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The Honeytrap Is the Least Interesting Thing in the Fang Fang File
Thirty espionage and influence cases across eight countries. Sex is the actual mechanism in two of them. The Fang Fang file is not the honeytrap story…
Aug 19
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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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American "Journalist" Caught Red-Handed: Paid CCP Spy Fed U.S. Election Intel Straight to Xi Jinping
In a federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia on Thursday, a U.S.
Jun 5
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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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She Spent Days Baking Desserts for a Wedding . The Driver of the Bus That Killed Her Family Couldn’t Read English Road Signs.
An immigrant family from Moldova, on their way to celebrate. A 48-year-old Chinese driver from Staten Island who federal officials say had no business…
May 31
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How Japan Just Detonated the CCP’s “New Militarism” Lie at Asia’s Biggest Security Summit
China sent a general. Not a minister. Japan sent a Koizumi with a single sentence — and used it to flip the entire information war on its head.
May 31
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