The West is miscalculating if it thinks it can safely push Putin to the brink.
Flee from floods
Why did the Chinese government choose not to reveal the real total capacity of the Three Gorges Dam reservoir – perhaps the most critical technical specification of the entire project?
Peach blossoms on the back, hometown underwater
A photographer captures 30 decades of life in upheaval for Three Gorges migrants and one moment, in particular, that stirred an entire nation.
China is the winner in the Russia-Ukraine war
The US must remember that communist China is its greatest threat, and to resume its ‘pivot to Asia’ policy.
The West mimics Mao
Takes a Green Leap Forward.
A human rights lawyer pays the painful price of standing up to Xi’s China
Once a high-flying corporate attorney, Ding Jiaxi awoke to a far more perilous vocation: human rights law in China.
Where did the Yangtze go?
Expert highlights government actions as reason for dry-up, not just absence of rain.
6.8M earthquake triggers lockdown criticism
As disaster strikes the southwest of China’s Chengdu capital, residents are left reeling from a fixation on pandemic restrictions in the midst of an emergency.
The Great Absurdity
Is insisting on “Zero Covid,” an early rehearsal for total social control?
Lianfang Street Standoff
A rare rupture in crowd control reveals the level of “zero-COVID” frustration in China.
Sichuan power crunch sparks calls for rethink of coal in China’s energy mix
The hydropower hub calls into question the race for renewable energy.
Ten days in Xi’an
Probe International Exclusive: The extraordinary account by acclaimed independent investigative journalist, Jiang Xue, detailing the unprecedented lockdown of the city of Xi’an, in central China’s Shaanxi Province, is now available to read […]
A 2nd Chernobyl
Who knows where the fallout from Zaporizhzhia, a nuclear power complex 50 percent larger than Chernobyl, might land?
Farewell China NGO Project
An independent source of analysis on foreign NGOs working in China is ending its run after five years.
The Big Green Lie almost everyone claims to believe
The claim that the “science was settled” on climate change never withstood scrutiny. What is settled is the abject failure of the three-decade-long attempt by the bureaucracies of the 195 countries of […]


