Hype around China’s “digital panopticon” is huge. But according to Minxin Pei, an expert in Chinese governance and mass surveillance, cutting-edge tech is just one part of the Party-state’s toolkit, which also leans heavily on manpower and pervasive self-censorship — what he calls China’s “sentinel state.”

China’s attitudes towards AI may be at a turning point, with officials not only pushing it up the list of priorities but also coming to terms with its existential capabilities.

Navigating censorship and nationalism has given rise to “pink feminism,” a new trend couching feminist ideals in the language of “little pink” nationalism. Is this just a marriage of convenience, or something more?