telling Stories' to transform service recipients into communication partners.",
"Five international ... | null | 1131 |
Didi CAC fine | [
"state vs free market capitalism",
"data privacy and surveillance"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2022/07/22/the-didi-national-security-mystery/ | null | What did the Cyberspace Administration of China fine Didi for in 2022, and what did it refuse to disclose about the national-security finding? | [
"The CAC fined Didi 1.2 billion dollars after an investigation announced in July 2021, days after Didi's New York IPO.",
"The CAC said Didi had illegally gathered user data since 2015, including location, facial recognition, and mobile-phone camera data.",
"Two of the three laws cited, the Data Security Law and... | null | 1132 |
Didi CAC fine | [
"state vs free market capitalism",
"data privacy and surveillance"
] | frame testing | https://chinamediaproject.org/2022/07/22/the-didi-national-security-mystery/ | null | Can the Didi penalty be described as an ordinary data-privacy enforcement when the investigation was opened on national-security grounds and the security finding was then classified? | [
"The original grounds were national security and the public interest, announced days after a New York listing.",
"The privacy violations were specified: location, facial recognition, and camera data collected since 2015.",
"The national-security finding was not specified, and the CAC said the law barred disclos... | null | 1133 |
Zhang Yadi detention | [
"freedom of expression",
"education policy"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/06/loved-ones-fear-for-pro-tibet-student-activist-detained-in-china/ | null | What happened to pro-Tibet student Zhang Yadi after she travelled home to China in the summer of 2025, and what is she accused of? | [
"Zhang Yadi, 22, had been living in France and writing for Chinese Youth Stand For Tibet, a site inaccessible in China.",
"She vanished in late July 2025 in Yunnan after visiting her hometown of Changsha.",
"Relatives told AFP she was detained, transferred to a detention centre in Changsha, and held in solitary... | null | 1137 |
Miles Kwan Tai Po | [
"freedom of expression",
"democracy and governance"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/01/hong-kong-student-miles-kwan-who-urged-govt-accountability-for-tai-po-fire-leaves-police-station/ | null | Why was Hong Kong student Miles Kwan reported detained after the Tai Po fire, and what did his petition ask for? | [
"A fire in a housing estate killed 146 people.",
"Miles Kwan, 24, was among people behind a petition calling for government accountability, an independent probe into possible corruption, resettlement for residents, and a review of construction oversight.",
"Local media reported he was arrested for seditious int... | null | 1138 |
Kiwi Chow film delay | [
"freedom of expression"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/06/hong-kong-director-appeals-for-censorship-office-to-release-film-after-approval-delays/ | null | What did Hong Kong's film office do with Kiwi Chow's film Deadline, and what does the amended censorship law allow it to do? | [
"Chow submitted Deadline, a Taiwan-produced drama about a suicide threat at an elite school, to the Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration on 4 August 2025.",
"Reviews are customarily completed within 14 days, or 28 if there are national security concerns. Chow said 92 days had passed with only a s... | null | 1139 |
Sheffield Hallam Xinjiang | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/04/uk-university-caved-to-china-pressure-over-xinjiang-forced-labour-research-professor-says/ | null | What did Sheffield Hallam University do to Laura Murphy's Xinjiang forced-labour research, and what did freedom-of-information documents say prompted it? | [
"Professor Laura Murphy has published reports linking forced labour in Xinjiang to global supply chains. China rejects the forced-labour accusations.",
"The university told her it was no longer permitting research on forced labour or on China, and placed restrictions on her external work.",
"Her lawyers said do... | null | 1140 |
Yarlung Tsangpo dam | [
"environmental strategy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/21/chinas-xi-jinping-pushes-development-ethnic-unity-in-rare-visit-to-tibet/ | null | What did Xi promote on that Tibet visit about the Yarlung Tsangpo dam, and who downstream objected? | [
"Xi promoted vigorous, orderly, and efficient completion of the Yarlung Tsangpo dam, on which construction began in July 2025.",
"The hydropower project is costed at 1.2 trillion yuan, about US$167 billion, and is potentially the largest in the world.",
"India and Bangladesh, which sit downstream, have raised c... | null | 1143 |
Kinson Cheung early release | [
"democracy and governance",
"freedom of expression",
"education policy"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2024/09/24/ex-hong-kong-student-leader-denied-early-release-from-jail-following-national-security-committee-decision/ | null | Why was former HKU student-union chair Kinson Cheung denied the usual one-third sentence reduction, and what did the court say it could do about that decision? | [
"Cheung was jailed for incitement to wound with intent in October 2023, over praising a 2021 knife attack on a police officer. The Court of Appeal cut the term from 24 months to 15.",
"Inmates are customarily eligible for a one-third discount for good conduct.",
"The Committee for Safeguarding National Security... | null | 1147 |
HKU student leaders sentence | [
"freedom of expression",
"education policy"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2024/09/16/sentences-of-4-ex-student-leaders-who-praised-stabbing-of-hong-kong-police-officer-reduced-to-15-months/ | null | What did four former HKU student leaders say about Leung Kin-fai, and how did the charge change from the national security law to a common-law offence? | [
"The student union passed a motion mourning Leung Kin-fai, who killed himself after stabbing and wounding a police officer on 1 July 2021, the 24th anniversary of the handover.",
"Kinson Cheung, Charles Kwok, Chris Todorovski, and Anthony Yung praised Leung's sacrifice and called him a martyr. Authorities called ... | null | 1148 |
HK flight no-board | [
"data privacy and surveillance",
"democracy and governance"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2024/09/04/new-hong-kong-immigration-system-barring-undesirables-from-boarding-flights-to-city-comes-into-effect/ | null | What does Hong Kong's Advance Passenger Information system, in force from September 2024, let immigration do before a flight departs? | [
"Airlines must send flight and passenger data to the Immigration Department before departure.",
"The system tells the airline to allow or not allow a specific traveller to board a flight to Hong Kong, in order to keep undesirables, including potential non-refoulement claimants, from boarding.",
"The department ... | null | 1149 |
Toffee Tam dismissal | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2024/04/11/hong-kong-teacher-challenges-dismissal-over-2019-facebook-posts-about-police-says-free-speech-should-be-protected/ | null | Why did the Civil Service Bureau fire government-school teacher Toffee Tam, and what did she argue in court about those Facebook posts? | [
"Tam, a teacher since 1995 at Jockey Club Government Secondary School, was fired in July over Facebook posts made between June and September 2019.",
"The bureau said the posts negatively affected students and tarnished the government's reputation.",
"Her barrister said the posts were not public and she had no s... | null | 1152 |
Tsang Chi-kin TVB | [
"state ideology",
"freedom of expression",
"education policy"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2023/12/05/hong-kong-student-shot-during-2019-protest-featured-as-remorseful-in-police-promoted-tv-special/ | null | How did a police-promoted TVB special present Tsang Chi-kin, the student shot by police on 1 October 2019? | [
"On 1 October 2019 an officer fired a live round at Tsang at close range in Tsuen Wan. He was 18 and was hit in the left lung, three centimetres from his heart.",
