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.
Why China has no Palantir
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.
How China buried Tibet flood images after Nepal disaster
Censors erased viral footage while Chinese state media flooded platforms with official content.
If this is a natural disaster, what is there to hide?
Same flood, two stories: Nepal counted the dead; China hid the footage of its national gate vanishing.
Hu Ping: The legacy of Zhu Rongji
How the Party turned public factories into cadre fortunes—and called it a miracle.
Hong Kong shows how a free society can become a dictatorship
Liberty does not die in a coup; it dies when the courts, press, and civic groups that once protected it are rewritten into instruments of “national security.”
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.
Beijing’s Excalibur: Coal as China’s weapon of sovereign power
At the exact moment Western economies rush to eliminate coal, China is deliberately scaling output by 25%, embedding it deeper into power, steel, chemicals, and national resilience.
Hong Kong independent bookstores under siege
Another bookstore raid on sedition charges underscores the city’s shrinking space for free inquiry and public discussion.
Guangxi floods raise alarm over structural failures in aging reservoirs
Heavy rains from Typhoon Maysak have ignited intense scrutiny over the safety and maintenance of the area’s aging infrastructure built during the Great Leap Forward era.
Typhoon Maysak exposes decades of neglect after 66-year-old dam collapses
A 50-meter breach in the 1958-era Liulan Reservoir dam raises alarm over core structural defects, and public warnings left unheeded.
CCP United Front rebrands for the TikTok generation
The CCP’s long-standing political co-optation network is reinventing itself as a social media personality aimed at embedding Party narratives into everyday online life.
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