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Headlines and Hashtags

AI Joins China’s Primary Schools

May 19, 2025 | Alex Colville
The Ministry of Education has laid out exactly how AI will be taught and used by schoolchildren. Hopes and fears about AI and critical thinking are entirely missing the point.

Headlines and Hashtags

Redacting History

May 19, 2025 | Alex Colville

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Plucking China’s “Peach Networks”

May 13, 2025 | Dalia Parete

Tracking Control

Breaking Beijing’s Script

May 7, 2025 | Dalia Parete

Headlines and Hashtags

Respect for the Hero

Apr 30, 2025 | David Bandurski

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China’s AI Job Mirage

Apr 30, 2025 | Alex Colville

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Bringing AI Down to Earth

Apr 21, 2025 | Alex Colville

Headlines and Hashtags

AI Moves to Page One

Apr 18, 2025 | David Bandurski

Tracking Control

Television in Crisis

Apr 10, 2025 | Xiaobai Yu

The CMP Dictionary

The Feminist Five

Mar 21, 2025 | Dalia Parete
This term refers to five Chinese women activists detained without charges in March 2015 for planning anti-sexual harassment activities on International Women’s Day. Their arrest marked a turning point in China’s feminist movement, signaling the government’s hardening stance against peaceful gender equality activism.

Women’s Fist-ism

Mar 21, 2025 | Dalia Parete
“Women’s Fist-ism” (女拳) is a derogatory Chinese internet term that weaponizes wordplay—replacing “rights” (权) with “fist” (拳) in “feminism”—to portray women’s rights advocates as aggressive man-haters rather than equality seekers. Widely adopted in state media since 2021, it serves to delegitimize feminist discourse.

Community of Shared Future in Cyberspace

Mar 12, 2025 | Dalia Parete
First introduced by Xi Jinping in 2015 at the Second World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, this term represents China’s framework for international internet governance, advocating for state-led multilateral governance rather than multi-stakeholder approaches — legitimizing China’s vision of cyber sovereignty and government control of digital deve…
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B

  • Belt and Road Media Cooperation Union
  • Big Data Swindling

C

  • Chaoyang Masses
  • Chinese Discourse and Narrative System
  • Chinese-style Modernization
  • Civil Society
  • Colonized
  • Common Prosperity
  • Community of Common Destiny for Mankind
  • Community of Shared Future in Cyberspace
  • Comprehensive Cyber Governance System
  • Cooperation
  • Core

D

  • Democracy
  • Development
  • Dictator
  • Digital Hegemony
  • Digital Literacy
  • Digital Silk Road
  • Discourse Power
  • Doctrine of Good Fortune and Disaster

E

  • Era-ization
  • External Propaganda

F

  • Fengqiao Experience
  • Five Firm Grasps
  • Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
  • Five-in-One
  • Forum on Global Chinese Media
  • Four Comprehensives
  • Freedom of Speech

G

  • Global Chinese Media Cooperative Union
  • Going Into Battle Lightly Equipped
  • Good Governance
  • Great Era
  • Green Waters and Green Mountains
  • Grid Based Management
  • Guidance of Public Opinion

H

  • Harmonious Society
  • High-Level Black
  • Hostile Forces
  • Human Rights
  • Hundred Model War
  • Hyping

I

  • Ideological and Political Education
  • Important Instructions

K

  • Keyboard Warrior

L

  • Long-Distance Resistance
  • Low-Level Red
  • Lying Flat

M

  • Main Melody
  • Mainstream
  • Marxist View of Journalism
  • Media Convergence
  • Ministry of Truth
  • Modernization
  • Multilateralism

N

  • Naked Official
  • New Form of Human Civilization
  • Nine Withs (Nine Requirements)
  • Not Forgetting the Original Intention

O

  • Objectivity
  • Offering Advice
  • Old Friends of the Chinese People
  • One Institution with Two Names

P

  • Party Spirit
  • Peace
  • People’s Leader
  • Petitioning
  • Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble
  • Pilot at the Helm
  • Political Depression
  • Politicians Run the Newspapers
  • Positive Energy
  • Proletarian Revolutionary
  • Public Diplomacy

R

  • Radical Feminist
  • Red Country
  • Red Genes
  • Revenge Society
  • Rule of Law
  • Runology

S

  • Scaling the Wall
  • Science
  • Second-Generation Reds
  • Security
  • Seeking Progress in Stability
  • Self-Revolution
  • Seven Bottom Lines
  • Six Adheres
  • Smart Governance
  • Sneaky Visit
  • So-Called
  • Socialite
  • Soft Resistance
  • Soul and Root
  • Soundless Saturation / Quietly Nourishing
  • Sovereignty
  • Speaking Politics
  • Streamlining Services
  • Strong Cyber Power

T

  • Telling China’s Story Well
  • Ten Definites
  • The Feminist Five
  • The People
  • Three Closenesses
  • Three Imperatives
  • Three Supremes
  • Tranny
  • Transparency
  • Two Combines
  • Two Creates
  • Two Establishes
  • Two Newspapers and One Journal

U

  • US-West

W

  • Whole-Process Democracy
  • Women’s Fist-ism
  • Written Comments

X

  • Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era

Selected by the CMP

Headlines and Hashtags

AI Moves to Page One

Apr 18, 2025 | David Bandurski
One of China’s most celebrated metro commercial newspapers embraces artificial intelligence for front-page design, signaling deeper digital disruption in a newspaper industry facing tough times.

Tracking Control

Television in Crisis

Apr 10, 2025 | Xiaobai Yu
As programs in China become propaganda mouthpieces and meaningful content disappears, stations face financial collapse while viewers abandon traditional media entirely. Everyone inside knows the way out of the dilemma — but that door is closed by Beijing’s refusal to loosen control over public di…

China Newspeak

China’s Anti-Corruption Act

Apr 10, 2025 | Dalia Parete
The country’s leadership has launched another round of anti-corruption campaigning. But its use of classic cases, personal shaming and action posing is a reminder that it is more interested in political theater and loyalty tests than in real institutional reform.

Headlines and Hashtags

Deadly Blunders in Bangkok

Apr 2, 2025 | Alex Colville
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.

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