China 2025: Intensified Information Control, Security Governance, and Expanding Transnational Reach
Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2026 chapter portrays 2025 as a year of tightened ideological control in China, with extensive censorship, surveillance, and legal pressure on critics, religious communities, and rights defenders. The report also highlights alleged spillover effects abroad, including technology diffusion and pressure on cultural and political expression outside China.