# China’s AI plot to ‘rewrite history’ and threaten Western democracy exposed

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/chinas-ai-plot-to-rewrite-history-and-threaten-western-democracy-exposed/
- Published: 2026-11-08T19:01:39+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-08T19:23:28+00:00
- Original publisher: GB News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/chinas-ai-plot-rewrite-history
- Topics: AI, Asia, Technology, UK, World

## Key points

- Hall says Qwen3 denied the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
- The model later diverted related questions to other subjects.
- Qwen3 is being used by the Ministry of Justice to analyse criminal records.

## Summary

Jonathan Hall, the departing independent reviewer of terrorism and state threats legislation, says China’s AI systems could threaten Western democracy by censoring politically sensitive information and distorting historical events. His test of Alibaba’s Qwen3 model found it denied that anything notable happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989, prompting concerns about the spread of state-approved accounts of history.

Hall said Qwen3’s reasoning appeared to recognise the People’s Liberation Army’s deployment before omitting it from its answer; when challenged, it retracted its claim, then later diverted Tiananmen questions to unrelated topics. The article says Chinese AI systems also restrict discussion of Taiwan, Uyghurs and dissidents, and notes that Qwen3 can run offline and is free to use. The Ministry of Justice has deployed it to analyse criminal records, the first confirmed use of Chinese AI within Whitehall.

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