The future of TikTok is mired in uncertainty in the United States after the House of Representatives passed a bill last week which could ultimately lead to the wildly popular video app being banned.| CNN
The results are in: what were the most “positive” articles, pictures, and videos in China over the past year? “Positive energy” (正能量) has been a priority for Chinese media for years, but the 550 pieces showcased from 2022 highlight their current top priority and reveal how “positive energy” isn’t always positive.| China Media Project
Buckle your seatbelts for an extended tour this year through the official discourse of power and succession. 2022 has hardly begun, but for the propaganda ministers of the CCP there can be no doubt that the year’s biggest news story – the Beijing Winter Olympics notwithstanding – will be unfolding more than 10 months from now.| China Media Project
A confession delivered on WeChat by the founder and CEO of the tech company ByteDance offers a glimpse into how beholden companies in China are today to the demands of the leadership.| China Media Project
When it comes to intensifying controls on online content, the people have once again spoken. Or so claims China’s broadcast regulator in an action announced earlier this week, demanding that two of the country’s most popular media platforms, live-streaming app Kuaishou (快手) and Jinri Toutiao (今日头条), a news aggregator, put a freeze on video uploading […]| China Media Project
An important phrase used actively by the Chinese Communist Party since 2022 and leading through to Xi Jinping’s unprecedented third term, “era-ization” serves to reinforce Xi’s power by defining him as a crucial modernizer of Marxism for the current era.| China Media Project
To understand what's happening with TikTok means understanding that there’s not a clear line between the state and society in China.| Detroit Free Press
The House has voted overwhelmingly to ban TikTok if its Chinese owners don't sell it. So now the future of the wildly popular social media platform is in the hands of the Senate.| NPR
The "core socialist values" suddenly appearing on a wall in London might have sounded familiar to locals. But the line drawn by China's leadership is clear: "universal values" are Western and "core socialist values" are Chinese — and never the twain shall meet.| China Media Project