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China Media Bulletin

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Everything you need to know about China's changing media freedom landscape

CHINA MEDIA BULLETIN | PAST ISSUES | RESOURCES | POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS

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The monthly China Media Bulletin provides unique insight on censorship, media freedom, and internet freedom issues related to the People's Republic of China, drawing on both English and Chinese-language sources. The China Media Bulletin is available on the Freedom House website as HTML web pages, PDF downloads, and via email newsletter, which features the following sections: 

  • Featured analysis of a major development or trend

  • Short news updates on the media, netizen activism, and legal changes

  • Spotlight on popular censored images

  • Section tracking the Chinese government’s growing media influence around the world

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RECENT ISSUES

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2021 Censorship Predictions, Facial Recognition Pushback, Hong Kong Media Arrests (December 2020)

  • Analysis: Five Predictions for Beijing’s Assault on Internet Freedom in 2021
  • In the News:
    • Censorship updates: Journalist accreditation, film cancellation, live-streaming controls, tech-sector regulation
    • Surveillance updates: Tech firm complicity, coronavirus QR code, facial recognition in real estate
    • Harsh punishments for outspoken entrepreneurs, Twitter users, Wuhan citizen journalist
    • Hong Kong: Attacks on Media Worsen with Journalist Arrests, Banned Protest
    • Beyond China: Beijing’s media influence sparks censorship, debate, and response measures at WHO, Vatican, Australia, United Kingdom, India, and Taiwan
  • Featured Pushback: Concerns over Facial Recognition Gain Traction
  • What to Watch For
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Special Reports on China

A newspaper consumer reads a copy of the Africa edition of Beijing’s state-run China Daily newspaper in front of a newsstand in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo Credit: TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images.

Beijing's Global Megaphone

The Expansion of Chinese Communist Party Media Influence Since 2017

Chinese soldiers amass outside of Labrang Monastery in Gansu Province to prevent protests during Losar, the Tibetan lunar New Year festival, in February 2016 (Christophe Boisvieux/Getty Images)

The Battle for China’s Spirit

Religious Revival, Repression, and Resistance under Xi Jinping

Protesters calling for press freedom outside the offices of the Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangdong Province. January 2013 (Photo by Jonah M. Kessel)

The Politburo's Predicament

Confronting the Limitations of Chinese Communist Party Repression

More Freedom House Analysis on China

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The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship

How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World

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Recommendation's on China's Global Media Influence

The following recommendations for policymakers in democratic nations could help counter the negative impact of Beijing’s foreign media influence campaigns.

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Freedom on the Net 2019 — China Country Report

Conditions for internet users in China continued to deteriorate, confirming the country’s status as the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom for the fourth consecutive year.

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About the Editor

The China Media Bulletin is directed by Sarah Cook, Freedom House Senior Research Analyst for East Asia, who authors each issue’s featured article and manages the editorial team producing the bulletin. Cook is also the author of several country reports for Freedom House’s annual publications, as well as several special reports about China, most recently: Beijing's Global Megaphone, The Battle for China’s Spirit, The Politburo’s Predicament. Her comments and writings have appeared on CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Follow her on Twitter @Sarah_G_Cook. For interview requests, please email [email protected]. 

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