Chinese chatbots may be censored by the state, according to a study published in PNAS Nexus. China has a robust program of censorship and all China-originating LLMs must be approved by the Chinese ...

The AI industry is abuzz with chatter about a new large language model that is taking the fight to the industry’s top dogs like OpenAI and Anthropic. But not without its generous share of surprises.

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. I spent many years working inside Chinese media, both state-owned and private, and I find that many people outside the country misunderstand a key part of ...

China’s ruling Communist Party is using artificial intelligence to turbocharge the surveillance and control of its 1.4 billion citizens, with the technology reaching further into daily life, ...

He has been jailed, tracked and threatened by China’s government. What was it like pay a visit home? As he publishes a polemic about surveillance and state control, the artist relives a momentous trip ...

Many people outside China are getting their first taste of Chinese censorship, as the country’s tech services explode in popularity worldwide. The buzz around DeepSeek has been so intense that it’s ...

Pending a Supreme Court ruling, the U.S. government’s crackdown on TikTok might end the app’s availability in U.S. app stores this weekend. The looming ban has prompted American users to seek a new ...

As 2025 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding ...

Autocratic regimes are using internet blackouts to install sophisticated firewalls and imported surveillance ...