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Author: BY JOHN HERRMAN - Publish Date: October 8, 2021 at 12:57AM Next week, in a thoroughly modern blurring of reality and fiction, William Shatner will soar to space with Blue Origin. Do you care?

Author: BY PAUL MOZUR AND ZIA UR-REHMAN - Publish Date: August 21, 2021 at 12:15AM In the 1990s, they banned the internet. Now they use it to threaten and cajole the Afghan people, in a sign of how they might use technology to build power.

Author: BY CHRIS BUCKLEY - Publish Date: July 26, 2021 at 03:23AM In a two-volume tome, the independent historian Yu Ruxin explains the crucial role of the military in Mao’s stormy Cultural Revolution.

Author: BY JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ - Publish Date: December 6, 2020 at 05:00PM To push the idea that the virus didn’t come from China, the government has misrepresented experts’ remarks and given dubious theories the veneer of science.

Author: BY CHARLIE WARZEL - Publish Date: October 31, 2020 at 07:51AM The social media company’s head of cybersecurity policy on “perception hacks” and what it will take to have an authentic election.

Author: BY KARA SWISHER - Publish Date: September 16, 2020 at 07:01AM Forcing the unspooling of a complex global company is not as easy as yelling about the “China menace.”

Author: BY IVAN KRASTEV - Publish Date: September 8, 2020 at 12:00PM From Trump to Lukashenko, authoritarians are discovering that this isn’t their kind of crisis.

Author: BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Publish Date: June 17, 2020 at 07:03AM Over 280 million people a week depend on the V.O.A. for news. Its independence is why it is so trusted.

Author: BY JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ - Publish Date: November 1, 2019 at 02:00PM In a throwback to the Mao era, China is deploying students as watchdogs against teachers. It’s part of a campaign by President Xi to eliminate dissent.

Author: BY LI YUAN - Publish Date: October 5, 2019 at 02:00PM Leveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotism among the youth.

Author: BY DAVEY ALBA AND ADAM SATARIANO - Publish Date: September 26, 2019 at 11:01AM Governments are using “cyber troops” to discredit political opponents, bury opposing views and interfere in foreign affairs, according to Oxford researchers.

Author: BY NICHOLAS KRISTOF - Publish Date: August 31, 2019 at 09:31AM ‘If we die, well, we were going to die anyway.’

Author: JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ - Publish Date: July 31, 2019 at 07:00AM Hu Xijin, editor of the Global Times, is a combative public voice for Xi Jinping’s government at a time of open rivalry with the United States.

Author: LI YUAN - Publish Date: July 1, 2019 at 07:00AM It goes beyond propaganda. Even some Western-educated professionals say residents foolishly value individuals’ rights over economic prosperity.

Author: RUSSELL GOLDMAN - Publish Date: June 21, 2019 at 07:00AM China’s leader made a rare visit to North Korea this week, a two-day trip full of pomp and propaganda.

Author: AMY QIN - Publish Date: May 29, 2019 at 07:00AM Experts say the debate between Trish Regan and Liu Xin will help a Communist Party-controlled television network raise its profile in America, where it has struggled to gain a foothold.

Author: CHARLIE WARZEL - Publish Date: May 26, 2019 at 07:00AM Social media is working as designed. That’s the problem.

Author: JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ - Publish Date: April 7, 2019 at 07:00AM Millions of Chinese are using the app as part of President Xi’s efforts to strengthen ideological control in the digital age. Critics say it fuels a personality cult.

Author: PAUL MOZUR - Publish Date: March 8, 2019 at 07:00AM Pressed to explain its connections to Beijing, the American arm of China’s state broadcaster claimed independence. Now, key employees have been recalled to China.