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Gen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there

A graphic novel by Melissa Chan and Badiucao imagines China and the US at war in 2035. They hope to remind young people that ‘authoritarianism everywhere is bad’

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We highlight a great visual primer on a disease the WHO has declared a public health emergency

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Exhibition by Chinese dissident artist opens in Warsaw despite pressure from China

An exhibition by a provocative Chinese artist that criticizes the country's human rights record is opening at a Polish state-run contemporary art museum despite pressure from the Chinese embassy to cancel it

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Victorian Liberals to meet on senator’s future; Stoker says she’s ‘fine’ – as it happened

Urgent meeting called for this weekend after allegations raised against the senator in parliament. This blog is now closed

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Morning Mail: new sexual harassment claim in parliament, hundreds missing in Greek shipwreck, Messi sees off Socceroos

David Van dumped from Liberal party room after fresh accusation about his behaviour, while Europe braces for one of its worst migrant disasters

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‘Chinese agents could be following me’, says Australian artist at centre of censorship row

Australian consular officials will attend the opening of Badiucao’s show in Poland after Chinese ambassador demanded it be closed down

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Australian embassy contacts dissident artist in Poland

The Australian embassy in Poland says it has offered support to a Chinese-Australian artist in Warsaw, as Chinese diplomats attempt to shut down his exhibition.

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Artist calls for Aust help as China tries to stop show

A Chinese-Australian artist says the Australian government should do more to help him, as Chinese diplomats attempt to shut down his latest exhibition.

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Reuters reporters' online accounts faked to approach China activists

Two Reuters journalists had their identities faked by an unknown person or people who then used sham social media accounts to engage with Chinese activists on several online platforms over several months.

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'A Pretty Scary Moment': Dissident Chinese Students Say George Washington University Is Failing Them

The CCP’s tyranny extends even to U.S. college campuses, where Chinese and Taiwanese students fear censorship.

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How will Elon Musk juggle running Twitter with his interests in China?

Critics of the Chinese government are worried that Beijing will use Elon Musk's interests in China as leverage to have their voices silenced on Twitter.

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2022: the year even right-leaning cartoonists had a gutful of Scott Morrison

Although it isn’t mentioned anywhere on the cover of Russ Radcliffe’s latest offering, 2022 is the 20th anniversary of Best Australian Political Cartoons. That’s right – for anyone who has been collecting the books since they began in 2003, a whole shelf of plain blue, red, purple, green and gold…

The Conversation

'Tape or chewing gum:' Twitter's lapses echo worldwide

Twitter at its best is a tool to get a message out quickly, efficiently and directly, whether you're an activist or a local fire department

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Chinese dissident artist shows support for Ukraine in new work

The Chinese dissident artist known as Badiucao shows his support for Ukraine in new work that has gone on show in Prague, while also taking aim at the leaders of Russia and China.

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‘Sydney Daddy’: why the Chinese-language YouTube shock jock wears a mask in public

Edgar Lu’s talk-back YouTube show is popular worldwide amongst the Chinese diaspora but he has critics, in China and closer to home

Al Jazeera

Chinese exiles: Boycott Winter Olympics over Uighur ‘genocide’

Dissidents join rights groups in warning against any effort by Beijing to use Games as ‘sports-washing opportunity’.

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