Taiwan is a democracy, so its future lies in its people’s hands. But that makes it vulnerable to authoritarian exploitation, The Economist observes. China is already promoting defeatist and divisive… Read more »
The chairman of the newly established congressional select committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Representative Mike Gallagher, revealed that Disney CEO Bob Iger and NBA commissioner Adam Silver would be… Read more »
“China has built a giant influence and information apparatus,” Joshua Kurlantzick writes in his new book, Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World. While… Read more »
China’s ruling Communist Party has developed a new artificial intelligence tool that allows authorities to monitor party members’ loyalty to the regime, reports suggest. China’s Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center… Read more »
As Sudan’s popular revolt surged from late 2018, threatening to topple President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s government, he received a memo urging the government to run a social media campaign… Read more »
Authorities across China are tightening security and ramping up surveillance of dissidents ahead of the Tiananmen massacre anniversary, Radio Free Asia’s Gao Feng reports. Ten years after the death of… Read more »
A U.S. citizen and four officials from China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) were charged in an indictment, unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn yesterday, with conspiracy and other charges… Read more »
“Crisis of democracy” is a cliché of our time. But what about the even more consequential crisis of autocracy? Just watch the meltdowns in China, Russia, Turkey and arguably Africa’s… Read more »
Are man-made crises like the one in Shanghai inevitable under China’s authoritarian system? China is facing what is arguably the worst crisis in governance since the end of the Cultural… Read more »
This week, a major university in D.C. found itself in the position of censoring criticism of the Chinese government by removing art posters highlighting Beijing’s human rights abuses during the… Read more »