The state is ever more insistent on a reality at odds with people’s experience. That’s not a good sign for progress.

Reports of books, films, and even ideas being banned in China are common—and often inaccurate. Bans are often portrayed as ...

The internet in China is already tightly controlled and censored. The "Great Firewall" blocks the country's more than 1 billion users from accessing international sites and services without a ...

The country's "Great Firewall" disrupted all traffic on TCP port 443, used for HTTPS, for 74 minutes on August 20, 2025, but ...

Myanmar artist Sai recounts his experiences of pressure from Chinese authorities to remove works by exiled artists from a ...

Ashby Foote reviews Patrick McGee’s book, saying it offers plenty of critical lessons for investors, business tycoons and ...

China forces censorship of Hong Kong and Uyghur artworks in Thailand - Exhibition curator flees to UK from Thailand as he ...

Recent articles have highlighted the ways in which various Chinese groups attempt to circumvent censorship in the liminal spaces of its enforcement. Across different domains, shifts in censorship ...

Authoritarians in the Academy’ explores the impact of foreign influence on U.S. universities, including a ‘quiet’ pressure to ...

The hashtag phrase "beauty in the time of economic upswings," often accompanied by early 2000s pictures, surged in social media mentions over the summer just as 12.2 million university students ...

Took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark China cut ...