Emblazoned as the motto of the Central Party School and the namesake of China’s top theoretical journal, “seeking truth from facts” (实事求是) is one of the party’s most important guiding theoretical principles and has been referred to within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the “magic weapon” （法宝）behind China’s successful revolution, construction, and reform. In a nutshell, it is the combination of theory and practice as a pragmatic method of decision-making.
Updated roster shows modest growth to 1,456 sources, with expansion focused on provincial and government platforms.
After a company boss destroyed a journalist’s camera earlier this month, state media rushed to the defense, sounding off about the “right to report.” This moral signaling distracts from the systemic violence against journalism that is the real policy of the state.
DeepSeek’s latest model is its most restricted yet, particularly for users making politically sensitive queries in Chinese. Is a global split opening in AI?
The authorities are coming down hard on AI scams targeting desperate families ahead of high-stakes college entrance exams.
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.
Journalist Tania Branigan discusses the memory of the Cultural Revolution, what the US can learn from this chaotic era, and how China isn’t being forced to forget — it wants to.
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 discourse.
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.
Hundreds of gigabytes of data from an unsecured server expose how China is using artificial intelligence to automate the surveillance of online discourse, with a sophisticated classification system prioritizing military, social, and political content.