Sensitive Words and Censored Content Related to the Recent Sino-American Summit (opens in new tab)

During the recent back-to-back Sino-American and Sino-Russian summits, there was a fair amount of online censorship of sensitive-word combinations, much of it “soft censorship” aimed at controlling online discourse by limiting search results to Chinese government websites and state-media outlets. This, and a lack of substantive breakthroughs during the Xi-Trump summit in particular, meant that […]