Sinologist Chris Meyer and journalist Sam Cooper reveal CCP-aligned Chinese criminal networks as architects of global fentanyl trafficking, reshaping cartel operations under Xi Jinping’s regime.
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Overbuilt? Assessing the diminishing returns to building in China
China’s decades-long construction boom has led to severe overbuilding—particularly in lower-tier cities—resulting in a property sector crisis with far-reaching consequences.
China’s data centres: watts behind the bytes
China’s AI-driven data center boom, powered by coal and prioritized over climate goals, epitomizes the energy paradox of generative AI.
Quebec engineering body finds former SNC-Lavalin CEO guilty on multiple counts of misconduct
The damning verdict marks a formal rebuke of systemic corruption under ex-CEO Jacques Lamarre’s watch.
Deep throat for the deep state
Michael Abramowitz’s legal challenge to his removal as Voice of America director highlights a power struggle over the agency’s shift from global journalism to advancing Biden-era domestic agendas.
From wheat to leverage
How the CCP exploits Canada’s regional fault lines.
Diaspora coalition demands sanctions against Hong Kong security chiefs
A coalition of Hong Kong pro-democracy and diaspora groups have called on Canada’s foreign minister to take a stand against transnational repression, triggered by illegal bounties targeting Canadians.
Behind the push to deepen Canada–China ties amid U.S. trade tensions
Canada’s push to deepen economic ties with China jeopardizes national security, democratic values, and crucial alliances warn critics; they urge prioritizing repairing U.S. relations instead.
Yang Xiaokai’s “Captive Spirits”
A clandestine network of Mao-era dissidents, “numerous as ox hairs,” shatter myths of Communist ideological unity while anchoring modern China’s freedom struggles in this unbroken lineage of defiance.
The dam at the roof of the world
China’s Yarlung Tsangpo project will be the largest hydroelectric project on Earth. What does that mean for India, and the Brahmaputra?
Wang Weiluo on the July flood discharge from Beijing’s reservoirs
Politically driven overfilling, structural flaws, and emergency discharges at several of the city’s reservoirs point to systemic failures in prioritizing water storage capacity over flood safety, says expert.
17 major dams in Beijing release water simultaneously, causing river breaches and leaving hundreds missing
Beijing’s July floods expose systemic failures in flood management and infrastructure prioritization.
I’m an American citizen. Hong Kong put a bounty on my head.
A U.S. citizen branded a fugitive by Hong Kong authorities for advocating democracy, condemns Beijing’s weaponization of Hong Kong’s National Security Law to silence global dissent.
China’s $167-billion Tibetan dam alarms scientists, neighbors
China’s massive megadam project in Tibet has sparked fierce criticism for its precarious location in a seismically volatile, ecologically fragile region on the Tibetan Plateau.
The people’s billionaire
Researchers trace a CCP-linked tech mogul to U.S. pro-Hamas protests and a Vancouver-led terror network.


