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China Digital Times | Recipient of NED’s 2025 Democracy Award
NED honored China Digital Times for its unwavering commitment to chronicling the Chinese people’s struggle for freedom.
Founded in 2003 by Xiao Qiang, China Digital Times is a bilingual platform that exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship apparatus and preserving a living record of the Chinese people’s courage and creativity.
As Beijing’s grip tightens, China Digital Times and Xiao Qiang keep a vital window open to the unfiltered, authentic perspectives of the Chinese people—proving that no regime, however powerful, can silence a people’s voice.
The National Endowment for Democracy is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. Each year, NED makes more than 2,000 grants to support the projects of non-governmental groups abroad who are working for democratic goals in more than 100 countries. Learn more at https://www.ned.org/
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