A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.

Hong Kong's security chief has named "soft resistance" the "most malicious" theat to national security in the city.

Meta is in court again over child safety, and this time it’s a landmark case that could force significant changes to core features of Facebook and Instagram.

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The annual events drew large crowds before Beijing cemented its grip and outlawed dissent.

Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan have been convicted of incitement to subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law.

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Lam, who eventually moved his Causeway Bay Books to Taiwan, was one of five booksellers who disappeared in 2015 and resurfaced across border.

WhatsApp caught and disrupted spear phishing attempts linked to NSO, a spyware firm blacklisted by the US government.

During the Freedom Tech track at the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum, Fergus Ryan, senior China analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, examines how authoritarian regimes are using AI to monitor citizens, censor information, spread propaganda, and suppress dissent. Drawing on years of research

The Hong Kong government has proposed to the legislature that the chief executive have the power to certify any criminal case as a national security case, which has a binding effect on the courts.

New survey data from Hong Kong Watch helps quantify the scale of the problem – including among Hong Kongers not engaged in public activism.

Zbigniew Ziobro is wanted in Poland over the alleged misuse of public funds and the deployment of Pegasus spyware against political opponents.

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The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.

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Governments and cultural institutions in Europe must challenge attempts from China to close down exhibitions and censor publications.

The Hong Kong government is seeking to forfeit funds and corporate shares linked to the crimes of jailed former media tycoon Jimmy Lai.

All Hong Kong restaurant licences will include national security clauses from September, Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan has said.

A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

中國國民黨主席鄭麗文近日率團前往中國展開其所謂「和平之旅」，期盼藉由交流降低兩岸敵意，外界關注習鄭會是否會依計畫舉行。然而，就在國民黨積極配合北京營造「和平」氛圍之際，中共當局卻再度打臉鄭麗文，於今（9）日上午突襲宣布在黃海北部進行實彈射擊。中國官媒「央廣網」報導今天引述中國海事局網站消息指出，大連海事局發布航行警告，4月9日10時至16時，黃海北部部分海域實彈射擊，禁止駛入。

Beijing’s sweeping national security law, imposed in 2020, has reshaped Hong Kong’s political landscape. With a conviction rate exceeding 90%, many people remain behind bars, and the city’s democratic...

Dutch court bans Grok's nudify tool and hits xAI with €100,000-a-day fines in Europe's first binding injunction against an AI image generator.

國防特別條例審查陷入僵局之際，中國國民黨主席辦公室今日宣布，中共中央和習近平總書記邀請鄭麗文主席率團前往大陸訪問。鄭麗文表示，感謝並欣然接受邀請，期望兩黨共同努力，推動兩岸關係和平發展，促進兩岸交流合作，為台海謀太平、為民生增福祉。鄭麗文︰感謝並欣然接受邀請

Simply showing up to a protest leaves you susceptible to all sorts of surveillance, including cameras, drones, facial recognition, and more. There's not always a lot you can do about pernicious street...

A recent article in Jacobin by Seth Ackerman on “Chinamaxxing” again reveals the usual blind spots of Western leftists…

Organizers of the 2029 World Conference of Science Journalists defend Beijing meeting as opportunity to connect with Chinese scientists

A court on Thursday used Hong Kong's national security law to jail Kwok Yin-sang for eight months, in the first case against a family member of an activist living abroad, and wanted by authorities.