The earthquake has reignited concerns about the vulnerability of China’s extensive hydropower projects in Tibet.
Will Trump crack the mystery of Covid-19’s origin?
The incoming Trump administration may revive efforts to investigate China’s responsibility, with some of his cabinet picks challenging prevailing narratives about COVID-19.
China emptying dams as cracks found after big quake in Tibet
China’s plans for hydropower development in vulnerable regions has alarmed neighboring India and Bangladesh, who fear impacts on tens of millions of people downstream and water supplies.
Hydropower colossus generates grave concern
The prospect of a massive dam in Tibet raises the roof on anxiety for downstream neighbors.
China’s alternative to “Iron Silk Road” bypasses Russia
China’s ongoing interest in securing delivery routes is part of a long-term investment that serves a variety of end goals, including its dependence on fossil fuels.
World’s largest dam to be built by China raises concerns in India, Bangladesh
China’s decision to build the world’s largest hydropower dam in a seismically active region on a river that flows into India and Bangladesh sparks concerns in both countries.
How China is expanding global influence via debt trap diplomacy
China’s Belt and Road Initiative has resulted in several unsustainable debt-for-infrastructure deals in South Asia and Europe, which further Beijing’s geostrategic ambitions.
Tibet earthquake raises a big question mark on China’s Yarlung Tsangpo super dam project
Why construct the world’s biggest dam in a seismically vulnerable region that doesn’t even require the energy it will generate?
Bigger than Three Gorges
China announces the construction of the world’s largest super dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River.
Disrupting harm from PRC proxies
A groundbreaking new report exposes the expanding reach of Beijing’s agents in their bid to influence and threaten, if need be, diaspora communities and their leaders.
Fleeing Xi’s ‘China Dream’
The great exodus of people and capital as China’s economic decline and squeezed politics push many to vote with their feet.
Trump ally on Canada’s fentanyl talk: Not good enough
U.S. officials urge Canada to start tackling big, systemic problems with organized crime.
China jails prominent journalist on spy charges
A celebrated state media journalist is sentenced to jail for seven years for speaking to foreign diplomats.
The China story
How the CCP leverages and manipulates overseas news outlets to spread its influence and narrative around the world.
China’s AI boom depends on an army of exploited student interns
As part of China’s digital underclass, vocational school students work as data annotators—for low pay and few future prospects.


