Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. I spent many years working inside Chinese media, both state-owned and private, and I find that many people outside the country misunderstand a key part of ...

China has officially launched internet identification requirements that rights groups have warned will further curtail online anonymity and increase the risks for freedom of speech in what is already ...

A 500 GB breach uncovers how China is selling its ready-made internet-blocking kits to Pakistan, Myanmar, Ethiopia, and Kazakhstan regimes.

Geedge Networks is providing censorship capabilities to foreign governments, including those in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia ...

Under this new law, Chinese citizens would voluntarily enroll via a government app, submitting their true name and a facial ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) tested three of China’s main chatbots, which use a generative AI built on large language ...

China's Great Firewall of Internet censorship has become household knowledge in recent years, but the extent to which the country controls all forms of media is less well known. It has, however, ...

The rollicking conversation on Sina Weibo, the popular Chinese microblogging service with more than 50 million active users, has gotten a little strained in the last few months, as the government’s ...

Imagine waking up to a world where entire chapters of history have quietly disappeared and key facts about important news are simply nowhere to be found. If you ...

The Chinese artificial intelligence assistant from DeepSeek is holding its own against all the major players in the field, having dethroned ChatGPT to become No. 1 in the Apple App Store this week. In ...

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Yu Miao once owned an independent bookstore in China. While there, he lived in constant fear of the repercussions of harsh regulations and censorship on any store the government did not operate. The ...