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![Censorship Is No Solution to China’s Public Safety Problem Censorship Is No Solution to China’s Public Safety Problem](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-flag-prison1.jpg)
Censorship Is No Solution to China’s Public Safety Problem
By Yaqiu Wang
Information about a recent spate of knife attacks has been suppressed, leading to anger and speculation.
![As US Tech Firms Bow to China’s Censorship, Chinese Users Risk Everything to Defy It As US Tech Firms Bow to China’s Censorship, Chinese Users Risk Everything to Defy It](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2021-04-12-8.jpg)
As US Tech Firms Bow to China’s Censorship, Chinese Users Risk Everything to Defy It
By Yaqiu Wang
Apple continues to remove the tools that ordinary citizens rely on for unfettered speech, even as some use any means possible to speak up.
![Apple-Baidu Partnership Risks Accelerating China’s Influence Over the Future of Generative AI Apple-Baidu Partnership Risks Accelerating China’s Influence Over the Future of Generative AI](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-04-17-124522.jpg)
Apple-Baidu Partnership Risks Accelerating China’s Influence Over the Future of Generative AI
By Michael Caster
Such partnerships risk further normalizing Beijing’s authoritarian model of digital governance and accelerating China’s efforts to standardize its AI policies and technologies globally.
![Ian Johnson on the ‘Sparks’ Illuminating China’s Hidden History Ian Johnson on the ‘Sparks’ Illuminating China’s Hidden History](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-10-26-131403.jpg)
Ian Johnson on the ‘Sparks’ Illuminating China’s Hidden History
By Shannon Tiezzi
“In terms of China, the dominant storyline is the surveillance state has won; China is a lost cause. My book shows that this isn’t the case.”
![Are Foreign Musicians Banned From Performing in China? Are Foreign Musicians Banned From Performing in China?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-07-21-205820.jpg)
Are Foreign Musicians Banned From Performing in China?
By Larry Mullin
Not so fast, say those on the ground.
![No Bears Allowed: China’s Latest Round of Economic Censorship No Bears Allowed: China’s Latest Round of Economic Censorship](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2021-04-12-8.jpg)
No Bears Allowed: China’s Latest Round of Economic Censorship
By Sarah Cook
When the Chinese economy sputters, the regime’s censors shift into high gear.
![China’s Crackdown on Foreign Firms Is a Symptom of a Much Deeper Problem China’s Crackdown on Foreign Firms Is a Symptom of a Much Deeper Problem](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-flag-prison1.jpg)
China’s Crackdown on Foreign Firms Is a Symptom of a Much Deeper Problem
By Sarah Cook
Investigations in the business sector are just the tip of the iceberg. Politicized prosecutions are a growing blight on Chinese society.
![Chinese Citizen Journalist Who Reported on COVID-19 to Be Released After 3 Years Chinese Citizen Journalist Who Reported on COVID-19 to Be Released After 3 Years](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-flag-prison1.jpg)
Chinese Citizen Journalist Who Reported on COVID-19 to Be Released After 3 Years
By Kanis Leung and Huizhong Wu
Fang Bin posted details about the pandemic situation in Wuhan in early 2020. He spent three years in jail for his efforts.
![2 College Students in China Were Disciplined for Giving Out Pride Flags. Can the Law Help Them? 2 College Students in China Were Disciplined for Giving Out Pride Flags. Can the Law Help Them?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-04-27-195945.jpg)
2 College Students in China Were Disciplined for Giving Out Pride Flags. Can the Law Help Them?
By Ding Yuan and Darius Longarino
The case illustrates the intersection of a tightening grip on LGBTQ expression, especially on college campuses, and the determination of some young Chinese to fight for more space.
![Chinese Ambassador’s Comments Reveal China’s Willful Misreading of Soviet History Chinese Ambassador’s Comments Reveal China’s Willful Misreading of Soviet History](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-04-27-141906.jpg)
Chinese Ambassador’s Comments Reveal China’s Willful Misreading of Soviet History
By William Nee
Lu Shaye’s gaffe underlines a serious problem: China’s complete refusal to acknowledge the abuses of the Soviet Union is impacting foreign policy decisions.
![Xi Jinping and China’s Censorship Trap Xi Jinping and China’s Censorship Trap](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-12-12-204305.jpg)
Xi Jinping and China’s Censorship Trap
By Ge Chen
Why didn't China's leader crack down hard on the protesters calling for him to resign? He may never have heard those calls in the first place.
![China’s Information Problems Are Only Getting Worse China’s Information Problems Are Only Getting Worse](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-09-13-134945.jpg)
China’s Information Problems Are Only Getting Worse
By Eduardo Jaramillo
Xi’s insistence on personal loyalty risks a climate of sycophancy and rigid unanimity in the ranks of China’s top leaders.
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