“One institution with two names” describes the frequent practice in China of giving a single Party-state body, such as a government ministry, bureau, or work unit, two distinct names. This practice is...

The “civilizational state” is the idea that China is unlike any other ordinary country, but a civilization forced into the restrictive nation-state framework developed in the West. While the notion is...

Conspiracy theories and alarmism about Cold War redux are the best selling China books on Amazon.com. We read them so you don’t have to.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Despite speculation about Xi Jinping's political troubles, our latest analysis reveals his continued dominance in Chinese state media, overshadowing all known potential rivals.

Governments and companies are underestimating the power of the high-performing AI model as a propaganda tool.

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 hyp...

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?

Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonizat...

President Trump is seeking a fundamental break from historical norms in a way that bears comparison with the decade of turmoil Mao Zedong instigated in China, albeit in a much less violent way.

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 pr...

Rise of robot-written summaries should push publishers to articulate value and impact of research more clearly, argues Oxford University Press director

One company tightly bound to the Chinese state has a stranglehold on publishing and bookselling in Hong Kong and is now making inroads into news media.

As China's vapid political circus comes to town, state media hurry to say a lot... about very little.

The Taiwanese chipmaker’s attempt to keep the US president on side is not without risks

With DeepSeek-R1 making waves around the world, tech companies are rushing to deploy the model. Some are struggling to remove pro-CCP biases, while others aren’t even bothering.

As China's DeepSeek AI is adapted to censor anti-government content in India, is the technology a gift to despots everywhere?

Chinese developers are using mock civil service exams and Communist Party ideology to train artificial intelligence – and that could shape how these models talk to the world.