The closure of dozens more newspapers signals the final fizzling of China’s once-vibrant metropolitan print media sector at the outset in 2026.

As international communication centers proliferate across China down to the county level, Xi Jinping’s grand vision for global “discourse power” meets absurd local reality.

The feeling when entering Radio Free Asia was, “We can make something important.” Our colleagues at Tian Jian look at the personal impact of the shutdown of the US service.

China’s 80th anniversary WWII celebrations weren’t just about military might—they were about rewriting history to erase America’s wartime role.

First launched as a newspaper in 1946, the flagship media group of the Chinese Communist Party is now a sprawling content empire — relaying everything from the dictates of the leadership to the latest entertainment news. But the Party, as ever, remains at the center.

Hainan leverages its strategic position to spearhead China’s local push for national discourse power from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.

An international communication initiative in the wealthy southern province of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong, plans to make propaganda resources of local creators as well as foreign expats.

As the provincial government launches a communication outpost in Dubai, it partners with an outlet CMP previously identified as having close ties to China’s foreign affairs ministry.

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.