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When chatbots become ‘answer engines’: AI, geopolitics and truth
As AI chatbots become everyday sources of information, research from Kosovo raises questions about how these systems present and sometimes distort geopolitical narratives.
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View allWhen chatbots become ‘answer engines’: AI, geopolitics and truthGlobal Voices » China · 2026-10-30 19:30 UTCHong Kong police launch AI-powered national security platform for school pupilsGlobal Voices » China · 2026-10-16 05:03 UTCHow authoritarian states are building an international market for digital surveillanceGlobal Voices » China · 2026-10-15 04:00 UTCSubsea cables and oil pipelines: The infrastructure linking AI, empire, and occupationGlobal Voices » China · 2026-10-09 06:15 UTCAlibaba sues Pentagon to denounce being classified as a Chinese military affiliateGlobal Voices » China · 2026-10-08 18:31 UTCWest-to-east energy, east-to-west computing: The Uyghur costs of China’s digital orderGlobal Voices » China · 2026-10-01 07:34 UTC
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View allWhen chatbots become ‘answer engines’: AI, geopolitics and truthGlobal Voices » China · 2026-10-30 19:30 UTCWarning Signals: Venezuela and the Risk of AI-Powered Chinese Digital AuthoritarianismGlobal Voices » China · 2026-10-27 21:10 UTCHong Kong police launch AI-powered national security platform for school pupilsGlobal Voices » China · 2026-10-16 05:03 UTCSubsea cables and oil pipelines: The infrastructure linking AI, empire, and occupationGlobal Voices » China · 2026-10-09 06:15 UTCHow AI is upgrading African dictatorshipGlobal Voices » China · 2026-05-22 08:00 UTCThe Chinese lesson on the human rights approach to AIGlobal Voices » China · 2026-04-30 18:01 UTC
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Warning Signals: Venezuela and the Risk of AI-Powered Chinese Digital Authoritarianism
A report by the Australian think tank ASPI warns that Venezuela could integrate Chinese artificial intelligence into its surveillance system and expand its digital control capabilities.
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Hong Kong police launch AI-powered national security platform for school pupils
The tech allows students to generate personalized stories on China’s “holistic approach to national security” – a framework advocated by President Xi Jinping covering areas from politics and economy to ecology and technology.
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How authoritarian states are building an international market for digital surveillance
Digital authoritarianism is not developing in isolation, but through the international exchange of technologies, standards, and practices.
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Subsea cables and oil pipelines: The infrastructure linking AI, empire, and occupation
The growing importance of subsea cables in military and economic policy offers an entrypoint into understanding the corrosive, yet dependent, relationship between AI and oil infrastructure
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Alibaba sues Pentagon to denounce being classified as a Chinese military affiliate
DoD’s public document describes Alibaba as indirectly affiliated with China State Council's supervision body, and a “military-civil fusion contributor to the Chinese defense industrial base”.
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West-to-east energy, east-to-west computing: The Uyghur costs of China’s digital order
Beijing is carrying an older geography of extraction into the AI era, turning Uyghur land, energy and labour into computing power while remaining silent about coercion and surveillance.
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Who is responsible for protecting and preserving Indigenous cultures?
As I read through the pieces Global Voices’ authors contributed to the August 2026 Spotlight series, “Indigenous Rights,” one common question stands out for me: Who gets to decide?
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China’s fertility crisis is evidence of its modernization success
China’s only daughters were raised to pursue education, independence and opportunity. Now, those same qualities are increasingly seen as obstacles to marriage and motherhood.
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China’s new cotton law deepens control over Uyghur farmers’ land and labor
The official documents China's new cotton-quality regulation show how cotton production is being integrated into a system of land transfer, labor mobilisation, political instruction, and digital surveillance.
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When Chinese parents outsource control over their adult children
China's rebranded “internet addiction” industry now helps families confine legally independent adult children, exposing how parental coercion survives through private institutions and weak enforcement.
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The fake parenting expert Chinese daughters invented to talk to their parents
A fictional parenting expert became a viral sensation after giving Chinese daughters a voice their parents were more willing to hear.
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I learned the feeling of statelessness in my Uyghur homeland
Feelings of statelessness happen when a people’s language, their culture, their memories, and future no longer have an equal place in the land they call home.
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Beyond the binary: Global traditions of gender fluidity
In this collaborative article, Global Voices dives into non-binary gender representation traditions from around the world, spanning China, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and more.
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Hong Kong’s LGBTQ+ communities struggle to survive amid shrinking civic spaces
Global Voices conducted a face-to-face interview with a local LGBTQ+ activist, Peregrine (a pseudonym), who discussed the challenges they faced, their survival strategies, and their hopes for the future.