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Song Binbin, perhaps the most infamous “Red Guard” of the Cultural Revolution, died at the age of 77 on Monday, September 16. Song, the daughter of one of the Party’s powerful “Eight Immortals,” was ...

The first sentencing under Hong Kong’s new Article 23 national security law (officially called the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance) occurred this week, as a man was sentenced to 14 months ...

Uyghur villages have been Sinicized in Xinjiang. Local communities have been displaced for state-sponsored infrastructure projects in Tibet. News editors have been convicted of sedition in Hong Kong.

While China’s athletes won glory in Paris at this year’s Olympics and Paralympics, there was widespread agreement on Chinese social media that the country’s reporters did not. Bloggers and athletes ...

With the U.S. presidential election looming ever closer, an article in Foreign Affairs from  Johns Hopkins’ Jessica Chen Weiss called for a new approach to China policy from the next administration: ...

While China’s athletes won glory in Paris at this year’s Olympics and Paralympics, there was widespread agreement on Chinese social media that the country’s reporters did not. Bloggers and athletes ...

A recent WeChat post reveals some of the tools that Chinese schools and universities are using special software to identify and punish students who “scale the wall”—that is, circumvent China’s Great ...

Prague-based Sinopsis has published a new investigation by Kuek Ser Kuang Keng, Chan Wei See, and Wong Kai Hui into the propagation of pro-Russian narratives about the invasion of Ukraine through ...

Last week, the Chinese government announced that it will raise the retirement age. The long-expected move is deeply unpopular but, the government holds, necessary to relieve strain on China’s work ...

In a rare event on Monday, the Chinese government has freed an American citizen who it had detained for nearly 20 years. The citizen, David Lin, was a pastor who was born in China and then lived in ...

A recent WeChat post reveals some of the tools that Chinese schools and universities are using special software to identify and punish students who “scale the wall”—that is, circumvent China ...