Despite a modest rise in national retail sales, Beijing and Shanghai face significant declines, prompting state media to launch a confidence-boosting campaign.
How Net Zero is weakening the West
Lessons of the past: principles must be “accompanied by steel along with good intentions,” or liberty itself will wither.
Data breach unmasks Chinese company as global exporter of censorship
A seismic data leak has identified Geedge Networks—founded by China’s “Great Firewall architect” Fang Binxing—and its role in exporting China’s authoritarian controls via ISP partnerships.
China’s increasing grip on Canadian institutions
CCP media control and election interference drive Canada’s largest global surge in dependence on Beijing, a new study shows.
Mapping China’s North American fentanyl commanders
Sinologist Chris Meyer and journalist Sam Cooper reveal CCP-aligned Chinese criminal networks as architects of global fentanyl trafficking, reshaping cartel operations under Xi Jinping’s regime.
Overbuilt? Assessing the diminishing returns to building in China
China’s decades-long construction boom has led to severe overbuilding—particularly in lower-tier cities—resulting in a property sector crisis with far-reaching consequences.
China’s data centres: watts behind the bytes
China’s AI-driven data center boom, powered by coal and prioritized over climate goals, epitomizes the energy paradox of generative AI.
From wheat to leverage
How the CCP exploits Canada’s regional fault lines.
Defiant Jiangyou protesters’ support of a bullied teen violently opposed by police
Protests erupted in Sichuan’s Jiangyou City over authorities’ mishandling of the brutal bullying of a 14-year-old girl, sparking violent police crackdowns and renewed scrutiny of systemic failures in addressing juvenile violence.
Behind the push to deepen Canada–China ties amid U.S. trade tensions
Canada’s push to deepen economic ties with China jeopardizes national security, democratic values, and crucial alliances warn critics; they urge prioritizing repairing U.S. relations instead.
Yang Xiaokai’s “Captive Spirits”
A clandestine network of Mao-era dissidents, “numerous as ox hairs,” shatter myths of Communist ideological unity while anchoring modern China’s freedom struggles in this unbroken lineage of defiance.
The dam at the roof of the world
China’s Yarlung Tsangpo project will be the largest hydroelectric project on Earth. What does that mean for India, and the Brahmaputra?
More overseas pro-democracy activists targeted by Hong Kong national security bounty
Hong Kong’s National Security Law targets 19 overseas activists—including Canadians tied to the “Hong Kong Parliament”—amid global backlash over transnational repression and legal risks to 15,000+ participants.
I’m an American citizen. Hong Kong put a bounty on my head.
A U.S. citizen branded a fugitive by Hong Kong authorities for advocating democracy, condemns Beijing’s weaponization of Hong Kong’s National Security Law to silence global dissent.
China’s $167-billion Tibetan dam alarms scientists, neighbors
China’s massive megadam project in Tibet has sparked fierce criticism for its precarious location in a seismically volatile, ecologically fragile region on the Tibetan Plateau.
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