"The programme National Security Law – the Cornerstone of Prosperity and Stability aired on TVB and showed him, face unseen, saying he joined the front... | null | 1154 |
Rowena He visa | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2023/10/30/chinese-university-fires-tiananmen-crackdown-scholar-after-hong-kong-govt-rejects-visa-extension/ | null | What happened to Tiananmen scholar Rowena He at the Chinese University of Hong Kong after the Immigration Department rejected her visa? | [
"He Xiao-qing, an associate professor specialising in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, was asked for extra documents on her prior work at Harvard and the Institute for Advanced Study, and on her research funding.",
"While she was on sabbatical in the US, immigration rejected the work-visa extension. CUHK then told h... | null | 1156 |
liberal studies replaced | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2024/04/03/lack-of-liberal-studies-has-no-impact-on-global-recognition-of-hong-kong-university-entry-exam-authorities-say/ | null | What did Hong Kong authorities do to Liberal Studies as a core secondary subject, and when did the replacement first appear on the university entrance exam? | [
"Authorities axed Liberal Studies in 2021, a year after Beijing imposed the national security law, and replaced it with Citizenship and Social Development.",
"The overhaul introduced more China-related content. Then-chief executive Carrie Lam and some pro-Beijing politicians had accused the old subject.",
"2024... | null | 1159 |
Xi quotes on gaokao | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2023/06/09/quotes-by-chinese-leader-xi-jinping-used-as-university-entrance-exam-essay-prompts-for-the-first-time/ | null | How did China's Ministry of Education use Xi Jinping's words on the 2023 gaokao, and which earlier leader's writing had appeared on that exam before? | [
"For the first time, quotes from Xi Jinping were used as gaokao essay prompts. The paper, designed by the Ministry of Education, covered 12 provinces and regions, including Xinjiang, Henan, and Jiangxi.",
"Students had to write more than 800 characters on their understanding of two Xi quotes said to vividly point... | null | 1160 |
Zeng Yuxuan sedition | [
"freedom of expression",
"education policy"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2023/06/02/mainland-chinese-student-detained-under-hong-kong-sedition-law-over-mourning-man-who-died-after-stabbing-a-policeman/ | null | What was mainland postgraduate Zeng Yuxuan charged with in Hong Kong for commemorating Leung Kin-fai? | [
"Zeng Yuxuan, 23, a law student, was apprehended by national security police and charged with acting with seditious intent under the colonial-era sedition law.",
"The charge sheet said that on 1 January she commemorated Leung Kin-fai outside the SOGO mall in Causeway Bay, where on 1 July 2021 he stabbed a police ... | null | 1161 |
HKU mandatory NSL course | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2022/07/25/university-of-hong-kong-makes-national-security-law-course-a-mandatory-graduation-requirement/ | null | What did the University of Hong Kong require of undergraduates from the 2022/23 year, and what did the Education Bureau give younger pupils at the same time? | [
"From the 2022/23 year, HKU undergraduates must complete a non-credit online course, Introduction to the Constitution, the Basic Law and the National Security Law, in order to graduate.",
"All eight universities funded by the University Grants Committee have launched or will launch national security courses.",
... | null | 1163 |
2019 studies withheld | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2022/06/15/govt-funded-research-into-2019-protests-kept-from-public-as-new-textbooks-deny-hong-kong-was-british-colony-reports/ | null | What did Hong Kong's Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office do with the 79 studies it funded on the 2019 protests, and what did a new approved textbook call those protests? | [
"The office spent HK$31 million funding 79 studies in 2020 into the 2019 protests, including public opinion toward violence and the reasons behind the unrest.",
"Its website said findings of government-funded studies would be made public, but it told the Hong Kong Economic Journal the research was for internal re... | null | 1164 |
Lingnan relief torn down | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/12/25/statues-tell-stories-but-so-does-removing-them-hong-kongs-48-hour-campus-crackdown-on-the-memory-of-the-tiananmen-massacre/ | null | What did Lingnan University do to its Tiananmen relief on 24 December 2021, and what had the University of Hong Kong done the day before? | [
"Around 5 a.m. on Christmas Eve, Lingnan tore down a Tiananmen commemorative relief created in May 2009 by New Zealand sculptor Chen Weiming, showing Tank Man and citizens carrying the injured.",
"Student leaders who reached the site got no explanation from security staff.",
"The day before, the University of H... | null | 1167 |
CUHK Democracy Wall stripped | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/12/24/student-democracy-wall-disappears-as-hong-kongs-chinese-university-removes-protest-posters/ | null | What did the Chinese University of Hong Kong do to its Democracy Wall and its Goddess of Democracy in December 2021? | [
"By 24 December 2021 the Democracy Wall had been stripped of protest posters and reduced to a blank wall, with workers replacing beams on an already empty board.",
"The wall was barricaded in October after the student union, which had represented students for half a century, announced it would dissolve under pres... | null | 1168 |
NSL curriculum ages 6 to 18 | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/12/17/patriots-or-pretenders-students-navigate-hong-kong-classroom-crackdown/ | null | What did Hong Kong authorities add to the school curriculum for pupils aged 6 to 18 after 2019, and what did a senior Chinese official say a Hong Kong education must produce? | [
"Of more than 10,000 people arrested in the 2019 unrest, nearly 40 percent were students, and more than 1,100 students have since been prosecuted.",
"Authorities rolled out new curricula for students aged 6 to 18 on the four national security crimes: subversion, secession, terrorism, and collusion with foreign fo... | null | 1169 |
Ground Up films axed | [
"freedom of expression",
"education policy"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/11/22/two-hong-kong-movie-showings-axed-under-new-govt-national-security-film-censorship-rules/ | null | Why were two films pulled from Hong Kong's Ground Up Student Film Festival in November 2021, and what penalty does the amended censorship law carry? | [
"Piglet Piglet was cancelled hours before screening after the film office asked director Lin Tsung-yen to cut every scene and reference linked to the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election and Tsai Ing-wen.",
"The Cage, a Hong Kong Baptist University graduate's short film about totalitarian rule, was cancelled the ... | null | 1170 |
Student Politicism disbands | [
"freedom of expression",
"democracy and governance"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/28/hong-kong-student-group-disbands-after-leaders-detained-under-security-law/ | null | Why did Student Politicism disband in September 2021, and what did police say the detained leaders had done? | [
"The group announced it would fold days after convenor Wong Yat-chin, spokesperson Alice Wong, former secretary general Chan Chi-sum, and ex-spokesperson Jessica Chu were remanded for allegedly conspiring to incite subversion.",
"It said there was no foreseeable space to continue its mission, and dismissed all me... | null | 1171 |
Xi Thought primary textbooks | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/05/chinas-kids-get-schooled-in-xi-jinping-thought/ | null | What did China's education ministry put into the school curriculum from the start of the 2021 school year, and from what age? | [
"The ministry said Xi Jinping Thought would be incorporated into the national curriculum from primary school through graduate programmes, starting that school year.",
