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Aug 10, 2011
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David Bandurski
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Is Xi’s Grip Holding?
Jun 26, 2025 | David Bandurski
Despite speculation about the waning media presence of China’s top leader, our study of headlines in the People’s Daily suggests his dominance remains largely intact.
Flooding in Hunan Drowned Out
Jun 26, 2025 | Alex Colville
While the Iran crisis has dominated Chinese social media, record floods displacing 400,000 people in Hunan province have struggled for public attention.
A Media Corruption Case in Shanghai
Jun 23, 2025 | David Bandurski
Local police allege that a WeChat account extorted hundreds of thousands of yuan from companies — revealing how corruption persists in China’s tightly controlled information landscape.
A Trump Card for China’s Media
Jun 16, 2025 | Alex Colville
The authoritarian actions of the Trump administration have added jet fuel to one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most enduring external propaganda frames — that the United States is fundamentally hypocritical when it comes to rights and freedoms.
A Big Test for AI in China
Jun 2, 2025 | David Bandurski
The authorities are coming down hard on AI scams targeting desperate families ahead of high-stakes college entrance exams.
Invasion of the Robots
May 28, 2025 | David Bandurski
China’s first humanoid boxing tournament generated enthusiastic coverage from media outlets across the world —revealing how tech hype clickbait can serve the goals of external propaganda.
A Taiwan Slip on Chinese Television
May 23, 2025 | David Bandurski
An anchor on state television this week referred to Taiwan and China as separate countries during live newscast. The authorities scrambled to contain the story.
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.
Redacting History
May 19, 2025 | Alex Colville
An old video surfaced last week to commemorate a devastating quake nearly 20 years ago. But key portions of the original were conspicuously absent — a reminder that in China, the past is always dangerously present.
Plucking China’s “Peach Networks”
May 13, 2025 | Dalia Parete
A state television exposé last month claimed to unmask exploitative dating apps, but it also exposed how cyclical media campaigns serve official narratives in China’s tightly controlled information landscape.
Respect for the Hero
Apr 30, 2025 | David Bandurski
A young auxiliary officer in Xinjiang grips hearts across China with a daring rescue, but her act of courage unveils deeper questions about worker equity and state response to public questioning.
China’s AI Job Mirage
Apr 30, 2025 | Alex Colville
State media portrays artificial intelligence as a near-magical solution to the country’s youth employment challenges, but interviews with actual job seekers reveal a more complicated picture.
Bringing AI Down to Earth
Apr 21, 2025 | Alex Colville
Are Chinese media exaggerating the elevated state of the country’s AI technology? A senior scientist says yes—and warns that hype is blinding China to looming challenges.
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.
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.
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.
China’s Monologue Machine
Apr 2, 2025 | David Bandurski
The newest “international communication center” in Hunan recruits college volunteers to promote state-approved narratives about local development to foreign audiences. Is this strategic thinking, or a fatal failure to grasp how communication works?
War Games
Apr 1, 2025 | David Bandurski
Beijing conjures ancient magic to transform military threats into mythical adventures — but Taiwan sees nothing supernatural about the missiles pointed at its shores.
Pen Names, Stern Warnings
Mar 25, 2025 | David Bandurski
Over the weekend, a state-run newspaper used a coded byline to signal concern about local government waste. It was a reminder of how the internal communication of the Chinese Communist Party works through an opaque system of institutional pseudonyms.
A River Crisis Prompts Rare Coverage
Mar 24, 2025 | David Bandurski
Chinese media outlets have taken the unusual step of more openly covering a toxic thallium contamination in Hunan’s Leishuei River, exposing a crisis kept under wraps for a full week.
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