Freedom House's annual report says global internet freedom has declined for the 16th consecutive year, with China and Myanmar continuing to rank among the worst countries for internet freedom in the world.
Freedom House released a report titled "The CCP Is Trying—and Failing—to Extinguish Defiance among Chinese Citizens." The report notes that despite the CCP's continued suppression of dissent, the spirit of defiance among Chinese citizens has not been entirely extinguished.
On July 16, 2026, Freedom House's China Dissent Monitor project released a report showing that, affected by internet censorship and the Qinglang campaign, publicly recorded social protest incidents in China fell to 846 in the second quarter, a year-on-year decline of 45%.
Data from Freedom House's database shows that between 2014 and 2024, a total of 1,219 incidents of physical transnational repression occurred worldwide, of which the Chinese Communist Party was responsible for 272, accounting for 22%.