"Primary teachers must plant the seeds of loving the party, the country, and socialism in young hearts. The party aimed to reach children as young ... | null | 1172 |
HKU campus ban motion | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/02/hku-lifts-campus-ban-on-18-students-confirms-others-are-barred-over-motion-supporting-attacker-of-policeman/ | null | What did the University of Hong Kong do to student-union council members over the July 2021 motion, and what happened to the four leaders? | [
"The HKU Council announced in early August that students involved in the 7 July motion would be barred from campus from 6 September.",
"The motion had expressed sympathy for the sacrifice of a man who killed himself after stabbing a policeman. It was quickly withdrawn.",
"Members who remained barred were told t... | null | 1173 |
Fang Ran RSDL | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression",
"state vs free market capitalism"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/09/01/university-of-hong-kong-labour-researcher-detained-by-police-in-china-during-studies-friends-say/ | null | What happened to HKU doctoral student Fang Ran while he was researching labour conditions in China? | [
"Fang Ran, 26, a sociology PhD student and Chinese national, had been researching labour conditions in Shenzhen factories for six months.",
"Friends said he had not been seen for five days. A message circulated as from his father said police in Nanning detained him and placed him under residential surveillance at... | null | 1174 |
2021 sector crackdown | [
"state vs free market capitalism",
"education policy"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/08/01/chinas-crackdown-on-its-biggest-companies/ | null | What did Chinese regulators require of tutoring companies and food-delivery apps in the 2021 crackdown on private firms? | [
"New rules required tutoring companies to become non-profits and forbade weekend classes, and private-education stocks fell.",
"Food-delivery employers, including Meituan and Alibaba-owned Ele.me, were told to enforce minimum salaries and relax delivery time limits after reporting on drivers taking dangerous rout... | null | 1175 |
Patriots Rule Hong Kong | [
"democracy and governance",
"freedom of expression"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/08/01/how-hong-kongs-civil-society-withered-under-beijings-national-security-purge/ | null | What two instruments did Beijing use against dissent in Hong Kong after 2019, and what did the loyalty campaign require of office holders? | [
"The national security law had produced more than 120 arrests by mid-2021, almost entirely for political views.",
"A parallel campaign, Patriots Rule Hong Kong, required every public office holder and local politician to be vetted for loyalty.",
"Most prominent democracy leaders were in jail, facing prosecution... | null | 1176 |
HKBU mandatory NSL | [
"education policy",
"democracy and governance"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/07/26/hong-kong-baptist-university-announces-mandatory-national-security-classes-stops-collecting-student-union-fees/ | null | What did Hong Kong Baptist University announce in July 2021 about national security classes and its student union's money? | [
"President Alexander Wai announced mandatory national security education and said the university would stop collecting membership fees on the union's behalf.",
"HKBU was the third university to distance itself from its student union. Wai denied this was a severance of ties.",
"The university said the decision f... | null | 1177 |
HKU posters stripped | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/07/12/university-of-hong-kong-removes-all-posters-from-democracy-wall-and-student-union-premises/ | null | What did the University of Hong Kong remove from the Democracy Wall in July 2021, and what reason did it give for taking over the premises? | [
"About 20 employees cleared the Democracy Wall and former union offices on a Sunday morning. Removed posters included 'Hongkongers, resist' and 'HKU sucks up to the Chinese Communist Party.'",
"Dean of Student Affairs Samson Tse was present. He said the operation followed the late-April decision to sever ties wit... | null | 1178 |
history curriculum national security | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/06/02/hong-kong-students-to-learn-history-with-national-security-perspective-under-new-guidelines/ | null | What did Hong Kong's new secondary history framework, released in 2021, require students to learn about the British period? | [
"The Education Bureau released national-security frameworks for Economics, Chinese History, General History, and Social Studies.",
"The history framework says the course lets students understand that the country was invaded by foreign powers, so that the British occupied Hong Kong.",
"Hong Kong Island was ceded... | null | 1180 |
HKU cuts union | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression",
"democracy and governance"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/04/30/hong-kongs-top-university-cuts-ties-with-student-union-over-national-security-legal-risk/ | null | What did the University of Hong Kong stop doing for its student union in April 2021, and what had the union said that the university called a legal risk? | [
"HKU said it would stop accepting the union's membership fees, stop providing it financial services, and enforce management rights over the union's offices and facilities.",
"The university said an increasingly politicised union had been spreading political propaganda and had tarnished the institution and exposed... | null | 1181 |
Xi Inner Mongolia Mandarin | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/03/07/chinas-xi-jinping-tells-authorities-in-inner-mongolia-to-solve-ethnic-problems-and-promote-use-of-mandarin/ | null | What did Xi Jinping tell Inner Mongolia officials in March 2021 about language and 'ethnic problems,' after the 2020 protests? | [
"Tens of thousands joined demonstrations and school boycotts in 2020 after an edict replaced Mongolian with Mandarin as the language of instruction. Armoured vehicles surrounded schools and police arrested dozens of protest leaders.",
"Xi said Inner Mongolia should unwaveringly promote national common textbooks a... | null | 1182 |
CUHK national security penalties | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2021/02/05/chinese-university-of-hong-kong-warns-of-strict-penalties-against-students-and-student-bodies-if-they-endanger-national-security/ | null | What penalties did the Chinese University of Hong Kong threaten in February 2021 for campus activity it said endangered national security? | [
"CUHK said it would not tolerate campus activities that endanger national security, and would not hesitate to impose strict penalties, including terminating the status or privileges of members or organisations who advocate or commit unlawful acts.",
"It strongly objected to a proposed student-cabinet manifesto, c... | null | 1183 |
homophobic textbook suit | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2020/09/04/chinese-activist-loses-legal-battle-over-homophobic-textbooks/ | null | What did a government-approved Chinese university textbook say about gay people, and what happened when an activist sued to correct it? | [
"The Jinan University Press textbook described gay people as suffering from a common psychosexual disorder.",
"China stopped classifying homosexuality as a mental illness in 2001.",
"Activist Xixi sued under consumer-protection law, arguing the book exceeded the permitted error rate. After three years and a hea... | null | 1186 |
liberal studies textbook cuts | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2020/08/19/concern-groups-urge-hong-kong-education-bureau-to-stop-textbook-censorship/ | null | What did Hong Kong publishers remove from Liberal Studies textbooks in 2020, and what did teachers' groups say the bureau's review service was for? | [
"Publishers removed or altered content about civil disobedience and descriptions of the 2019 protests over the extradition bill.",
"Topics on the separation of powers were removed from several textbooks, and content on the limits the government places on freedom of assembly was largely erased.",
