State money covers up China’s economic calamity
Behind the figures lies a ‘different picture – financing efficiency that would hardly exist without it’
Communist Party of China
China locked in AI mind games with the United States
But President Trump appears more interested in pushing ‘tariffs’ and fighting ‘woke wars’
TikTok ‘deal’ fails to ease US-China trade war fears
‘The goal was to break the deadlock’ in economic relations,’ but again there was no ‘breakthrough’
Political prisoners suffer ‘physical and sexual violence’
Prisons have become a hidden front in Hong Kong’s broader assault on civil liberties, report revealed
40 million low-paid workers power China’s smart factories
They earn slightly more than US$3 a day feeding the country’s enormous export machine
Battle lines drawn in China’s World War II narrative
Taiwan is outraged by Beijing’s portrayal of the Communist Party as the victors over Japan
Xi’s warning to Trump in the march of the autocrats
China’s president issues a blunt message about ‘Cold War mentality’ to his gang of deplorables
US-China crypto rivalry rests on a flip of a coin
Dollar stablecoins are not just economically disruptive – they are a threat to Beijing’s monetary policy
Supreme warlord Xi simply does not trust the PLA
His fixation with the high command shows a lack of confidence in its ability to take on US forces
Defense of the realm and the battle for rare earths
Minerals needed to drive the technological revolution in the US and Europe are controlled by China