AI anchors and AI-generated dramas are growing rapidly in China. But how far can a generative persona go before the illusion is broken? Meet Peach Fang.

Last week, after Hong Kong’s security chief renewed attacks on the territory’s independent journalists’ union, a group of pro-government media outlets became force multipliers — the latest concerning sign for press freedom there.

A Chinese blockbuster dramatizing the 17th-century Qing conquest of Taiwan has been abruptly postponed. Why are China’s authorities so uneasy about a film that was meant to celebrate “unification”?

A weekly television series produced by Hong Kong’s security bureau, recasting political prosecutions as morality tales, tells its own unfortunate story — about the convergence of media and political power in what was once one of Asia’s freest press environments.

An op-ed in Germany argues Europe should embrace Chinese AI models, which are powerful and inexpensive. But as the price of dependency on US models climbs, could safety and security concerns fall by the wayside?

A job posting from China’s first provincial-level global propaganda hub reveals a system hunting for talent, courting foreign influencers, and still searching for something meaningful to say.

As China’s economy sputters, journalists are falling silent — not for lack of facts, but because the space for telling these stories continues to narrow, undermining the public’s ability to understand how the economy actually functions.

Whether China pressured Zambia to cancel RightsCon, the world’s largest digital rights summit, remains an open question for some. But recent history suggests a pattern.

As China’s provincial propaganda apparatus reaches into Europe through cultural diplomacy, even storied universities can find themselves unwitting partners in the enterprise.