"Other websites are welcome to republish Danwei stories in full as long as they are credited with a link to Danwei.org and the author's name at the top of the republished article. Please ask for our permission before rewriting or mashing-up Danwei stories for republishing."

I didn't see a link to your original story in the CD article (nor to ESWN's translation). Did they get your permission? Has this occurred regularly? Is the English translation of that article legally yours?

I vote for choice 3, the vacuum in which the CD website exists.

This has occurred in the past; for a while it seemed like the CD site would lift an ESWN translation every week or so. In this particular instance, the website republished just the translation without any of the notes or introduction, so crediting the original author is probably OK, even if a "translated by" credit would be nice. English-language Chinese media has much room for progress on two fronts: standards and practices, and editorial choices. So it's hard to take a position that the CD website should run more relevant, critical articles and then turn around and slam them for this. Even if it would be nicer to see them do more hard-hitting, original reporting, they probably don't have that ability right now.

For a slightly different take, see this.