The loss of seats changed control over parliamentary committees and the ability to expose wrongdoing.
Threats, fear and surveillance: how Beijing targets students in the UK who criticise regime
Chinese students tell the Guardian they are scared to return home and worry for their families after being followed and harassed.
Aftershocks for Taiwan
As Taiwan recovers from its worst earthquake in 25 years, the island’s rescue efforts are now pitted against aftershocks.
Preparedness spares Taiwan from the worst
Taiwan’s most powerful earthquake in 25 years reveals an island of resilience.
Why Communist China is determined to weaponize Ebola
India would be the country most at risk of a major Ebola bioweapons attack.
The Bureau: How high does the Winnipeg-Wuhan lab story go in Canada, and does it connect to PRC election interference?
At the heart of the debacle is the issue of accountability. What role has our country played in building China’s dangerous biological capacity to potentially hold the world hostage?
China is selectively bending history to suit its territorial ambitions
Beijing’s unwillingness to let go of certain claims suggests there’s more at stake than reversing past losses.
Pakistan: suicide bombing claims five Chinese nationals working on CPEC project
Another deadly attack heightens concerns for Chinese nationals working on projects in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
Winnipeg lab document
The declassified intelligence document compiled by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and what it revealed about Canada’s so-called most secure microbiology lab.
Hong Kong’s freedoms: what China promised and how it’s cracking down
“Beijing’s ideal scenario is to keep Hong Kong as a financial center without all the freedom.” But freedom, it seems, has been a key driver of Hong Kong’s success.
White paper movement on film
A documentary maker manages the extraordinary during China’s pandemic: a film about the protests that brought lockdowns to an end.
A dissident in Europe is enraging Beijing. Now Chinese police are coming for his social media followers
Followers of an X account that circulates news censored in China find themselves in hot tea for ‘thought crime’.
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu tasked in PRC “biological intelligence collection mission”
Former U.S. State Department lead investigator says Dr. Qiu’s WIV collaborators systematically performed bat virus biosynthesis and were “illicitly acquiring Ebola … to make it super contagious”.
Hong Kong authorities rush through most repressive national security legislation in city’s history
Severe national security law expands scope abroad.
China revives socialist ideas to fix its real-estate crisis
Today’s housing crisis is much more severe than the last downturn, economists say, leaving the government with an even bigger challenge to clear up the mess.


