Last week, after Hong Kong’s security chief renewed attacks on the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), a group of pro-government media outlets became force multipliers. Check out our latest feature on our website! lingua-sinica.org/lining-up-th...

Lingua Sinica spoke with Adina Masalbekova, a researcher on China’s engagement with the region, about how Chinese state media have gained a foothold in Kyrgyzstan — and how Russia’s parallel media strategy reinforces many of the same messages. lingua-sinica.org/watching-chi...

(1/3) When China Daily released a video depicting the Philippines as a frightened monkey, shoved onto a stage by giant hands holding US and Japanese flags, Manila protested fiercely, calling it racist and demeaning.

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The latest feature, written by Xiao Bing, from our colleagues doing great work over at Tian Jian (田間). linguasinica.substack.com/p/chinas-inv...

1/3 Chinese drama "Summer Rose" hit 3 billion views in 8 days. Beautiful cinematography, symbolic imagery, and a gentle male lead who seems to be the ideal partner to ask for. Sounds progressive, right?

A media loss for Macau, fake China protest videos, and brevity for the battlefield — the latest edition of the Lingua Sinica newsletter is out. Read it here: linguasinica.substack.com/p/a-media-lo...

Beijing Frames the Trump Visit: Two commentaries in yesterday’s People’s Daily — and a media event earlier this month in South Korea — reveal China’s systematic approach to shaping elite opinion ahead of the events like the Xi-Trump meeting in Seoul. chinamediaproject.org/2025/10/28/b...

Our Chinese-language sister publication Tian Jian (田間), specializing in reporting on issues related to global Chinese-language media, just went live with their website. Check it out here: tian-jian.org

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1/3 The focus today at the Global Leaders' Meeting in Beijing was supposed to be women. But Xi Jinping and the Party were the real focus. What has actually changed for Chinese feminists since 1995? Read on.

This one comes with a nice interactive pulldown table of (partial) pen names used in the CCP's official People's Daily. We aim to serve!

New to the CMP Dictionary: Emblazoned as the motto of the Central Party School and the namesake of China’s top theoretical journal, “seeking truth from facts” (实事求是) is one of the party’s most important guiding theoretical principles. Jordyn Haime breaks it down. bit.ly/48St7PK

2/3 A key partner in this initiative is Scooper News, a mobile app launched in 2019 by Chinese smartphone giant Transsion Holdings. Never heard of it? Well, Scooper adds local info to Chinese state media content, pushing Beijing’s narratives to Africa. And it has at least 50 million users!

This month's Intersections newsletter is out! We look at harassment allegations in Taiwan's entertainment industry, a controversial campus birth in China that sparked national debate, and Hong Kong's rejection of same-sex marriage recognition. Read here: linguasinica.substack.com/p/power-hara...

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Why is UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming addressing this forum when its framing is clearly explicitly anti-journalism and counter to UN values — not to mention explicitly anti-US in rhetoric? The UN entity profile: 2/4 lingua-sinica.org/dispatch/uni...

At our Lingua Sinica website we are mapping participants in this month's 2025 Global South Media and Think Tank Forum, held in Kunming, the capital of China's southwestern Yunnan province. Some thoughts. 1/4 lingua-sinica.org/dispatch/yun...

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You can really see this at work in today's paper. Look at the headlines here for foreign visitors. Why not one story about lots of visiting leaders? Repetition as signaling. 2/2

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Another AI-generated front page in Guangzhou's Southern Metropolis Daily today — a paper known for its striking photography. epaper.oeeee.com/epaper/A/htm...

One of China’s most celebrated metro commercial newspapers embraces artificial intelligence for front-page design, signaling deeper digital disruption in a newspaper industry facing tough times. chinamediaproject.org/2025/04/18/a...

The inside article is a full two-page story, including an interview with JFK historian Farris Rookstool.