About a month after her release from the Shanghai Women’s Prison in May 2024, citizen journalist and former lawyer Zhang Zhan (張展) made her first post
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Xi Isn’t Done Reshaping China’s Top Military Body
Two of China’s top generals, Zhang Youxia (張又俠) and Liu Zhenli (劉振立), were seen missing from a public event on January 20. Domino Theory was one of
Nvidia’s H200 Is Headed to Chinese Military Firms
Chinese regulators have reportedly approved the first shipments of the H200, the flagship AI chip from Nvidia’s previous generation that had been
X Says China Floods Site With Porn to Drown Out Unrest
The head of product at X (formerly Twitter) has accused the Chinese government of flooding the app’s search results “with porn whenever there is
Why the Xinjiang Camps Closed
The night before she was released, Tursunay Ziyawudun couldn’t sleep. For 10 months, locked in a reeducation camp near her hometown in Xinjiang, she
China Seeks to Shape the Cross-Strait Battlefield Through Cognitive Warfare
Capping off a busy year for Chinese cognitive warfare operations in 2025, China’s Eastern Theater Command created a homemade music video compiling
Zhang Youxia, China’s Most Senior General, Could Be in Trouble
Two of China’s top generals, Zhang Youxia (張又俠) and Liu Zhenli (劉振立), apparently did not attend a gathering of all of China’s senior political leaders
Xinjiang Whistleblower Awaits Asylum Decision While Chinese Influencers Work to Discredit Him
When BuzzFeed News published its 2020 expose on the scale and architecture of China’s crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the report didn’t just touch
Who Are the Churches That China Is Persecuting?
On the night of December 14, over 1,000 police officers surrounded Yayang Church in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. At 3 a.m. they burst into the church “with
The Difference Between Chinese and U.S. Special Forces
The U.S. capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has inspired discussion about the implications for China and Taiwan. Will Beijing feel
China May Not Have Built Its Last Conventional Aircraft Carrier
Across the backend of 2025, two parallel tracks of rumors about aircraft carriers ran through Chinese-language military watchers on social media. The
Taiwan Invasion Would Bring Severe Economic Pain for China
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, China has doubled down on an economic strategy that prioritizes high-tech manufacturing and export dominance. Investment