As military and diplomatic tensions rise across the Taiwan Strait, China is combining hard power moves with a soft approach — leveraging the cross-strait popularity of television dramas.

One of China’s leading professional news outlets published a report this month on the corruption story behind a young official’s drowning in rural Hunan. Deleted within hours, the report was a reminder of the strict limits facing accountability journalism in Xi Jinping’s China.

A former star of Chinese state television turns her camera on a Taiwanese journalist wounded in the Tiananmen crackdown — and on the limits of what witnesses could say at the time.

Taiwan’s top intelligence body has launched a portal allowing Chinese nationals to securely submit political, military, and economic information.

A new documentary tackles the structural forces strangling Taiwan’s news industry — from platform monopolies and traffic-driven journalism to the advertising dollars that feed the cycle.

In Chongqing this week, police clashed with animal rights protesters while state media lit up the sky for an international media forum hosted by the country’s largest state-run media conglomerate. 

Facebook and Instagram remove a post marking the 14th anniversary of Tiananmen activist Li Wangyang’s death.

When China’s flagship official newspaper introduces a dating app and starts hosting singles mixers for troops and government workers, you know the demographic issue has entered a new phase. 

A Taiwanese publisher has completed his prison sentence but remains stuck in China, as the CCP uses his case as a warning to those who publish books it does not like.