Alex Colville

That's quite the headline.

Visualizing Power in China's Press - China Media Project Despite speculation about Xi Jinping's political troubles, our latest analysis reveals his continued dominance in Chinese state media, overshadowing all known potential rivals.

Visualizing Power in China’s Press: Despite speculation about Xi Jinping’s political troubles, our latest analysis reveals his continued dominance in Chinese state media, overshadowing all known potential rivals. chinamediaproject.org/2025/07/10/v...

thanks!

Hey Matt, you got a link for this?

DeepSeek’s Democratic Deficit - China Media Project Governments and companies are underestimating the power of the high-performing AI model as a propaganda tool.

DeepSeek’s Democratic Deficit: Governments and companies are underestimating the power of the high-performing AI model as a propaganda tool.
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A Trump Card for China’s Media - China Media Project The authoritarian actions of the Trump administration have added jet fuel to one of the Chinese Communist Party's most enduring external propaganda frames — that the United States is fundamentally hyp...

The authoritarian actions of the Trump administration have added jet fuel to one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most enduring external propaganda frames — that the United States is fundamentally hypocritical when it comes to rights and freedoms.

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HK’s Environment Protection Dep’t says the wastewater will be too diluted by the time it hits HK to cause damage, so that is reassuring.

But if you followed all the official hysteria and state media fear-mongering around the release of treated wastewater from Fukushima, it is also extremely ironic.

This man sounds like he is from mainland China. In the video, he is crying "help" in Chinese (“救命“). I'm so heartbroken for immigrants from China and around the world who are experiencing this. (Then one naturally wonders, "am I the next, with my strange name and my accent?")

China’s Global AI Firewall - China Media Project DeepSeek's latest model is its most restricted yet, particularly for users making politically sensitive queries in Chinese. Is a global split opening in AI?

DeepSeek's latest model is its most restricted yet, particularly for users making politically sensitive queries in Chinese.

The company's success has likely invited more concerted government involvement. That could set the tone for any other Chinese LLMs that become as famous as they have.

Xi Jinping's daughter, Xi Mingze (習明澤), joined a private dinner with Lukashenko on June 8, her first-ever appearance at a dinner with a foreign leader, according to Belarus state media.

The world is upside down. Harvard students interviewed on campus about the international student ban by *Chinese state media journalists*, request anonymity "for fear of retaliation from the US government."

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Taiwan's Yilan Creole: Revitalizing the only Japanese-based creole language in the world Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonizat...

Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonization (1895–1945).

Good piece by @colvap.bsky.social. More here on government departments’ questionable claims of game-changing AI deployments, and the political performance they’re part of:

Concerning CEO opinions read like a "poor china takes" bingo card.

If you’re going to get upset with someone, at least explain why.

Otherwise there’s only two possibilities:

1. You can’t
2. You can but won’t

Oh. And angrily restating your opinion isn’t an argument.

Anyone seeking to pad their resumé should check out Michael Kovrig's LinkedIn, 2018-2021. What a way to turn an awful situation on its head.

4月15日凌晨，四川成都
某高架桥上被人悬挂横幅
“没有政治体制改革就没有民族复兴”
“人民不需要一个权力不受制约的政党”
“中国不需要谁指明方向，民主才是方向”

Spent all week looking for the perfect China tariff meme. Finally found it

I know a lot of people are scared at the moment, but the populism and tribalism gripping the US right now are pretty universal trends, that could happen in any country at any time. Comparisons should stay local. Is there no part of US history we can compare this moment to, rather than China's?

Brexit Is a Cultural Revolution Why Boris Johnson’s deal is acceptable, but Theresa May’s was not

I remember some comparing Brexit to the Cultural Revolution back in 2016 - people were scared of a sudden, unprecedented surge of irrational populism threatening to sweep away the world as they knew it. So they desperately grasped for comparisons to make sense of it.

America’s Cultural Revolution - The Wire China President Trump is seeking a fundamental break from historical norms in a way that bears comparison with the decade of turmoil Mao Zedong instigated in China, albeit in a much less violent way.

These sorts of comparisons are still too sensational. As long as citizens in small-town America aren't being beaten to death in show trials for being "anti-MAGA", and news editors aren't jumping to their deaths for criticizing Trump, the US is NOT doing its own version of the "Cultural Revolution."

I love where OpenAI goes with its test prompts

China’s AI Content Dragnet - China Media Project Hundreds of gigabytes of data from an unsecured server expose how China is using artificial intelligence to automate the surveillance of online discourse, with a sophisticated classification system pr...

Hundreds of gigabytes of data from an unsecured server expose how China is using artificial intelligence to automate the surveillance of online discourse, with a sophisticated classification system prioritizing military, social, and political content.
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Slightly worrying…

A tweet by Sen John Cornyn recommending Trump's "The Art of the Deal", showing a picture of him reading it avidly.

Party leadership steadfastly adheres to Andrew Jackson's Conception of Judicial Irrelevance, Reaganomics Theory, the Silicon Valley Outlook on Development, Moving Fast and Breaking Things, and Donald Trump Thought on the Art of the Deal in the New Era, to preserve the Party with Trump as its core.

AI search summaries cannibalise academic publishers’ web traffic Rise of robot-written summaries should push publishers to articulate value and impact of research more clearly, argues Oxford University Press director

The launch of Google’s AI-powered search summaries has led to a 19% drop in click-through to academic reference services according to OUP product strategy director John Campbell: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-sear...

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An outrageous injustice to ordinary Chinese people, and would shut the US off from a large talent supply. Is there really no other way to root out spies than banning an entire population?

I don’t think you should be able to revoke a degree for anything other than fraud in obtaining the degree itself. It’s a qualification, not an honor.