China tech watchers have quickly pointed that Chinese LLMs face an obstacle almost guaranteed to hinder its capability and potential to compete with similar Western products: censorship. But DeepSeek ...

Chang Liu used to write code. Now she throws clay, fashioning understated pieces of teaware and sculptural work that is both ...

Japan-China relations are in a deep freeze that began in November when Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested that Japan could intervene militarily in the event of a Taiwan crisis. Beijing responded ...

Last month, the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia announced that it had resumed broadcasts to audiences in China, after cuts under the Trump administration last year largely forced the outlet to ...

Adrian Zenz is Director and Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, in Washington, D.C. (non-resident). His research focus is on China’s ethnic policy, ...

Jiaoying Summers is a stand-up comic who is packing theaters around the U.S., and last year premiered a one-hour comedy special on Hulu. With three and a half million followers across TikTok, ...

Chris Horton is a Taipei-based journalist and author. Prior to moving to Taiwan in 2015, Horton wrote about China’s economic and social transformation throughout the 2000s, primarily from Kunming and ...

Jessica Batke is a non-resident fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and a Senior Fellow at ChinaFile, where she researches China’s internet censorship system and its wider impacts on ...

Shen Lu is a U.S.-based reporter.

Pascale Massot is an Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is also a non-resident Honorary Fellow for Political Economy at the Asia Society Policy ...

Zha Jianying is a writer, journalist, and cultural commentator in both English and Chinese. She is the author of two books in English, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China (named “ ...

Jessica Batke is a non-resident fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and a Senior Fellow at ChinaFile, where she researches China’s internet censorship system and its wider impacts on ...