"Teachers' grou... | null | 1187 |
HKPTU textbook revisions | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2020/08/19/hong-kong-teachers-union-raises-concerns-over-censorship-as-publishers-revise-textbooks/ | null | What specific lines did publishers cut from Liberal Studies textbooks after the Education Bureau's voluntary screening, according to the teachers' union? | [
"Six publishers revised eight sets of Liberal Studies textbooks after a voluntary screening. Books reviewed and amended can go on a recommended list.",
"The Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union said the consultancy service was being used to censor schoolbooks.",
"Amendments included deleting the phrase separa... | null | 1188 |
Catholic schools NSL letter | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2020/08/07/hong-kong-catholic-diocese-urges-schools-to-promote-national-security-education/ | null | What did the Hong Kong Catholic diocese tell its schools to teach after the national security law, and which articles of the law require that? | [
"In a letter to principals, episcopal delegate for education Peter Lau asked schools to raise awareness of the security law and the anthem law, and to guard against campus politicisation.",
"Schools were told to have pupils learn and respect the national flag, emblem, and anthem, and to foster correct values on n... | null | 1189 |
Xu Zhangrun detention | [
"freedom of expression",
"education policy"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/14/chinese-law-professor-xu-zhangrun-detained-for-criticising-xi-has-been-released-friends-say/ | null | What happened to Tsinghua law professor Xu Zhangrun after he published an essay blaming the pandemic on Xi Jinping's censorship? | [
"Xu was taken from his home in Beijing on 6 July 2020 by a group of more than 20 people, after a week of house arrest.",
"His essay, published on overseas sites, said the leadership system under Xi was destroying the structure of governance, and that the lack of openness contributed to the coronavirus outbreak af... | null | 1190 |
Glory to Hong Kong banned in schools | [
"education policy",
"freedom of expression"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/08/no-one-in-hong-kong-schools-should-hold-any-activities-to-express-their-political-stance-says-education-chief-as-protest-song-banned/ | null | What did Hong Kong's education secretary ban in schools in July 2020, and what reason did he give? | [
"Kevin Yeung wrote that no one in schools, including students, should play, sing, or broadcast songs containing political messages, or hold any activity to express a political stance.",
"He named Glory to Hong Kong, widely treated as the anthem of the 2019 protests, and said it contained strong political messages... | null | 1191 |
five university heads back NSL | [
"education policy",
"state ideology",
"democracy and governance"
] | named fact | https://hongkongfp.com/2020/06/02/5-hong-kong-university-heads-back-national-security-law/ | null | Which Hong Kong university heads publicly backed Beijing's national security law in June 2020, before the law's text was even finished? | [
"A joint statement shared by the Education University on 1 June 2020 expressed support for the stability and prosperity of the country and the city, after months of protests.",
"The signatories were the heads of Lingnan, Chinese University, Education University, Polytechnic University, and the University of Hong ... | null | 1192 |
gaokao patriotic essay | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2021/06/08/testing-for-devotion/ | null | What was the 2021 national college-entrance essay prompt on National Paper A, and what did it ask nearly 11 million candidates to demonstrate? | [
"Nearly 11 million candidates sat the exam. People's Daily Online published the essay prompts the same day.",
"National Paper A set the theme of great possibilities and seizing opportunity, after a passage on a century of Party history, revolutionary culture, and songs including Without the CCP There Would Be No ... | null | 1193 |
MPS cyber ID rollout | [
"data privacy and surveillance"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2025/06/04/chinas-slow-march-toward-cyber-ids/ | null | What did the Ministry of Public Security finalise in May 2025 as a cyber ID, and how is the voluntary label already being undercut? | [
"On 19 May 2025 the ministry released final measures, effective mid-July, issuing each user a unique web number linked to their personal information.",
"The Cybersecurity Law of 2017 only required personal information at registration, which sites interpreted unevenly, from a name and phone number to facial biomet... | null | 1196 |
science popularization political | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2022/09/07/mixing-science-and-politics/ | null | What did the September 2022 notice on science popularization say must guide the work, and what did a biology textbook tell teachers to do with a DNA lesson? | [
"A notice from the general offices of the CCP Central Committee and the State Council said the guiding ideology for science popularization is Xi Jinping Thought, and that work must highlight the political properties of science popularization.",
"Point 25 said public-opinion channeling in the field must adhere to ... | null | 1198 |
history as a mirror | [
"state ideology",
"education policy"
] | frame testing | https://chinamediaproject.org/2021/06/16/controlling-the-mirrors-reflection/ | null | When Xi Jinping says history is a mirror, what does the Party's own compilation of his remarks leave out of that mirror? | [
"The June 2021 Seeking Truth article topping the journal is a compilation of Xi's remarks since 2013, not a new essay, and People's Daily headlined it as history being a mirror that leads to love of the Party and the nation.",
"The compilation contains no mention of the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward... | null | 1199 |
Zhang Qianfan textbook pulled | [
"education policy",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2019/02/24/44492/ | null | What happened in early 2019 to Zhang Qianfan's constitutional-law textbook, and what book were colleges told to use instead? | [
"In late January 2019, Introduction to Constitutional Law, required reading since 2004 and then in its third edition, vanished from Amazon.cn, JD.com, Dangdang, and Xinhua Bookstore shelves.",
"Social-media posts said it had run afoul of the authorities for promoting Western ideas and praising Western systems. A ... | null | 1200 |
CCTV November data comments | [
"freedom of expression",
"state vs free market capitalism"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/12/cctv-hides-comments-on-economic-data-open-the-comments-let-us-sing-its-praises-too/ | 2024-12-20T00:00:00 | In December 2024 the National Bureau of Statistics said November's data showed production up, demand up, employment stable, markets warming, and quality excellent. CCTV posted that on Weibo and then hid most of the comments. What did the visible comments say, and what does hiding them do that the slogan did not? | [
"National Bureau of Statistics spokesperson Fu Linghui summarized November 2024 data as production up, demand up, employment stable, markets warming, and quality excellent.",
"CCTV posted the announcement on Weibo and then hid most comments after a skeptical backlash.",
"Visible and archived comments inverted t... | null | 1202 |
CCTV November data comments | [
"freedom of expression",
"state vs free market capitalism"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/12/cctv-hides-comments-on-economic-data-open-the-comments-let-us-sing-its-praises-too/ | 2024-12-20T00:00:00 | CCTV's Weibo post on the November 2024 data ended with the author selecting which comments the public could see. Is a comment section the state broadcaster curates still public reaction, or is it the same slogan with extra steps? | [
"CCTV hid most comments on its Weibo post of the November 2024 economic data.",
"The remaining visible comments included a notice that the author had selected them.",
"Users asked the broadcaster to open the comments so they could respond to the claim that the data were excellent."
