China Conducts Military Drills as Tensions Rise with Taiwan and the US
China wants the world to know they’re still determined to annex Taiwan. The People’s Liberation Army enacted a series of military drills circling the small island nation April 8-10. The exercises were in response to a California meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen and the United States Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy. The operation, […]
Japan Joins the US in Restricting Sales of Chipmaking Equipment to China
The Japanese government announced on March 31 that it will be restricting exports of chip manufacturing equipment to China. This news comes in the wake of a series of regulations passed in the United States and the Netherlands, aimed at stunting China’s development of semiconductors, which power everything from laptops and smartphones to military technology. […]
China Exports Mass AI Surveillance Tech to the Middle East
The AI (Artificial Intelligence) revolution is here, and it is changing everything from the way we write to the way we interact with technology. But not all change is good. In 2015, the Chinese government launched the five-year Sharp Eyes initiative, vowing to build the world’s largest mass surveillance network. They have since installed more […]
Credit Suisse Executive Established a Pro-Beijing Political Party in Hong Kong
Credit Suisse is no more. On March 19, 2023, after a slump in shares and bonds, it was announced that the 167-year-old Swiss bank would be sold to its competitor UBS. Many blamed Credit Suisse’s collapse on a loss of investor confidence due the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in the […]
The Ruins of Paradise on Earth
Over the course of two days in October 1860, around 5,000 British and French soldiers took part in what has been described as the greatest act of cultural vandalism in modern Chinese history — the pillaging and destroying of The Old Summer Palace near Beijing. More accurately, the site was known for its garden, or […]
The Garden of Perfect Brightness, part 1
The 3 Great Qing Emperors The Qing emperors (1644 to 1911) formed the last of the successive dynasties of China. As “alien” rulers, the Manchus inherited and adopted the cultural norms and political institutions of the previous Han Chinese Ming dynasty (1368 to 1644), at the same time maintaining their own Northeast Asian military organization, […]
How SVB Aided Chinese Communist Party in Its Tech Invasion
The March 10 collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) sent shockwaves throughout the American economic system, causing stock prices to plummet. The pain, felt throughout the rest of the world, was noticeable in China, where SVB has devoted a considerable amount of resources to fuel China’s technology growth for several decades. Across the Pacific, […]
China’s Daring Espionage Activities In The United States Exposed
A high-ranking spy official spills China’s infiltration ploy over the past years within the United States. In a shocking series of events, the U.S. government has uncovered China’s plot employed to penetrate their society. In February, a Chinese spy balloon was found drifting through Southern California airspace before being shot down by a fighter jet. […]
China: Separation of 1 Million Tibetan Children from Families and Forced Assimilation at Residential Schools
Around a million children of the Tibetan minority were being affected by Chinese government policies aimed at assimilating Tibetan people culturally, religiously and linguistically through a residential school system, UN experts* warned today. “We are very disturbed that in recent years the residential school system for Tibetan children appears to act as a mandatory large-scale […]