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TikTok CEO to Visit Washington Amid Privacy Lawsuits, Censorship Fears

7th December 2019

Short video platform TikTok’s enormous popularity among young Westerners, together with its ownership by Beijing-based AI entertainment firm Bytedance, has brought steadily mounting scrutiny in recent months. Critics suggest that the parent company’s susceptibility to Chinese government pressure could bleed...

Chinese Diplomats Take Their “Fighting Spirit” to Twitter, with Mixed Results

7th December 2019

As a new front in Xi Jinping’s propaganda war — an ongoing campaign to “tell China’s story to the world” — diplomats working globally have been urged to take a more aggressive tone in defending their government’s interests in public...

U.S. House Approves Uyghur Act, Condemning China’s Crackdown in Xinjiang

5th December 2019

Following the U.S. Senate’s September passage of the Uyghur Human Rights Act, which some commentators saw as a potential watershed moment in the global stand against the ongoing crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved...

With Election on the Horizon, Taiwan Fights Back Against Beijing’s Influence

4th December 2019

With the presidential election in Taiwan—a de facto independent nation that the CCP regards as a “renegade province”—just over a month away, there have been many recent reports of Beijing’s attempts to influence public opinion and election results in 2020....