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In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, With Red FlagsA new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.

Coronavirus Outrage Spurs China’s Internet Police to ActionOnline enforcers are dragging in hundreds for questioning as an assault on online speech continues. They are a sign of how Beijing has given censors a more punitive role.

No Fish in the Sea? Dating in Modern China

Love on the Cloud: The Rise of Online Dating in China

Amid a virus lockdown, how are China’s migrant workers surviving?A sense of powerlessness can hurt as much as dwindling savings

‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under XiReporters were once a force for accountability in China. But President Xi Jinping has brought about what critics call a “total censorship era.”

Inside China’s top ‘party schools’: Plenty of Communist doctrine on tapA network of campuses across China ponders how to win over a younger generation.

How China Uses High-Tech Surveillance to Subdue MinoritiesChina has turned the Xinjiang region in its far west into an incubator for automated authoritarianism that could spread across the country and beyond.

China Masters Political Propaganda for the Instagram AgeLeveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotism among the youth.

Barred From Owning Land, Rural Chinese Miss Spoils of Country’s SuccessA region that is the cradle of China’s economic overhauls shows how decisions made four decades ago are hobbling China’s farmers and hampering economic growth.

Despite Beijing’s Threats, Hong Kong Protesters Remain UnbowedHong Kong saw another massive rally on Sunday, with an estimated 1.7 million pro-democracy protesters taking to the streets. So far, China’s response to the protests, which started in June over a proposed bill that would have allowed extradition to mainland China, has largely consisted of a disinformation campaign and support for the Hong Kong police, which have engaged in violent beatings, extensive use of tear gas, and firing of rubber bullets to clamp down on the protesters. USIP experts discuss how the situation has evolved, the potential of Beijing conducting a violent crackdown, what the international community’s response would be, and what the U.S. can do.

Beijing’s one-child policy is gone. But many Chinese are still reluctant to have more.“Raising a child just costs too much,” said a community worker whose job is to encourage families to have more children.

How China Turned a City Into a PrisonChildren are interrogated. Neighbors become informants. Mosques are monitored. Cameras are everywhere.

Ai Weiwei Sichuan earthquake artwork

Background on South China Sea Dispute

China's Firewall

China's Newest Propaganda: Children's Bedtime Stories NYT 2017

China's Rise

China bans Islamic names-NYT April 2017

China reminds who's boss SOEs NYT 2016

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Crowd Control

Dec 2017 Chinese treatment of Uighurs

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Population-efforts to boost population Economist 2018

The Class Ceiling: Economist 6/16

Wukan protests take 2 NPR 6/16

China is reforesting land the size of Ireland

Inside China's Dystopian State-NYT Increased Surveillance

Workers Activism Rises-NYT 2019

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