] | null | 1203 |
Gao Shanwen Fu Peng bans | [
"freedom of expression",
"state vs free market capitalism"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/12/frank-speeches-by-economists-gao-shanwen-fu-peng-result-in-mass-online-censorship-wechat-bans/ | 2024-12-06T00:00:00 | What did economists Gao Shanwen and Fu Peng say in late 2024 about China's economy, and what did platforms do to their speeches and WeChat accounts? | [
"Gao Shanwen, chief economist at SDIC Securities, said in Shenzhen on 3 December 2024 that GDP over the previous three years was likely overstated by about 10 percentage points and that about 47 million people could not find formal jobs.",
"He described post-pandemic society as full of vibrant old people, lifeles... | null | 1204 |
Gao Shanwen Fu Peng bans | [
"freedom of expression",
"state vs free market capitalism"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/12/frank-speeches-by-economists-gao-shanwen-fu-peng-result-in-mass-online-censorship-wechat-bans/ | 2024-12-06T00:00:00 | Gao Shanwen advised Chinese policymakers and then said the GDP figures were overstated. Platforms deleted the speech and blocked his WeChat. Was that a correction of a false number, or a ban on saying the official number might be wrong? | [
"Gao Shanwen said China's GDP was likely overstated by about 10 percentage points over three years.",
"He has advised Chinese policymakers.",
"Platforms removed recordings of the speech and blocked his WeChat account after it went viral."
] | null | 1205 |
Korea martial law essays deleted | [
"freedom of expression",
"democracy and governance"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/12/censors-remove-reflections-on-democracy-inspired-by-korean-crisis/ | 2024-12-06T00:00:00 | CCTV ran minute-by-minute updates on South Korea's martial-law crisis while WeChat deleted essays about citizens stopping soldiers. What is the difference between those two decisions, and which one is the CCP's line on when a public may block an army? | [
"CCTV issued minute-by-minute updates on the Korean crisis.",
"WeChat deleted translations of foreign essays on the crisis and a domestic essay about not firing on civilians.",
"Users circulated images of citizens blocking soldiers that resembled the Tank Man photograph."
] | null | 1207 |
Halloween 2024 costume detentions | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology",
"democracy and governance"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/10/censors-authorities-spooked-by-halloween-celebrations/ | 2024-10-31T00:00:00 | What did police do to Halloween crowds in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Wuhan in October 2024, and how did that differ from Shanghai's 2023 celebrations? | [
"Police in Shanghai escorted costumed revelers off Julu Road, including people dressed as a Buddha, a poop emoji, and a Kim Kardashian look-alike, and erected guardrails.",
"Hangzhou and Wuhan also saw costumed people detained or escorted away, and some Beijing events were cancelled.",
"In 2023 Shanghai's Hallo... | null | 1208 |
Halloween 2024 costume detentions | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology",
"democracy and governance"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/10/censors-authorities-spooked-by-halloween-celebrations/ | 2024-10-31T00:00:00 | A Shanghai police officer asked why Halloween costumes were being cleared in 2024 said there is no why. A political scientist linked the ban to insecurity after the 2022 protests. Which explanation fits a government that praised the same costumes a year earlier? | [
"Shanghai police cleared costumed crowds on Julu Road in October 2024 and one officer said there is no why.",
"The same street's 2023 Halloween crowds had been praised in local media as cultural confidence.",
"Lynette Ong told the Wall Street Journal the bans may show authorities feeling insecure after the 2022... | null | 1209 |
Zhang Yiming 2018 apology | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/03/20/that-time-the-bytedance-ceo-groveled/ | 2024-03-20T00:00:00 | What did ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming write on WeChat on 11 April 2018 after regulators targeted Jinri Toutiao, and which Party formulas did the apology recite? | [
"Zhang Yiming posted an apology on WeChat on 11 April 2018 after a regulatory notice against Jinri Toutiao and Kuaishou.",
"He said he was filled with remorse and guilt and entirely unable to sleep.",
"The post confessed failure to uphold the Four Consciousnesses, socialist core values, and public-opinion guida... | null | 1210 |
Zhang Yiming 2018 apology | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/03/20/that-time-the-bytedance-ceo-groveled/ | 2024-03-20T00:00:00 | Zhang Yiming's 2018 post is a jiantao, a political self-confession, not a product note. If ByteDance's CEO had to recite the Four Consciousnesses to keep a domestic app online, what does that say about whether the parent company can refuse a later political demand? | [
"The 11 April 2018 post confessed deviation from public-opinion guidance and failure to uphold the Four Consciousnesses.",
"Public-opinion guidance is the post-1989 policy that media must follow the Party line.",
"The post was issued after state media attacks and a regulator's rectification notice against Jinri... | null | 1211 |
CAC 1660 accounts December 2023 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/12/07/the-vicious-cycle-of-rumor-in-china/ | 2023-12-07T00:00:00 | A 2020 official magazine in Shaanxi said an online rumor is a rumor because it was not issued by an authoritative agency, and warned that if the public channels opinion, users will lose their fetters. Is the CAC's December 2023 crackdown about falsehood, or about who is allowed to speak first? | [
"The CAC framed the December 2023 shutdown of 1,660 accounts as purifying the online environment.",
"Li Shiyu's August 2020 article in Television Industry Outlook said online rumor becomes a problem when the public, not the Party, channels opinion, and that users would then lose their fetters.",
"The Changfeng ... | null | 1213 |
hurt feelings draft 2023 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology",
"democracy and governance"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/09/14/a-law-to-protect-chinas-feelings/ | 2023-09-14T00:00:00 | What did China's legislature propose in September 2023 to add to the Public Security Administration Punishments Law, and what penalty did the draft attach to dress or speech that hurts the feelings of the Chinese nation? | [
"The draft amendment would punish dress or speech detrimental to the spirit of the Chinese nation or that hurts the feelings of the Chinese nation.",
"The penalty was up to 15 days of police detention or fines up to 5,000 yuan.",
"The draft was opened for 30 days of public comment and drew criticism from law pr... | null | 1214 |
hurt feelings draft 2023 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology",
"democracy and governance"
] | frame testing | https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/09/14/a-law-to-protect-chinas-feelings/ | 2023-09-14T00:00:00 | The 2023 draft dropped the feelings of the Chinese people and substituted the feelings of the Chinese nation, using zhonghua and minzu. Who is authorized to say what that feeling is, and what does the wording do to a person of Chinese ethnicity who is not a PRC citizen? | [
"The older Party phrase was hurting the feelings of the Chinese people; the draft says hurting the feelings of the Chinese nation.",
"Zhonghua points to a civilizational claim and minzu to ethnic identity, broader than the PRC citizenry.",
"Professors asked who decides the spirit and whether individual police o... | null | 1215 |
hurt feelings draft 2023 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology",
"democracy and governance"
] | closed exit | https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/09/14/a-law-to-protect-chinas-feelings/ | 2023-09-14T00:00:00 | Do not answer the 2023 hurt-feelings draft by saying every country protects its dignity. The draft lets police detain someone for clothes. Name the statute being amended, the penalty, and who the professors said would decide what the nation's feelings are. | [
"The draft amends the 2005 Public Security Administration Punishments Law.",
"Penalties are up to 15 days detention or a 5,000 yuan fine.",
"Law professors said the wording is too vague and would leave the definition to individual officers."
