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  • Video of Shenzhen Man Seeking to Run for Mayor Scrubbed From China’s Internet
  • China Orders Teachers to Register All Personal Social Media Accounts as Telecom Carriers Block Foreign Websites
  • Lin Chi-ling Scrubbed From China TV After Declining Taiwan Government Post

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visiontimes.com /3 days ago

Video of Shenzhen Man Seeking to Run for Mayor Scrubbed From China’s Internet

The viral video, which showed government staff unable to explain how one could run for office, was later removed from Chinese social media, igniting massive backlash among netizens...

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visiontimes.com /1 month ago

China Orders Teachers to Register All Personal Social Media Accounts as Telecom Carriers Block Foreign Websites

According to the Epoch Times, Beijing’s latest censorship push has moved beyond controlling what Chinese citizens say online to policing who is speaking and whether they can see an...

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visiontimes.com /2 days ago

Lin Chi-ling Scrubbed From China TV After Declining Taiwan Government Post

According to the Central News Agency (CNA), Lin Chi-ling, Taiwan’s most recognizable model and actress, has been quietly erased from two mainland Chinese productions in the space o...

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visiontimes.com /1 month ago

China Surveillance State: 800 Million Cameras, Total Monitoring, and Public Backlash

More than 80 million cameras across ten cities track speeders and dissidents. They don’t find missing children.

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visiontimes.com /1 month ago

China’s Telecom Crackdown May Block All Overseas Internet Access, Leaked Notice Suggests

China’s internet controls appear to be entering a new phase, one that targets not just users but the physical and commercial infrastructure that makes cross-border connectivity pos...

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scmp.com /1 month ago

China blocks Meta’s Manus deal after months-long probe, thwarting purchase

Beijing has blocked the proposed purchase by Meta Platforms of artificial intelligence firm Manus, a start-up that is officially registered in Singapore but developed its products...

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visiontimes.com /2 weeks ago

China May Be Locked Out of 2026 World Cup Broadcast as CCTV-FIFA Talks Stall

China’s state broadcaster CCTV and FIFA remain deadlocked over broadcast rights for the 2026 FIFA World Cup with roughly five weeks left before the tournament’s June 11 kickoff in...

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cbsnews.com /3 days ago

Ai Weiwei warns of worsening censorship in the West

Ai Weiwei, who published a new book, "On Censorship," warned the West is "no longer defending very basic humanity, rationality, human rights, freedom of speech."

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npr.org /1 month ago

Iran-US conflict fought amid censorships and digital fog of war

Amid the war in Iran, countries have been censoring and policing what their citizens are saying about the conflict and what information they have access to.

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visiontimes.com /1 month ago

Quan Hongchan’s Cyberbullying Scandal Fuels Debate Over Narrative Control

As outrage over Olympic diver Quan Hongchan’s long-term online abuse grips netizens in China, analysts are raising deeper questions about timing, power structures, and whether the...

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visiontimes.com /3 weeks ago

Hong Kong Ranks 140th in Global Press Freedom Index as China Remains Near Bottom

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published the 2026 World Press Freedom Index on April 30. The report shows that Hong Kong ranks 140th and remains in the worst-rated category of “ve...

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wcpo.com /1 month ago

China blocks Meta from acquiring AI startup Manus

China has banned a planned acquisition of the AI startup Manus following a probe into Meta’s planned purchase of the firm

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wtvq.com /1 month ago

China blocks Meta from acquiring AI startup Manus

(AP via SCRIPPS NEWS GROUP) – China on Monday blocked U.S. tech giant Meta’s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, in an unexpected move to reverse a deal that...

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foreignpolicy.com /1 month ago

Beijing Is Using Influencers to Burnish Its Image

“Chinamaxxing” has become an online phenomenon.

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theguardian.com /1 month ago

V&A censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer

Exclusive: Victoria and Albert Museum has deleted maps and images deemed sensitive by Beijing censors from exhibition publicationsOne of the UK’s leading museums has accepted deman...

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mydramalist.com /1 month ago

China tells C-dramas to end idolization of looks and apply Xi Jinping Thought on Culture

China urges TV dramas to reject idolization of appearance, focus on acting and story quality, and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Culture

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dailysignal.com /2 weeks ago

Self-Censorship and the Silenced Generation

Are America’s college students doing to themselves what the Chinese Communist state does to its citizens? An Ivy League professor—an old-fashioned liberal who actually cares about...

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asiatimes.com /3 weeks ago

China, Vietnam share a propaganda playbook for digital control

For years, many Western observers believed the internet would inevitably weaken authoritarian regimes. The logic seemed straightforward: once information could flow freely, state m...

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visiontimes.com /1 month ago

One Hundred Million Defy the Odds: 27 Years of Resistance and Survival in China

Under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule, two legal paradoxes persist that many citizens have come to accept as normal — yet they raise profound concerns upon closer examination. P...

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foreignpolicy.com /1 month ago

China Pulls the Plug on Meta’s AI Acquisition

The reversal underscores Beijing’s shifting national security concerns.

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taipeitimes.com /6 days ago

Drama series issue shows CCP’s need for control: MAC

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asiatimes.com /1 month ago

China’s Manus AI case sets red lines to bar ‘Singapore washing’

Beijing is seeking to clarify its decision to block Meta’s proposed acquisition of Manus, a Chinese agentic artificial intelligence (AI) startup, stressing that it will continue to...

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wired.com /4 weeks ago

The Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled

Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.

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globalissues.org /1 week ago

TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION: ‘China Feels Emboldened to Globalise Its Political Red Lines’

CIVICUS discusses the cancellation of RightsCon 2026 with Barbora Bukovská, Senior Director for Law and Policy at ARTICLE 19, a human rights organisation that works on freedom of e...

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