Maduro’s capture triggers heavy sour crude squeeze as Caribbean tanker routes shift and China’s $17-19B oil-backed loans hang in balance.
China’s economy in collapse
A CCP insider warns China’s grim economics is escalating social unrest over widespread unemployment, inequality, wage disputes, debt, and stagnant mobility.
Climate lawsuits against U.S. energy giants: a strategic boon for China
Activist-driven litigation threatens to undermine American energy independence while bolstering China’s dominance in green technologies.
Beijing’s indifference exposed
Cold official response to Kunming train tragedy sparks outrage amid Hong Kong fire grief.
Global arms industry booms amid China’s defense dip
As global rivals ramp up their defense spending, questions arise about China’s ability to maintain its aggressive military posture amidst a drop in arms revenue.
Nepal charges Chinese state firm and 55 officials with corruption
Nepal’s anti-graft watchdog says state-owned China CAMC Engineering, in tandem with Nepali officials, colluded to inflate the costs of a Belt and Road airport project.
China’s $1B green “priority” dam rocked by scandal
Allegations of corruption and shoddy construction at Fujian’s Tongan power project take centerstage as part of Beijing’s scripted political theater.
Hong Kong responds to disaster differently from Beijing
Although the gulf is narrowing.
Hong Kong apartment fire tests Beijing-backed rule as anger mounts
The fire undercuts the government’s insistence it can cater to people’s needs without giving them a greater say.
If China can bully Japan, it can bully anyone
If China can punish Japan — economically powerful, diplomatically influential and protected by a U.S. defense treaty — then no other country should imagine itself beyond Beijing’s reach.
U.S. targets India’s pharma sector in Fentanyl fight, citing rising precursor chemical exports
Canada isn’t the only focus of U.S. efforts to combat the fentanyl trade.
China plays chess while the rest of the world plays checkers
The $2 trillion shadow lending empire that targeted the U.S. for two decades—China’s global financial offensive.
Since the beginning of this year, three megabridges have collapsed in China
Should extra-large bridges be built in geologically unstable areas? Basic Common Sense would like to know.
Landslide topples China’s Hongqi Bridge
Impoundment of world’s future tallest dam suspected as trigger.
Gambling with geology
Just months after its grand opening, China’s Hongqi Bridge partially collapsed in Sichuan — a catastrophic failure that experts are calling a design failure that “should never happen.”
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