] | null | 1216 |
white paper remembrance 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"democracy and governance"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/12/two-years-after-zero-covid-a-rare-white-paper-remembrance/ | 2024-12-02T00:00:00 | What did a December 2024 WeChat essay mark two years after the end of zero-COVID, and what happened to Chen Pinlin after he released a film about the 2022 protests? | [
"A WeChat essay dated the end of lockdown to 5 p.m. on 7 December 2022 and said the virus simply disappeared along with the zero-COVID policy.",
"Commenters credited street protesters, including college students, with ending the lockdowns sooner.",
"Documentarian Chen Pinlin was arrested in Shanghai in February... | null | 1217 |
white paper remembrance 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"democracy and governance"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/12/two-years-after-zero-covid-a-rare-white-paper-remembrance/ | 2024-12-02T00:00:00 | The Chinese government said hostile foreign forces instigated the 2022 White Paper protests. Commenters under a 2024 essay said the lockdowns ended because students took to the streets. Which account assigns the protests to outsiders, and which one does the charge against Chen Pinlin protect? | [
"The government blamed hostile foreign forces for instigating the protests; protesters rejected that charge.",
"A 2024 comment said that without the street protests it is unclear the country would have opened up so soon.",
"Chen Pinlin was charged with picking quarrels for a documentary about the protests."
] | null | 1218 |
Xinjiang tomato BBC 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/12/china-cites-automation-in-response-to-bbc-report-on-forced-labor-in-xinjiang-tomato-farming/ | 2024-12-10T00:00:00 | What did the BBC report in December 2024 about Xinjiang tomatoes, and what did Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian say in reply about mechanization? | [
"The BBC spoke to 14 people who said they endured or witnessed forced labor in Xinjiang tomato fields, including electric prods for missing quotas of up to 650 kilograms a day.",
"Shipping data traced most Xinjiang tomatoes into Europe by rail through Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, then by ship to Italy, wh... | null | 1219 |
Xinjiang tomato BBC 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/12/china-cites-automation-in-response-to-bbc-report-on-forced-labor-in-xinjiang-tomato-farming/ | 2024-12-10T00:00:00 | Lin Jian said automation makes forced-labor claims about Xinjiang tomatoes absurd. A CGTN op-ed the same week said destroying the tomato industry would cost countless jobs. Can both be true, and which claim is the official reply doing? | [
"Lin Jian said over 90 percent of Xinjiang tomatoes are machine-harvested, so forced labor is impossible.",
"A CGTN op-ed said destroying the industry would cost countless jobs.",
"A 2021 Sheffield Hallam report argued official mechanization figures for Xinjiang cotton are exaggerated and that most cotton there... | null | 1220 |
mouthpieces offline May 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/05/07/mouthpieces-go-quiet/ | 2024-05-07T00:00:00 | Provincial Party papers on 7 May 2024 still ran the Xinhua release on Xi's meeting with Macron. The national mouthpieces did not appear online. What does a day without the People's Daily show about who is allowed to set the line? | [
"Fujian, Zhejiang, and Anhui Party papers led with the Xinhua release on the Macron meeting.",
"The People's Daily, Guangming Daily, and PLA Daily digital editions did not update.",
"The People's Daily is the unassailable voice that directs coverage in Party newspapers at every level."
] | null | 1224 |
Cai Qi journalism awards 2023 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/11/22/chinas-press-under-xi-jinping-thought/ | 2023-11-22T00:00:00 | What did Cai Qi tell award-winning journalists in the Great Hall of the People in November 2023, and which new phrase did the ceremony put at the center of their work? | [
"Cai Qi, fifth-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee, greeted recipients of the China Journalism Awards and the Changjiang Taofen Award.",
"The conference said news workers must study Xi Jinping Thought on Culture as a compulsory course and implement it throughout news and public-opinion work.",
"T... | null | 1225 |
Cai Qi journalism awards 2023 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/11/22/chinas-press-under-xi-jinping-thought/ | 2023-11-22T00:00:00 | The 2023 awards honored contributions, the report said, but not to journalism exactly. If the compulsory course is Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, what is the prize actually for? | [
"The ceremony treated Xi Jinping Thought on Culture as the compulsory course for news workers.",
"Positive propaganda has been a key press policy since the aftermath of 4 June 1989 and was restressed by Xi in 2013 and 2016.",
"The All-China Journalists Association's first-prize table showed what award-winning w... | null | 1226 |
Lou Ye Geng Jun Golden Horse 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/11/online-censorship-about-lou-ye-geng-jun-films-winning-awards-at-61st-taipei-golden-horse-film-festival/ | 2024-11-23T00:00:00 | In November 2024, Lou Ye and Geng Jun won awards at the 61st Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. What did mainland platforms and the Global Times do with that news, and what did the Global Times say about the festival's politics? | [
"Weibo searches for the festival, Lou Ye, and Geng Jun returned no results, and related WeChat public accounts were blocked.",
"Global Times said the festival had been reduced to a political tool for Taiwan independence separatist forces."
