When a skyscraper built by a Chinese state company was the only to collapse in during the recent earthquake, China’s first response was not rescue — it was information lockdown.

On a tour of cities in China, Indonesian influencers gushed about food and culture while millions of followers watched. Seemingly spontaneous, the tour was actually a Chinese state strategy.

As China’s DeepSeek AI is adapted to censor anti-government content in India, is the technology a gift to despots everywhere?

Through on-the-ground reporting, the WeChat-based outlet Positive Connections offers rare insight into the cyber scam compounds along the Thailand-Myanmar border — questioning prevailing Chinese public opinion that scapegoats Southeast Asian countries.

A Bangkok summit celebrating China’s engagement in Southeast Asia reveals Beijing’s growing use of both national and provincial propaganda outlets to shape regional narratives.

An oddly compliant question from the foreign press corps on the sidelines of this year’s National People’s Congress kicked up a simple question: Who is China-Arab TV?

As China pursues water diplomacy with countries along the Lower Mekong, seeking to strike a benevolent tone and downplay environmental and livelihood impacts that have concerned local communities, another big tool in its toolbox is media diplomacy.

A training session for Southeast Asian journalists hosted by the foreign affairs office in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang is a reminder that China’s state agendas are being actively pushed not just from the top, but from the local and regional levels as well.

Over the past few days, a strange apparition has haunted the sidebar of an English-language news site in Cambodia — an eery and unexplained echo of a long-abandoned policy that China’s leaders once staunchly defended.