Stories from across the Sinosphere

Mandatory year-end accounting reports by Chinese state media treat "external propaganda" as a distinct, measurable pillar of their work. A recent policy piece by the top editor of China Daily lifts th...

The longest-running annual survey of LGBT+ representation in China’s media has marked 15 years, but the coverage it was meant to document has become rarer than ever.

These stories and more, including animal rights protests in Chongqing ahead of what officials hoped would be a marquee global media event.

As China's top leader arrived in North Korea for his first visit since 2019, there was very little to read in the Party-run press — but much more to be unpacked.

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.

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.

All Chinese live today with the information legacy of Tiananmen. We look back at the brief moment before the crackdown when China's press stood with those demanding change.

African journalists flock to Chinese training programs expecting to learn their craft. What they get instead is sightseeing, subtle pressure — and a debt of gratitude, says author Emeka Umejei.

Germany ranks among the world's stronger press freedom environments, and its Chinese-language media landscape reflects that openness, encompassing newspapers with documented ties to party-state entiti...

The territory's leading press union faces a coordinated online assault after its chairperson exposes a government tax campaign targeting independent journalists.

Taiwan's public broadcaster is caught in a political double bind: its sitting board chair has been expelled from parliament, and the opposition is blocking a replacement.

As Donald Trump sits down with China's top leader, the Chinese Communist Party's flagship newspaper offers a muted masterclass in calibrated messaging.

From content-sharing deals with major broadcasters to diaspora media linked to the PRC party-state, China has built a layered media presence in Greece that exploits a fragmented landscape weakened by ...

As Spain's prime minister wraps up his fourth visit to Beijing in just over three years, Lingua Sinica sits down with Shiany Pérez-Cheng to examine another side of the relationship — how media partner...

One of Taiwan's top newspapers published a political story fabricated by a chatbot — and then pushed responsibility squarely onto the reporter, raising further questions about accountability.

Hong Kong photojournalist Tyrone Siu has won a regional World Press Photo award for an image capturing a man's final moments of contact with his wife, who would perish in Hong Kong's deadliest fire in...

While journalists around the world grapple with the existential impact of AI, China’s closed and repressive media system sees it only as a production boon.

On the eve of International Women's Day this month, China shut down at least ten WeChat accounts — part of a widening censorship campaign tied to Beijing's push to reverse a record-low birth rate.

China's state media rails against AI manipulation — even as the Party tightens its own grip on chatbots. In Hong Kong, the squeeze on independent media continues.

A little-known academic network run by China's top communication university is looking to export Xi Jinping's vision of a new world order, one overseas campus at a time.

A little-known academic network run by China's top communication university is looking to export Xi Jinping's vision of a new world order, one overseas campus at a time.

China is shutting down hundreds of local TV and radio channels — and rebuilding its propaganda apparatus online.

When China's consulate pressured a theater in France to cancel the Taiwanese production "This Is Not an Embassy," it proved the play's point more vividly than any performance could.

These stories and more — including a journalist's AI child experiment to sidestep China's marriage pressure, and young Chinese women weighing the costs of motherhood — in the latest Intersection.

A series of patents filed the past two years indicates that institutions across China are working out how to use AI to improve grassroots surveillance

A simple technical test reveals that the Alibaba AI model Qwen has been broadly aligned to give positive messages about China in English.

The first charge under a new Czech security law tests where foreign state journalism ends — and intelligence work begins.