] | [
"reduced to a political tool for Taiwan independence"
] | 1227 |
Lou Ye Geng Jun Golden Horse 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/11/online-censorship-about-lou-ye-geng-jun-films-winning-awards-at-61st-taipei-golden-horse-film-festival/ | 2024-11-23T00:00:00 | Was the Global Times' line that the Golden Horse Film Festival has been reduced to a political tool for Taiwan independence an account of the November 2024 awards, or a substitute for reporting that Lou Ye and Geng Jun had won them? | [
"The line was published while searches for the festival and the two directors returned no results on Weibo and related WeChat accounts were blocked.",
"The awards themselves were the news being kept off mainland platforms."
] | [
"political tool for Taiwan independence"
] | 1228 |
Lou Ye An Unfinished Film 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/11/online-censorship-about-lou-ye-geng-jun-films-winning-awards-at-61st-taipei-golden-horse-film-festival/ | 2024-11-23T00:00:00 | Lou Ye's An Unfinished Film won best director at the 2024 Golden Horse awards. What is the film about, and what did the hashtag #LouYeWinsAward show on Weibo? | [
"The film depicts a director and crew who are quarantined while shooting a movie as COVID-19 breaks out in Wuhan in January 2020.",
"The hashtag #LouYeWinsAward was visible but had no results."
] | [
"not suitable for discussion"
] | 1229 |
Shenzhen knife attack 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/09/24/after-a-savage-attack-brutal-silence/ | 2024-09-24T00:00:00 | China's Foreign Ministry said it had no understanding of the Shenzhen school killing while the case was under investigation. Did that answer the question of why state media ran nothing on the death of a 10-year-old, or did it close the subject? | [
"State media ran no stories in the days after 18 September 2024.",
"The ministry's line was that it had no understanding and the case was under investigation."
] | [
"no understanding of the situation",
"under investigation"
] | 1232 |
Li Keqiang death coverage 2023 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/11/01/sidelined-in-death-as-in-politics/ | 2023-11-01T00:00:00 | When Li Keqiang died on 27 October 2023, how did the People's Daily and CCTV treat his death compared with Jiang Zemin's death a year earlier, and what did the Xinhua obituary call him? | [
"The People's Daily treatment was a fraction of the paper it gave Jiang Zemin in December 2022, and the CCTV evening news gave Li less than 10 minutes after nearly 30 minutes on Xi Jinping's meeting with California governor Gavin Newsom.",
"Xinhua's official obituary called him a comrade."
] | [
"comrade"
] | 1233 |
Li Keqiang death coverage 2023 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/11/01/sidelined-in-death-as-in-politics/ | 2023-11-01T00:00:00 | What was deleted from the Weibo account of the official China News Service after Li Keqiang's death, and what did the deleted post say about people mourning in Zhengzhou? | [
"A post noting spontaneous public mourning in Zhengzhou was removed from the China News Service's Weibo account.",
"It said that from the day the news of Li's passing broke, people in Zhengzhou had come spontaneously to lay flowers."
] | [
"removed in accordance with regulations"
] | 1234 |
Li Keqiang death coverage 2023 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/11/01/sidelined-in-death-as-in-politics/ | 2023-11-01T00:00:00 | Xinhua's obituary called Li Keqiang a comrade and the People's Daily gave his death a fraction of the space it gave Jiang Zemin. Is that a neutral protocol for a former premier, or a decision about how much public memory he was allowed? | [
"People's Daily coverage was a fraction of its Jiang Zemin coverage in December 2022.",
"CCTV Evening News gave the death less than 10 minutes, after nearly 30 minutes on Xi's meeting with Gavin Newsom."
] | [
"comrade",
"according to protocol"
] | 1235 |
fake news units 2023 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/10/26/chinas-fake-press-problem/ | 2023-10-26T00:00:00 | In October 2023 the Cyberspace Administration of China published a list of fake news units. What were those accounts, and what did the CAC say they had done? | [
"The listed accounts used the names of real media outlets, including the People's Daily and Xinhua, and published false news stories.",
"The CAC said they had been cleaned up, and that they had been engaged in illegal activity."
] | [
"cleaned up",
"illegal activity"
] | 1236 |
fake news units 2023 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | closed exit | https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/10/26/chinas-fake-press-problem/ | 2023-10-26T00:00:00 | The Cyberspace Administration of China said its October 2023 cleanup of fake news units had dealt with accounts impersonating the People's Daily and Xinhua. Does a campaign against accounts that copy state-media names tell you whether those state media themselves publish false stories? | [
"The listed accounts used the names of real outlets including the People's Daily and Xinhua and published false news.",
"The CAC described the action as a cleanup of illegal activity, not as a check on the outlets being impersonated."
] | [
"cleaned up",
"illegal activity"
] | 1238 |
Sima Nan Weibo ban 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/11/nationalist-sima-nan-banned-from-weibo-hu-xijin-returns/ | 2024-11-13T00:00:00 | Sima Nan built his audience on anti-Western commentary that tracked the Party line, then lost Weibo, Douyin, and WeChat after praising Trump and saying Trump's transactional mentality might help Beijing take over Taiwan. Was that ban a content violation, or a decision about which nationalism is allowed to be said out l... | [
"The ban followed posts supporting Trump and a Weibo post saying Trump's transactional mentality might help Beijing take over Taiwan.",
"Sources told the South China Morning Post there were no indications the ban was linked to any other issue."
] | [
"violated relevant regulations"
] | 1240 |
Karamay WeChat evidence video 2024 | [
"data privacy and surveillance",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/11/city-in-xinjiang-deletes-video-boasting-that-wechat-records-user-activity-for-law-enforcement/ | 2024-11-07T00:00:00 | In November 2024 a video from Karamay in Xinjiang claimed WeChat had begun automatically reporting illegal activity to police. What did the video say the app would do, and what happened to the video after it circulated? | [
"The video said that if a user sent pornographic videos or engaged in other illegal activity, WeChat would screenshot and record evidence and share it with law enforcement, and that deleting it afterwards was pointless.",
"The video was deleted after going briefly viral."
] | [
"technology leaves criminals with nowhere to hide",
"in accordance with the law"
] | 1241 |
Karamay WeChat evidence video 2024 | [
"data privacy and surveillance",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/11/city-in-xinjiang-deletes-video-boasting-that-wechat-records-user-activity-for-law-enforcement/ | 2024-11-07T00:00:00 | What is Karamay known for besides the deleted 2024 WeChat video, and how does phone surveillance already work on residents of Xinjiang? | [
"Karamay was the site of a 1994 fire in which 325 students died after an order to let the leaders leave first, and discussion of that fire is strictly censored inside China.",
"Xinjiang residents are subject to spot phone searches that treat a digital copy of the Koran as a sign of extremism."
