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Hostile foreign forces have long been accused of fomenting unrest and other ills in China. The Ministry of State Security sparked widespread ridicule recently with its claim that external influence has been fomenting slackerism among the country’s youth. After authorities i…

Chinese social media and financial news apps are abuzz over new policies restricting the use of “cross-border” brokerage apps and Hong Kong brokerage accounts by mainland retail investors, and prohibiting overseas travel by some key employees of domestic AI firms. The dual restri…

During the recent back-to-back Sino-American and Sino-Russian summits, there was a fair amount of online censorship of sensitive-word combinations, much of it “soft censorship” aimed at controlling online discourse by limiting search results to Chinese government websites and sta…

In early May, well before the respective visits to Beijing of American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, online controversy erupted over Sputnik news agency footage of Chinese schoolchildren, clad in retro Red Army uniforms, marching in a Vladivostok pa…

At The Wall Street Journal last week, departing China correspondent Yoko Kubota described her experiences as "a Japanese person who worked for an American newspaper" in a climate of rising nationalist sentiment and international tension: In China, the drumbeat of nationalistic se…

Despite huge leaps in recent decades, rural living standards remain an issue of widespread popular concern in China. A heating crisis in Hebei last winter, for example, became the focus of intense online discussion and subsequent censorship as the withdrawal of natural gas subsid…

RightsCon, the world’s largest digital human rights conference, was forced to cancel its 2026 conference just days before it was to convene in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, reportedly due to Chinese pressure on the Zambian government. A leading summit on human rights and technol…

In an article published to its official WeChat account on Tuesday, the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) accused unnamed “foreign organizations” of trying to brainwash Chinese youth into “lying flat” (also “lying down” or “slacking off”), a meme-fueled lifestyle trend that…

Despite huge leaps in recent decades, rural living standards remain an issue of widespread popular concern in China. A heating crisis in Hebei last winter, for example, became the focus of intense online discussion and subsequent censorship as the withdrawal of natural gas subsid…

Two collections of regulations released by the State Council in recent weeks have stoked concern among multinationals and business executives operating in China that they could be targeted for retaliation simply for making routine business decisions, such as reshoring supply chai…

China’s online censorship regime is often associated with overt blocks, deletions, and account bans, but these blunt and highly visible measures exist on a wide spectrum. Toward the harsher end are invitations to "drink tea" with police, extrajudicial detention, and crimina…

Last week, educational influencer Zhang Xuefeng passed away suddenly from a cardiac arrest at the age of 41. On Saturday, huge crowds thronged the streets near a funeral home in Suzhou to pay tribute to the “entrance exam guru” who had advised so many young people and their paren…

On March 25, WeChat announced that since the beginning of the year, it had permanently banned 1,209 accounts and sanctioned more than 60,000 accounts for various violations. Alongside this tightening platform censorship, many WeChat bloggers have published articles explaining to …

On Monday, the Hong Kong government gazetted amendments to the implementation rules of the National Security Law that would significantly expand the powers granted to law enforcement, including the ability to compel suspects in national security investigations to reveal their dev…