Conversation
03.15.24
Time up for TikTok?
On March 13, in a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that could result in TikTok’s being unable to do business in the U.S. What does the rapid passage of the bill in the House say about the state...
The China Africa Project
05.09.18
For Better or Worse, Africa’s Digital Future is Tied to China
Chinese tech companies are now the most important players in Africa’s rapid emergence as one of the world’s fastest growing digital markets. People’s Republic of China companies, private and state-owned, are working with local telecom operators...
Viewpoint
11.03.17
The Future of Particle Physics Will Live and Die in China
from Foreign Policy
“Don’t you dare kill my project.”My phone interview with a senior official at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) had started with bland, yet polite, responses. But it took a sharp turn toward audible agitation and hostility as I raised my final...
Conversation
05.09.17
Can China’s Approach to Internet Control Spread around the World?
Earlier this month, citing concerns over “cyber sovereignty,” China’s Internet regulators announced new restrictions on the country’s already tightly controlled Internet—further curbing online news reporting and putting Party-appointed editors in...
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01.23.17Forget Xi’s ‘Defense’ of Globalization. China Just Fortified the Great Firewall.
Washington Post
Over the weekend, China announced a new, year-long crackdown on “unauthorized Internet connections.”
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08.25.16China Moves to Ease Foreign Concerns on Cybersecurity Controls
Wall Street Journal
China will allow Microsoft, Cisco, other foreign tech companies to join the influential Technical Committee 260.
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07.14.16Likely Hack of U.S. Banking Regulator by China Covered Up
Reuters
The report was released amid growing concern about the vulnerability of the international banking system.
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06.27.16China Is Another Step Closer to Controversial Cybersecurity Law
Fortune
The draft requires network operators to comply with social morals and accept the supervision of the government and public.
Media
01.05.16
China’s Top 5 Censored Posts in 2015
Chinese President Xi Jinping rounded off 2015 by posting his first message on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, in the form of a new year’s greeting to the People’s Liberation Army. His post received 52,000 comments, mostly fawning messages of...
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08.31.15China Punishes Nearly 200 Over ‘Rumors’ About Stocks, Blasts and Parade
New York Times
The moves indicate the political sensitivities aggravated in recent weeks by several volatile issues.
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08.05.14China ‘Investigating Canada Couple Over State Secrets’
BBC
Chinese authorities are investigating a Canadian couple suspected of stealing state secrets about national defense and the military, state media say.
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02.25.14Pushing Back Against Government Surveillance
New York Times
Xie Yanyi, a Beijing lawyer, asked the Ministry of Public Security to tell him about Chinese security officials’ spying on their own citizens.
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01.22.14China’s Temporary-Worker Ploy
New York Times
Scandals are often blamed on lin shi gong, or “temporary workers," but why have they been hired in the first place?
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03.14.13China Plenty Creative, Just Not in Right Ways
WSJ: China Real Time Report
The best innovation in the post-industrial world comes from “the sharing of knowledge and information across a variety of fields,” something economist Arthur Kroeber says China’s restriction on free information actively stanches.
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08.01.12Beijing’s Growing Credibility Gap
CNN
Authoritarian regimes have traditionally relied heavily on controlling the flow of information that their subjects receive as a critical element of maintaining political power. The Chinese Communist Party is no different: they have an extensive and...
Reports
11.22.05
Internet Development and Information Control in the People’s Republic of China
Peony Lui
Congressional Research Service
Since its founding in 1949, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has often been accused of manipulating the flow of information and prohibiting the dissemination of viewpoints that criticize the government or stray from the official Communist party...