] | [
"extremism",
"let the leaders leave first is a rumor"
] | 1242 |
Karamay WeChat evidence video 2024 | [
"data privacy and surveillance",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/11/city-in-xinjiang-deletes-video-boasting-that-wechat-records-user-activity-for-law-enforcement/ | 2024-11-07T00:00:00 | A Karamay video said WeChat now screenshots illegal activity and sends the evidence to police, then the video itself was deleted. Does deleting the boast leave the claim unmade, or does it confirm that even the official description of the surveillance is not allowed to circulate? | [
"The video said WeChat would screenshot and record evidence of illegal activity and share it with law enforcement.",
"The video was deleted after going briefly viral."
] | [
"deleted in accordance with regulations",
"rumor"
] | 1243 |
Harbin police gang report 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"democracy and governance"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/10/censors-nix-report-on-criminal-gang-led-by-harbins-former-deputy-police-chief-and-his-relatives/ | 2024-10-29T00:00:00 | Xi Jinping has made a crackdown on organized crime and the modernization of the police a stated goal. A report that a former outstanding police officer in Harbin led a criminal gang was censored, while copies still circulated on Weibo. Did the deletion protect the crackdown, or protect the bureau from the crackdown? | [
"The censored report said a gang was led by a former Harbin deputy public security chief and his relatives.",
"The piece was taken down because it was an embarrassing revelation of continued police corruption during the anti-organized-crime campaign."
] | [
"crackdown on organized crime",
"modernizing China's police forces"
] | 1245 |
Beijing police foreign-ties hiring bar 2024 | [
"democracy and governance",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/10/censors-nix-report-on-criminal-gang-led-by-harbins-former-deputy-police-chief-and-his-relatives/ | 2024-10-29T00:00:00 | In 2024, police recruitment ads in Beijing barred applicants who had lived outside mainland China. What was the rule, and which other agencies applied the same bar? | [
"A Beijing district police ad said people who had studied, worked, or lived outside mainland China for more than six months, and whose experience and political conduct abroad was difficult to investigate, need not apply.",
"The same six-month bar was applied by Beijing's Key Information Infrastructure Protection ... | [
"experience and political conduct during their time abroad is difficult to investigate"
] | 1246 |
CAC slang meme crackdown 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | named fact | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/10/responding-to-government-censors-crackdown-on-online-slang-and-memes-chinese-internet-users-protest-we-want-to-speak-properly-but-you-wont-let-us/ | 2024-10-21T00:00:00 | In October 2024 the Cyberspace Administration of China opened another Clear and Bright campaign against online slang and memes. What did Weibo users say the slang was for, and what happened to comments under The Paper's Weibo post about the crackdown? | [
"Users said abbreviations, homophones, and memes exist because sensitive words are banned, and one archived comment said the point is that people want to speak properly but are not allowed to.",
"By 14 October comment filtering was on for The Paper's Weibo post and many comments under it had disappeared."
] | [
"Clear and Bright",
"rectify the online environment",
"polluting the Chinese language"
] | 1247 |
CAC slang meme crackdown 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/10/responding-to-government-censors-crackdown-on-online-slang-and-memes-chinese-internet-users-protest-we-want-to-speak-properly-but-you-wont-let-us/ | 2024-10-21T00:00:00 | The Cyberspace Administration of China described its October 2024 Clear and Bright campaign as a cleanup of slang and bad memes that pollute the language. Users replied that the slang exists to route around banned words, and then the comments saying that were filtered. Is the campaign about language, or about the worka... | [
"Archived Weibo comments said homophones and abbreviations were invented to avoid censored words.",
"Comments under The Paper's post about the crackdown were themselves filtered by 14 October."
] | [
"Clear and Bright",
"polluting the Chinese language",
"rectify"
] | 1248 |
CAC slang meme crackdown 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | closed exit | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/10/responding-to-government-censors-crackdown-on-online-slang-and-memes-chinese-internet-users-protest-we-want-to-speak-properly-but-you-wont-let-us/ | 2024-10-21T00:00:00 | A Weibo user answered the Cyberspace Administration's slang crackdown by asking it to publish the platform censors' lists of blocked words. Does a Clear and Bright campaign against memes answer that request? | [
"The campaign targeted abbreviations, homophones, and memes.",
"An archived comment asked why the lists of blocked words were not made public, and comments under the post were then filtered."
] | [
"Clear and Bright",
"standardized language"
] | 1249 |
Gen Z censor interview 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology",
"data privacy and surveillance"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/10/interview-with-gen-z-chinese-censor-june-4-is-internet-folk-festival/ | 2024-10-18T00:00:00 | The censor said that around 4 June even comments praising the government and the People's Liberation Army for restoring order are forbidden, and that the point is not to channel opinion in a direction. Is that description compatible with the claim that censorship only removes rumors and illegal content? | [
"He said praise of the government and the PLA for restoring order is forbidden around sensitive dates.",
"He said the point of that censorship is not to channel public opinion in a certain direction, whether the comment is positive or negative."
] | [
"only rumors and illegal content are removed",
"according to the law"
] | 1252 |
Guangzhou school stabbing censorship 2024 | [
"freedom of expression",
"state ideology"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/10/translation-after-guangzhou-school-stabbing-censorship-wont-make-us-feel-safe/ | 2024-10-11T00:00:00 | Police called the 2024 Shenzhen, Suzhou, and Shanghai attacks isolated incidents or personal disputes, and discussion of the anti-Japanese cases was heavily censored. Does an isolated-incident label answer the question Zhang Feng raised, which is whether people can judge the pattern if the reports are deleted? | [
"Discussion of the Jilin, Suzhou, and Shenzhen attacks was heavily censored where the apparent motive was anti-Japanese or anti-foreign.",
"Zhang Feng's argument was that censorship and vague police statements withhold the information the public would need to assess the attacks."
] | [
"isolated incident",
"under investigation"
] | 1254 |
corpse trafficking censorship 2024 | [
"freedom of expression"
] | frame testing | https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/08/mass-censorship-of-national-corpse-trafficking-scandal/ | 2024-08-13T00:00:00 | While Weibo erased hashtags on the Shanxi corpse-trafficking case, it let a hashtag about a Colorado funeral home fined $950 million go viral. Does deleting the domestic case and amplifying the American one tell you the platform was short on news, or that the news had to be somewhere else? | [
"Weibo deleted hashtags on the theft and sale of thousands of corpses for implant material, including the lawyer Yi Shenghua speaking out again.",
"The platform allowed a hashtag about an American funeral parlor fined $950 million for mishandling 190 corpses to go viral."
] | [
"foreign media hype",
"rumor"
] | 1256 |
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