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
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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
TikTok Signs Deal to Sell U.S. Entity
The many months of uncertainty about TikTok’s fate in the U.S. seems to be coming to a close. Axios is reporting that TikTok CEO Shou Chew sent a memo
Chinese State-Backed Accounts Unmasked on X
Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, launched a new feature this week that fights disinformation by revealing the true locations of user
Human Rights & China: November 28, 2025
Indian Citizen Detained at Shanghai Airport An Indian woman says she was detained and harassed while transiting through Shanghai because the place
China to Rerelease Taiwanese Movie About Anti-Japanese Rebellion
China will rerelease the Taiwanese film “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale” (賽德克．巴萊) in December amid tensions with Japan over Taiwan. The