While Silicon Valley built for scale, Beijing built for sovereignty. The West treated technology as global commons. China ...

June 30, 2025 -- A new study and online resource by ChinaFile, an online magazine published by Asia Society, examines China’s extensive online censorship system: how it works from a technical ...

China maintains strict control over its internet through censorship, regulation, and state surveillance. From the Great ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rapid development of AI has triggered controversy surrounding copyright and big data in most parts of the world. In China, the trend of automated censorship is more worrisome, as it enables the ...

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 ...

China’s Great Firewall has taken a major dent after more than 500GB of information on the highly secretive system leaked online. Source code, worklogs, and even internal communication records were ...

Free access to information online is a vital component of democratic societies. However, something that is take for granted in this country is by no means possible everywhere. Given this, in a recent ...

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 ...

On Nov. 11, in Zhuhai, China, a 62-year-old man drove his car into a crowd at a sports complex, killing 35 people and injuring 43 others. It was China's deadliest mass killing in more than a decade.

On July 15, China passed new legislation known as the National Network Identity Authentication, also called Internet ID. Under this new law, Chinese citizens would voluntarily enroll via a government ...