New report maps 1,200+ Chinese liaison points still used for diaspora surveillance, including in Canada.
China’s “green halo” and the coal that powers it
China’s cultivated image as a renewable-energy leader masks its heavy, ongoing reliance on coal—which powers both its industrial base and the solar, wind, and EV hardware it exports to the West.
China’s Canadian gateway to America
Sam Cooper lays out why U.S. officials have treated British Columbia as a major CCP concern since at least 2017.
Carney lists Pacific Link pipeline as national interest
But climate-banking rules could still kill it, warn Friends of Science.
Why China has no Palantir
Beijing wants software that can fuse data across the state, the military, and industry—but the institutions that hold that data do not trust anyone else to see it.
Threats outside China’s Toronto consulate fit documented pattern of transnational repression
A PRC-jacketed man threatened a Falun Gong practitioner outside China’s Toronto consulate, matching Citizen Lab’s account of Beijing’s transnational repression.
Beijing’s 2026 internet order: official gateways for the approved, a security hunt for everyone else
A classified CAC directive treats unauthorized Firewall jumping as a political-security problem that must be dealt with.
Brahma Chellaney: China’s Himalayan super dam is a “water bomb”
New Delhi should use Beijing’s own scientists—and its record of dam disasters—to spotlight the risks of the Medog project.
Chen warns AI could threaten the CCP’s hold on power
Beijing’s spy chief focuses on the risk posed by AI to Party rule, not to humanity.
U.S. says China travel risks are ‘not hypothetical’ after Americans detained
The State Department updated its travel advisory following Beijing’s detention of two more U.S. citizens.
Omtatah: Borrowed money is used to compromise Parliament
Kenya’s problem is not poverty, Okiya Omtatah says—it is borrowed cash that never faces Parliament, and a legislature too compromised to ask where it went.
When should a country be allowed to reject its debt?
Must citizens repay loans taken in their name that never served them? Kenya’s High Court is about to test a century-old doctrine lenders hoped was dead.
Omtatah’s odious-debt puts Kenya’s political lenders—and its political class—on notice
A Kenyan court fight over irregular borrowing is testing the wisdom of a 1927 doctrine on odious debt.
Fear of climate change–not climate change–was a killer in the Nepal floods
The real tragedy of Nepal’s flood was climate-driven dams—and the workers they put in the mountain’s path.
How China buried Tibet flood images after Nepal disaster
Censors erased viral footage while Chinese state media flooded platforms with official content.
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