Hong Kong’s leading press union faces a coordinated online assault after its chairperson exposes a government tax campaign targeting independent...

   Taiwan’s public broadcaster is caught in a political double bind: its sitting board chair has been expelled from parliament, and the opposition is...

   Today’s People’s Daily is a masterclass in what China’s state media doesn’t say. Trump’s Beijing visit, the biggest diplomatic event in years, doesn...

   As Greece deepens its ties with China, from Piraeus port to Belt and Road, expert Plamen TOnchev sits down with Lingua Sinica to examine how content...

   As Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez makes his fourth visit to Beijing in four years, scholar Shiany Pérez-Cheng, sitting down with Lingua Sinica,...

   One of Taiwan’s top newspapers published a political story fabricated by a chatbot and then pushed responsibility squarely onto the reporter, raising...

   Hong Kong photojournalist Tyrone Siu has won a regional World Press Photo award for an image capturing a man’s final moments of contact with his wife...

   At a media forum in Zhengzhou last weekend, foreign influencers praised China’s authenticity, while AI was celebrated as the ultimate tool for...

   On the eve of International Women’s Day this month, China shut down at least ten WeChat accounts part of a widening censorship campaign tied to...

   Our newsletter (of sorts) is back at Lingua Sinica with thoughts on the vagaries of AI and the nature of meaningful human work. And a few solid...

   In case you missed it this deep-dive by Jordyn Haime into China’s growing network of research centers under Xi Jinping’s shared futures concept is a...

   A little-known academic network run by China’s top communication university is looking to export Xi Jinping’s vision of a new world order, one...

   The Great Broadcasting Retreat: China is shutting down hundreds of local TV and radio channels and rebuilding its propaganda apparatus online. Dalia...

   China’s consulate in Strasbourg pressured a French theater and city officials to cancel a Taiwanese play that simulates the opening of a Taiwanese...

   New Intersections is live This month: China tells women having babies is a patriotic duty; Bu Xiaohua’s captor walks free; young Chinese women are...

   Recent patent filings indicate that institutions across China are working out how to use AI for grassroots surveillance, and to predict protests...

   A simple technical test reveals that Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI models have been broadly aligned to give positive messages about China in English.&#&#https...

   Yang’s case raises serious questions about how state media from the People’s Republic of China operate in Europe and how European governments should...

   The first charge under a new Czech security law tests where foreign state journalism ends and intelligence work begins. https: lingua-sinica.org...

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   Excellent reveals in this piece. We had not really heard about these guidance analysis meetings (å å å üs) held by propaganda offices, regular...

   The recent detention by local police in Chengdu of investigative journalist Liu Hu drives home the most extreme dangers facing Chinese journalists....

   The closure of longstanding debate programs at public broadcaster RTHK signals a retreat from editorial independence as the network openly aligns...

   Xi Jinping: A Year in the Headlines China’s leader maintained a commanding lead in the headlines of the CCP’s flagship People’s Daily in 2025,...

   New on the Lingua Sinica website: Why did Canada’s last Chinese daily newspaper just close? https: lingua-sinica.org canadas-last-chinese-daily...

   1 4 New from rferl.org.web.brid.gy on Afghanistan’s media landscape has collapsed since the Taliban takeover. Hundreds of outlets shut down,...

   While the West celebrates a new cultural watershed in male romance, Boy’s Love has been a mature, multi-billion dollar industry across Asia for...

   At Lingua Sinica, our site for global Chinese-language media insights (and PRC global media mapping) we look at the closure in Canada of Ming Pao,...

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   Though easy to forget now as Trump’s actions sow division between the US and the EU over the Arctic China’s ambitions in the region have been at the...