We Know the Statistics, but What Do They Mean?

Thanks to the Ministry of Public Security’s website, we have a clear picture of which foreign NGOs were able to work in China in 2017 under the Foreign NGO Law, either through establishing representative offices or carrying out temporary activities. But without solid data from the years before the law went into effect, how can we know what kinds of changes the law has engendered? We’ve tried to answer that question as best we can by mining China Development Brief’s directory of international groups working in China. Read the full analysis here.