Just as Hong Kong's 90-year-old Cardinal Zen was held guilty over a pro-democracy support fund, protests flared in China in open defiance against Xi Jinping.
Putin and Xi pick International Democracy Day for a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as the UN raises an alarm on growing threats to democracy.
Security tight, Chinese leader Xi Jinping went to Hong Kong to inaugurate a hardline chief executive. Activists say Chinese rule is becoming more totalitarian.
Giving Beijing direct channels of influence over the content, tone, and preferences, Africa is the test bed for Chinese propaganda across the continent.
Zheng Qiang (not his real name) was being pressured by a mainland state agent to spy on his colleagues at the pro-democracy Apply Daily. He quit...
Apple Daily, known for its critical coverage of China, sold a staggering 1 million copies of its final edition, symbolizing Hong Kong’s lost freedom.
Japan is the only major country in which top elected leaders regularly give press conferences twice a day. It’s time for the media to focus on...
China’s human rights violations and nuclear threat bring back memories of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that sparked the 1980 Moscow...
Many journalists are asking why is the press restricted, even after the 14-day quarantine period?
It may be natural for an authoritarian regime to cover up an inconvenient truth. For the reason of a column headline, China has expelled three...
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