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The Invitation Comes First: What Xi's Youth Offer Hides
In June, the Chinese government invited an American scholar to an academic conference in Kunming, and its security services detained him inside the…
Oct 17
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Seventy Years of Bait: The CCP Playbook Behind the Fake Militia
A masked man ran an anti-CCP militia. It was fake, built by China's police to snare one exiled artist. The trap is older: since 1952, Beijing has lured…
Oct 15
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The Red Carpet Was Not America Kneeling. It Was America Choosing the Terrain.
On Wednesday night at Joint Base Andrews, America did something it almost never does.
Sep 24
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Beijing's Guest List for the White House Had Pentagon-Blacklisted Firms on It
Xi Jinping may now arrive without his executives. The ministry that was calling them, and what happened to Jack Ma, explain why Chinese founders never…
Sep 22
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Microsoft Shut 15 China Offices in Five Years. One Customer Is Why It Hasn't Left.
ByteDance is on track to spend over a billion dollars a year renting OpenAI models on Azure — and Beijing is funding the replacement.
Aug 17
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Beijing Ran Nine Secret Police Stations on French Soil. Paris Just Shut Them Down.
A botched airport kidnapping cracked open the Chinese Communist Party's shadow policing network in France. The fallout is still spreading across Europe.
Jun 24
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Typhon Launchers Stay in Japan: Tomahawks Now Target China from Kyushu
Last September, the U.S.
Jun 22
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181,000 drones. Four months. Made in Taiwan. Bound for Ukraine
181,000 drones.
Jun 22
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Capital Walks: Why Japan’s Banks Are Quietly Pulling Out of China
Regional bank offices in China down 20% in five years. Megabank lending down as much as 40%. This is a verdict — and the risks driving it run straight…
Jun 4
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Japan Has 14,125 Islands. Chinese Buyers Own Parts of Them Near U.S. Bases.
For the first time in its modern history, the Japanese government is going to find out who actually owns the country.
Jun 3
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Read the Megaphone, Not the Microphone: The Anatomy of an Axis Amplification Operation, Caught Live
By the time you finish this paragraph, the operation has already moved.
Jun 2
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The Alliance Beijing Wanted to Split Just Added Missiles
A Japanese defense minister and an American Secretary of War walked into Shangri-La. What they walked out with reads less like a meeting readout and…
Jun 1
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