China Media Project

Today, June 1, is International Children’s Day, a holiday rooted in the Soviet-era Eastern Bloc and observed since 1950 across communist and non-aligned countries as a celebration — at least nominally — of childhood. But this week also marks the 37th anniversary of the brutal crackdown on large-scale protests for political reform in China. And among the many victims,

When an official news program on state-run Hunan Economic Television took to the air on May 6, the tension between artificiality and authenticity was on full display. As two AI-generated anchors, Sheng Sheng and Shuang Shuang, read out the news, a message appeared in the corner of the screen: “content not [AI] generated” (不生成內容).

The disclaimer in the May 6 broadcas...

In global news today, and certainly in China news, there is just one story topping the headlines — the state visit of Donald Trump to Beijing, the first visit by a US president in nearly 10 years. Is that story splashed across ...

Early last year, as the initial public offering of his company in Zhejiang approached, an executive received a disturbing communication from a financial social media account. It contained a list of damaging claims about his company and invited him to respond to prevent the publication of a damning expose. He reached out to the account, and in the end agreed to pay just over 4...