The Locknet: How China Controls its Internet

In this episode of Pekingology, CSIS Senior Fellow Henrietta Levin is joined by Jessica Batke, Senior Editor for Investigations at ChinaFile, and Laura Edelson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University. They discuss Jessica and Laura's new report "The Locknet: How China Controls Its Internet and Why It Matters," exploring how the government and internet platforms collaborate on censorship, how tensions between the CCP's political and economic goals play out online, and how Chinese censorship is changing the internet outside China.

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The Locknet: How China Controls its Internet is an episode from Pekingology by Center for Strategic and International Studies.

This episode is 34:59 long.

This episode was published on Aug 7, 2025.

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