Since late July, Beijing has worked to promote its own counternarrative against protesters in Hong Kong. By this account, encapsulated in a recent letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which sought to guide foreign media coverage, the movement is a foreign-backed assault on national...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source....
Chinese-Swiss poet Yang Lian has dedicated the following poem to the courageous demonstrators in Hong Kong as protests in the city enter into the 14th consecutive week. Yang Lian: To the People of...
After three months of ongoing protests in Hong Kong, Chief Executive Carrie Lam has announced the full withdrawal of the proposed extradition bill. Opposition to the bill first ignited the protest...
Despite resistance from authorities, China’s #MeToo movement is making progress with small but meaningful victories in court for individuals fighting sexual harassment and assault. The Guardian’s Lily Kuo reports on the...
On October 26th, a Twitter user reported that his WeChat account was suspended for “spreading malicious rumors” after he posted a comment about Winnie the Pooh subsequent to sharing an article on President Xi Jinping. The...
Journalist and #MeToo activist Sophia Huang Xueqin was arrested by Chinese police last week on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” after publishing an online essay about the ongoing protests in Hong...
Youths in their teens and early twenties make up a significant proportion of the protesters in Hong Kong. Living regular lives on weekdays and donning protest gear to attend rallies on weekends has become the new routine for the...
Satellite images of a Chinese military shipyard taken over several years show that China is...
On October 8, Cover News launched a survey questionnaire on Weibo asking for readers’ take...
The Trump administration is adding 28 Chinese entities including top AI companies and state...
On October 6th, a Sina Weibo user who was unhappy with the backlash over the Houston Rockets...
Amid unrest in Hong Kong over suspended extradition rules and the official response to earlier...
Amid ongoing protests in Hong Kong, police have arrested three pro-democracy lawmakers, two...
Journalist Chun Han Wong, a Singapore national who has reported for the Wall Street Journal in...
In an interview with the People’s Daily’s Xiakedao program last week, Zheng Yongnian, former...
Seven months after being detained by Chinese authorities shortly after landing in Guangzhou, Yang...
This week, the Beijing-based Unirule Institute of Economics announced that it would close after...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The emerging use of artificial intelligence-aided analysis in public school classrooms has raised...
Chinese human rights lawyer Chen Qiushi confirmed that he has returned safely to mainland China...
The letter above was sent this week to more than 30 international news organizations including...
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