News Analysis China’s cyber regulator has once again drawn a red line for “self-media” and rolled out 13 regulations to tighten their management, demanding that internet platforms exercise stringent control over the content and operations of independently operated social media accounts. China experts point out that the regime’s heightened social control measures are intended to…

A Chinese-Australian dissident cartoonist is appealing to the federal government for support after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attempted to shut down his art exhibit in Poland. The exhibit, scheduled to open on June 9 at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland, presents the works of Badiucao. Its namesake, “Tell China’s…

An expert has warned that countries around the world should regulate WeChat because it is actively seeking to undermine political systems and civil societies. WeChat, which is alternatively known as Weixin, is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by the Chinese company Tencent. Seth Kaplan, Ph.D., a professorial lecturer at Johns…

While the world is awakening to the threat of TikTok, WeChat is another Chinese social media platform that is infiltrating and monitoring a huge population of Chinese people overseas. Lydia Liu is a Chinese American who found herself becoming a victim of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) censorship through WeChat, a Chinese-owned social media video-sharing…

Chinese netizens mocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies for their recent launch of ChatGPT copycats. The public launch of the AI chatbot ChatGPT has created a sensation inside China, despite Chinese Internet users needing to break through the Great Firewall to access it. Expected to be a tool to improve office and learning efficiency, ChatGPT can…

Canada’s embassy in Beijing says censors have removed its posts about a United Nations report on human rights in Xinjiang from two Chinese social media platforms. The embassy Tweeted that it shared Canada’s response to this week’s report on Weibo and WeChat, but the posts were taken down. The report published Wednesday says China’s treatment of…

Commentary NEW YORK (May 27)—Recent news is that Tencent Pictures, a film distributor and production group owned by the Shenzhen-based Chinese technology giant, has dropped financing of “Top Gun: Maverick,” the widely anticipated sequel to the 1986 smash hit film about U.S. Navy aviators at the advanced Fighter Weapons School. Reports say that Tencent thought it was…

An episode of “The Simpsons” that criticizes Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censorship appears to have been removed from Disney’s newly launched streaming channel in Hong Kong. Disney+, which rolled out in Hong Kong this month, features all episodes of the show apart from season 16, episode 12, which was first broadcast in 2005 and makes…

News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “civilizing” the internet at home and proposing similar crackdowns globally, in what should be a wake-up call to anyone who values their online freedom. China’s cyberspace regulator plans to establish a “civilized” internet that reshapes online discourse for more thorough dissemination of CCP propaganda into the daily…

News Analysis Democracies are failing to oppose Beijing’s unprecedented plan to restrict the world’s internet freedom. Beijing’s proposal to re-write internet rules and re-engineer its plumbing, supposedly to achieve security at 6G speeds, might lead to more censorship by dictatorships, the BBC told lawmakers in Britain. “China is currently promoting a new method of managing…