Reference to Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (Ài Wèiwei 艾未未). The use of this code lead to the phrase "love the future" being blocked from Weibo search results around June-August 2011.

This Communist Party slogan was heavily used during the Cultural Revolution, an era in which citizens were incentivized to spy on and even falsely accuse family and neighbors of being disloyal to ...

China’s trade volume with partner countries in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) grew by 6.4 percent year-on-year, accounting for over half of China’s total trade volume for the first time. At the ...

Ai Xiaoming is a documentary filmmaker, author, and women's rights activist. Ai has frequently collaborated with documentary filmmaker Hu Jie. She is professor emerita of literature and women'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 ...

Chai Jing is the impassioned journalist known for her viral self-funded documentary on air pollution, "Under the Dome" (Qióngdǐng zhīxià 穹顶之下). Co-released online in February 2015 by ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi concluded a week-long trip to Namibia, the Republic of Congo, Chad, and Nigeria, as part of a 35-year tradition of China’s foreign minister visiting Africa at the ...

The high-profile kidnapping and rescue of 31-year-old actor Wang Xing from a telecom-scam compound on the border of Myanmar and Thailand has incited heated discussion on the Chinese internet. Wang was ...

As we enter 2025, Chinese media outlets have continued the tradition of publishing op-ed pieces that pay tribute to the past year. But this year’s outpouring of vague and even confusing New Year’s ...

At Sinopsis, Rachel Lee examines CCP influence operations in Malaysia’s eastern state of Sabah, which have sought to capitalize on the local influence of diasporic Chinese in business, politics, and ...