US-PRC convergence takes another step forward as Washington adopts the time-honoured practice of "One Institution with Two Names" (一個機構兩塊牌子).

CCTV has a montage of cute small children watching the military parade yesterday, netizens saying this is "the best patriotic education." There really isn't any national security topic state media hasn't tried levering cuteness into to make it more appealing. mbd.baidu.com/newspage/dat...

On parade day, amid talk of a new world order, Jordyn Haime looks at the notion of China as a "civilizational state" (文明型国家). Arising years before "civilization" joined the core of CCP thought, it connects today to Xi's “Global Civilization Initiative.” chinamediaproject.org/the_ccp_dict...

China’s growth is impressive, but have you seen Taiwan’s growth?

One of those articles that gives the most terrifying possible answer to the question "is AI *really* stealing my job?"

I've been reading the court docs and it is incredibly upsetting reading. Absolutely awful.

Great piece from @alexludoboyd.bsky.social on what America is actually reading about China: "American reading appetites, when it comes to China, skew towards conspiracy theories and analyses of Cold War redux" Willing to bet the UK little different.

Boris Johnson in Taiwan suggests "the solution to the cross-strait dispute would be to ask Beijing if they really wanted Taiwan." Give the man his Nobel Peace Prize. Kudos to Sasha B. Chhabra for pointing out the DPP paying BJ and Liz Truss 100k to speak on Taiwan is money down the drain.

DeepSeek web version says it can't talk about a serious bullying incident in China that's currently a public scandal. Chinese AI being coopted into the wider "social stability" system...

That's quite the headline.

Visualizing Power in China’s Press: Despite speculation about Xi Jinping’s political troubles, our latest analysis reveals his continued dominance in Chinese state media, overshadowing all known potential rivals. chinamediaproject.org/2025/07/10/v...

DeepSeek’s Democratic Deficit: Governments and companies are underestimating the power of the high-performing AI model as a propaganda tool. chinamediaproject.org/2025/06/24/d...

The authoritarian actions of the Trump administration have added jet fuel to one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most enduring external propaganda frames — that the United States is fundamentally hypocritical when it comes to rights and freedoms. chinamediaproject.org/2025/06/16/a...

HK’s Environment Protection Dep’t says the wastewater will be too diluted by the time it hits HK to cause damage, so that is reassuring. But if you followed all the official hysteria and state media fear-mongering around the release of treated wastewater from Fukushima, it is also extremely ironic.

This man sounds like he is from mainland China. In the video, he is crying "help" in Chinese (“救命“). I'm so heartbroken for immigrants from China and around the world who are experiencing this. (Then one naturally wonders, "am I the next, with my strange name and my accent?")

DeepSeek's latest model is its most restricted yet, particularly for users making politically sensitive queries in Chinese. The company's success has likely invited more concerted government involvement. That could set the tone for any other Chinese LLMs that become as famous as they have.

Xi Jinping's daughter, Xi Mingze (習明澤), joined a private dinner with Lukashenko on June 8, her first-ever appearance at a dinner with a foreign leader, according to Belarus state media.

The world is upside down. Harvard students interviewed on campus about the international student ban by *Chinese state media journalists*, request anonymity "for fear of retaliation from the US government." baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1833179...

Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonization (1895–1945).

If you’re going to get upset with someone, at least explain why. Otherwise there’s only two possibilities: 1. You can’t 2. You can but won’t Oh. And angrily restating your opinion isn’t an argument.

Anyone seeking to pad their resumé should check out Michael Kovrig's LinkedIn, 2018-2021. What a way to turn an awful situation on its head.

4月15日凌晨，四川成都 某高架桥上被人悬挂横幅 “没有政治体制改革就没有民族复兴” “人民不需要一个权力不受制约的政党” “中国不需要谁指明方向，民主才是方向”

Spent all week looking for the perfect China tariff meme. Finally found it

These sorts of comparisons are still too sensational. As long as citizens in small-town America aren't being beaten to death in show trials for being "anti-MAGA", and news editors aren't jumping to their deaths for criticizing Trump, the US is NOT doing its own version of the "Cultural Revolution."

I love where OpenAI goes with its test prompts

Hundreds of gigabytes of data from an unsecured server expose how China is using artificial intelligence to automate the surveillance of online discourse, with a sophisticated classification system prioritizing military, social, and political content. chinamediaproject.org/2025/03/24/c...

Slightly worrying…

Party leadership steadfastly adheres to Andrew Jackson's Conception of Judicial Irrelevance, Reaganomics Theory, the Silicon Valley Outlook on Development, Moving Fast and Breaking Things, and Donald Trump Thought on the Art of the Deal in the New Era, to preserve the Party with Trump as its core.

The launch of Google’s AI-powered search summaries has led to a 19% drop in click-through to academic reference services according to OUP product strategy director John Campbell: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-sear...

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An outrageous injustice to ordinary Chinese people, and would shut the US off from a large talent supply. Is there really no other way to root out spies than banning an entire population?

I don’t think you should be able to revoke a degree for anything other than fraud in obtaining the degree itself. It’s a qualification, not an honor.

OK, I am an @openai customer, but it literally is not training on any mainland Chinese data even though China is the top or top two producers of original texts on the planet. It's really inexcusable how bad the Chinese language results are

My swan song for the China Media Project: an investigation into the state-run Sino United Publishing group that operates a virtual monopoly on the printing and selling of books in Hong Kong. Readers might know about its links to the Liaison Office exposed in 2015, but a lot has happened since then.

Top Party cadres praise Xinhua yesterday for their coverage of Xi Jinping's actions during the Two Sessions. Here's some of that sparkling coverage.

Spot the American reporter who was so overcome with patriotism, he couldn't help but sing the Chinese anthem? Netizens did. It got 25,000 likes. A few observations from coverage of this year's Two Sessions, mixed in with tidbits on how it works behind the scenes.

Chris Miller on what new TSMC US fabs means for Taiwan's silicon shield: 'Even with these new plants, the majority of TSMC’s production will remain onshore. Taiwan’s leaders hope that by investing in the US economy they can keep Trump invested in their security.'

Not sure what else the LA Times was expecting to happen, if they allowed AI to offer "alternative viewpoints" on an article about the KKK, and didn't get a human to vet it first.

Changing map perspectives is often an interesting exercise. Here‘s a map of Taiwan oriented towards the Pacific Ocean, showing it as an island in an ocean of islands (換個角度看台灣, 2004).

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With DeepSeek-R1 making waves around the world, tech companies are rushing to deploy the model. But pro-CCP biases are cropping up stubbornly in systems companies like Perplexity AI claim to have rehabilitated. Others, like Nvidia, aren’t retraining DeepSeek at all.

DeepSeek has been adapted in India to censor criticism of the government. Is the technology a gift to despots everywhere?

DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies are using mock civil service exams and Communist Party ideology to train artificial intelligence – and that could shape how these models talk to the world.