Tag / CCP
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Big Brother Is Not Just Watching
The western world has paid much attention lately to the emergence of China’s social credit system, which evokes fears of Orwellian control and Big Brother—the Chinese state, in this case—watching and controlling its citizens. The system, which was announced in 2014 by China’s State Council, is an attempt (in the State Council’s words) to encourage…
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The Cultural Revolution, Forgotten
What does it mean when a body disappears? What causes the disappearance? Death comes to mind first, but that’s not quite right. When somebody dies, their body is usually memorialized via a grave, a cremation, some sort of memorial service, a crypt, or any other kind of memorial. Sometimes, however, those memories themselves disappear. What…
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Analyzing China’s 19th Party Congress
The 19th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP) began on October 18 and lasted for a week. According to the CCP Constitution, the quinquennial meeting of 2000+ party representatives will elect over 200 members of the Central Committee and over 100 members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The Central Committee…
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The Machine That Won’t Quit: Why Even Google Isn’t Enough to End Chinese Censorship
A few weeks ago, Google stunned the world by announcing that it would consider withdrawing from China completely as an Internet server. For a number of reasons, Google’s statement was a shocker. For years, the company has steadily and firmly maintained that it would not back out of the Chinese market, one of its largest…
