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China online censorship
![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.
![How Zero COVID Protests Broke Through China’s Internet Censorship How Zero COVID Protests Broke Through China’s Internet Censorship](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-12-05-170120.jpg)
How Zero COVID Protests Broke Through China’s Internet Censorship
By Larry Mullin
China’s infamous Great Firewall cracked amid late November’s protests – the exact thing the censorship apparatus was designed to prevent.
![China’s Nationalist Cancel Culture China’s Nationalist Cancel Culture](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-flag-protest1.jpg)
China’s Nationalist Cancel Culture
By Bingqing Yang
In China, celebrities can be blacklisted in the span of days – or even hours – for perceived offenses against national dignity.
![Ghost in the Machine: A Faceless, Famous Chinese Blogger Goes Silent Ghost in the Machine: A Faceless, Famous Chinese Blogger Goes Silent](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2021-07-22-13.jpg)
Ghost in the Machine: A Faceless, Famous Chinese Blogger Goes Silent
By Jesse Turland
An anonymous Chinese tech and political blogger called “Program-Think” stopped posting in May, and rumors are swirling as to why.
![China’s Digital Cultural Revolution China’s Digital Cultural Revolution](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-flag-cyber2.jpg)
China’s Digital Cultural Revolution
By Johanna M. Costigan and Xu Xin
Hyper-nationalist online attacks, like the campaign against Fang Fang, have disturbing parallels to the Mao era.
![China’s Schools, Forced Online By Coronavirus, Run Into Censors China’s Schools, Forced Online By Coronavirus, Run Into Censors](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-3303411__480.jpg)
China’s Schools, Forced Online By Coronavirus, Run Into Censors
By Associated Press
With schools closed indefinitely, teachers are giving lectures online – where they risk abrupt and often unexplained censorship.
![Worried About Huawei? Take a Closer Look at Tencent Worried About Huawei? Take a Closer Look at Tencent](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-ap_19080392177908.jpg)
Worried About Huawei? Take a Closer Look at Tencent
By Sarah Cook
The Chinese social media giant is a growing global force, and it does the bidding of the Communist Party.
![Uyghurs’ Present Is the Future for Most Chinese Uyghurs’ Present Is the Future for Most Chinese](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-camera-1124585_1280.jpg)
Uyghurs’ Present Is the Future for Most Chinese
By Chauncey Jung
Even Chinese overseas are not exempt from Beijing’s constant control.
![Facebook’s Plan to Enter China Is Doomed to Fail Facebook’s Plan to Enter China Is Doomed to Fail](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-twitter-292994_1280.jpg)
Facebook’s Plan to Enter China Is Doomed to Fail
By Chuzi Xiao
It's not just a question of censorship; many Chinese government policies would work against Facebook.
![China’s Party Congress Hints at Media Strategy for a ‘New Era’ China’s Party Congress Hints at Media Strategy for a ‘New Era’](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-chinese-tv.jpg)
China’s Party Congress Hints at Media Strategy for a ‘New Era’
By Sarah Cook
China stresses party dominance, innovative propaganda, cultural influence, and globalization of its governance model.
![China’s Newest Censorship Methods on Display China’s Newest Censorship Methods on Display](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat.com-green-vpn-logo.jpg)
China’s Newest Censorship Methods on Display
By Sarah Cook
A month riddled with perilous anniversaries offers a showcase for the Communist Party's upgraded internet controls.
![The WeChat Phenomenon: Social Media with Chinese Characteristics The WeChat Phenomenon: Social Media with Chinese Characteristics](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat.com-11809405144_14dff44a60_b.jpg)
The WeChat Phenomenon: Social Media with Chinese Characteristics
By Lauren Dickey
WeChat has become an inescapable part of life in China, but its popularity carries risks.
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