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A rolling chronicle of businesses, filmmakers, athletes, and institutions in liberal societies that bow to censorship, or even preemptively self-censor, for illiberal authorities like China’s.
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Michael Bloomberg Apologized After Boris Johnson Called China A "Coercive Autocracy."
Should the chair of President Biden's Defense Innovation Board be appeasing the Chinese government?
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International LGBTIQ+ Organization Forced The Cancellation of A Global Pride Event in Taiwan
WorldPride Taiwan 2025 was cancelled because the organizers refused to drop "Taiwan" from the name of the event.
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Chinese Institutes Across UK Threaten Academic Freedom
“By replicating China’s legal regime which restricts speech, Confucius Institutes have in fact successfully imported a regime of censorship onto British…
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Taiwan's Not A Country When You're Hungry
Snickers accidentally wades into geopolitics with a new ad campaign.
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NYU-Shanghai Chancellor Appears in Chinese Propaganda Video Downplaying Lockdown Severity
Meanwhile, an NYU Chinese studies professor alleged in a recent email to faculty that students were committing suicide.
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Warner Bros. Censors References to Gay Relationship in Fantastic Beasts’ China Release
The WB talks a big game about "safeguarding the integrity" of art and promoting "stories that represent the LGBTQ+ experience" . . . except in China.
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UK Publishers Censor Books Intended for Western Readers to Appease China
Publishers have removed references to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet.
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