Category: China News Updates
Selected and verified China-related news passing the P5 filter.
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原山东省政协委员周春卫公开呼吁结束一党专政，自由中国运动发表欢迎声明
周春卫于2026年9月8日发表公开信，公开反对中共长期垄断国家政治权力。自由中国运动随后表示欢迎她公开与一党专政立场决裂，并主张将其政治立场与任何商业或法律争议分别依据证据审视。
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New Working Paper Tests Whether AI Can Extend the Great Firewall Into Knowledge Production
Free China Movement publishes Working Paper 1.0 on whether AI-era information controls can affect legitimate knowledge search, with a preregistered model-audit framework and explicit falsification criteria.
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From the Great Firewall to the Great Model Firewall: AI, Censored Knowledge, and the Economics of Frontier Innovation in Mainland China — Working Paper 1.0
Working Paper 1.0 examines whether AI-era information restrictions can narrow legitimate knowledge search even in a technically advanced innovation system, and sets out a falsifiable empirical design to test the claim.
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New Working Paper Examines the Great Firewall as a Potential Innovation Tax on Mainland China’s Frontier Economy
A revised scholarly edition of Working Paper 0.5 examines whether information restrictions become more economically consequential as mainland China approaches the technological frontier.
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The Innovation Tax of the Great Firewall: Information Control, Economic Catch-Up, and Mainland China’s Transition to a Frontier Economy — Working Paper 1.0
Working Paper 0.5 examines whether restrictions on legitimate information impose larger marginal costs as mainland China moves from technological catch-up toward frontier knowledge creation.
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Analysis: ZCode Cloud-Upload Dispute Shows Why AI Coding Agents Need Verifiable Data Controls
Analysis of the ZCode repository-upload controversy and why AI coding agents need explicit consent, auditable data scope, retention transparency and independent verification.
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Great Firewall of China: Technical History, Censorship Mechanisms, Cases, Data and Circumvention
A research hub on the Great Firewall of China covering DNS poisoning, TCP resets, TLS interference, IP blocking, active probing, major cases, datasets, historical countermeasures and a reproducible measurement model.
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Zhang Zhan / 张展 — Wuhan Citizen Journalist, Two Prison Terms and Information Control
Canonical profile of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, covering her Wuhan COVID-19 reporting, 2020 four-year sentence, 2024 rearrest and second four-year sentence in 2025.
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Chen Mei / 陈玫 and Cai Wei / 蔡伟 — Terminus 2049 Censorship-Archive Case
Canonical case page for Chen Mei and Cai Wei, founders of Terminus 2049, a project that archived censored Chinese-language online material including COVID-19 reporting.
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Li Zehua / 李泽华 — Wuhan Livestreaming, Disappearance and Supervised-Quarantine Case
Canonical profile of journalist Li Zehua, whose 2020 Wuhan livestreams, disappearance and later account of supervised quarantine illustrate person-level constraints on independent reporting.