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.
The Tiananmen massacre outside the square
The regime’s deadliest violence struck unarmed workers and citizens in the streets around Tiananmen, not inside it: Robin Munro.
Remembering Tiananmen as Carney moves closer to Beijing
The pursuit of a “strategic partnership” with China risks Canadian sovereignty, security, and moral credibility by downplaying the CCP’s transnational repression and the enduring lessons of the 1989 massacre, warn activists.
Defying erasure
The global battle to preserve the memory of Tiananmen Square.
China coal mine disaster: hollow regulations exposed
Decades of safety standards, repeated fines, and official oversight have failed to prevent routine illegal practices, concealed operations, and profit-driven disregard for human lives in China’s coal sector.
China’s coal surge as Iran war buffer comes at deadly cost
A catastrophic gas explosion in China’s top coal-producing province exposes the human toll of Beijing’s increased coal output during ongoing disruptions to oil and gas supply.
The CCP’s war on American AI
Foreign billionaires, fake activists, and the fight over American AI: Sam Lyman in conversation with Jordan Schachtel.
Carney’s China partnership risks reducing Canada to vassal state
Investigative journalist Sam Cooper deciphers Mark Carney’s Canada-China Business Council speech in Beijing—revealing the true meaning behind the rhetoric and the threats posed by closer alignment to China.
Beijing exports authoritarian censorship to Africa
Beijing’s pressure on Zambia to cancel RightsCon—the world’s largest digital rights conference—over the presence of Taiwanese participants is textbook authoritarian export of censorship.
Beijing’s tightening grip deepens Hong Kong’s loneliness crisis
For hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers, the price of Beijing’s greater control has been measured not only in lost freedoms but in a profound, everyday loneliness.
“Strategic partnership” transactional and reversible
China’s ambassador to Canada makes what was always implicit in Beijing’s worldview explicit: Carney’s China deal is reversible the moment Canada acts like a sovereign middle power on Taiwan.
CSIS warns of active Chinese spy rings and evolving espionage in Canada
China remains Canada’s leading threat for espionage and foreign interference, CSIS report warns.
Toronto police disrupt first-known Canadian SMS blaster cybercrime ring
“Project Lighthouse” uncovers the first documented use in Canada of sinister “SMS blasters” — portable devices that can unleash a wave of mass phishing attacks, threatening the very fabric of public safety.
China-Canada food safety pact could be a killer of a deal
China’s regulations look good on paper but the absence of an independent judiciary means the rules are sometimes applied inconsistently.
Gen Z revives Mao-era film as anti-privilege manifesto
A film intended to explore the trauma of the Cultural Revolution sparked millions of views and nostalgic Maoist slogans before censors stepped in.


