The State Department updated its travel advisory following Beijing’s detention of two more U.S. citizens.
Beijing’s quiet offensive in America’s Pacific backyard
The unresolved questions after a reformist governor’s sudden death.
North American LNG won’t displace Asia’s coal
Why 190 million tonnes per annum of export capacity still can’t crack China and India’s sovereign energy systems.
The CCP’s greatest insecurity—and America’s greatest weapon
It’s time to fundamentally rethink America’s approach to the Chinese Communist Party: Sam Brownback.
China’s South China Sea claims
A 20th-century invention rooted in nationalism and cartographic errors.
What many analysts get wrong about the Iran war
The wrong metrics are being used. Stripped of sentiment, the coalition is executing and winning.
How China built Iran’s surveillance state — and America broke it
China’s advanced surveillance tech helped Iran to construct a near-total control system—only for it to collapse under U.S. intervention during recent unrest.
The war in Iran is keeping Taiwan safe
The underwhelming performance of China-supplied arms and defense systems in Iran underscores the potential for a humiliating setback in Beijing’s military aspirations to take over Taiwan.
The Third-Worldist logic
“Decolonization” in activist rhetoric often implies real, violent action rather than abstract academic discussion: Zineb Riboua.
The CCP’s stealth war on America
The CCP threat is real-time and multi-domain—not future hypothetical—and encompasses military, cyber, economic, espionage, and societal attacks, warns a retired four-star U.S. general.
Tehran’s traffic cameras enabled precision strike
An Israeli intelligence operation that secretly compromised nearly all of Tehran’s traffic cameras, paved the way for the airstrike that eliminated Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Protests exposed regime’s reliance on Chinese surveillance tech
How the export of China’s “digital authoritarianism” model enabled Iran’s crackdown on protestors, and contributed to the downfall of the country’s top regime figures.
Beijing afraid Iran strikes will spur uprising in China, insiders say
The U.S.-led strikes in Iran and the death of its leader have sent shockwaves through Beijing, prompting fears of a potential anti-government chain reaction that could destabilize the CCP regime.
The Iran question is all about China
By striking Iran directly, the Trump administration is dismantling, whether by design or by consequence, a pillar of China’s regional architecture.
The world order is shifting — and China is moving fast to shape it
The implications of shifting alliances amid a turbulent U.S.-China relationship.
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