Last Friday, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese jetted off for a marathon of international summits, the most significant of which will be the
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U.S. Set to Roll Out New Stealth Bomber That’s Designed to Be Invisible to China’s Radars
The B-21 is a smaller and more advanced version of the famously capable and infamously expensive B-2. It is currently on schedule to start flying
Report Shows China Is Massively Underreporting Its Shark Catch
Dalian Ocean Fishing used banned gear to deliberately catch and illegally cut the fins off of huge numbers of sharks in international waters, Mongabay
‘There Are Solutions to These Abuses’: How China Can Rein in Illegal Fishing
Earlier this month, Mongabay published an article uncovering a massive illegal shark finning scheme across the fleet of one of China’s largest tuna
COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a ‘Complex and Grave Situation’ Inside a Wuhan Lab
The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal.
Fearful of Deliberately Vague Rules, Online Fandoms in China Internalize Self-Censorship
When talking about censorship in China, most people immediately think of the government. Censorship is imagined as a finely tuned machine of
Olaf Scholz’s Trip to China: Is Germany Really a ‘Freeloader’?
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s planned visit to China would make him the first European Union leader to make the trip since the start of the COVID-19
New Era of Gerontocracy in China and U.S.
The Biden-Harris Administration’s National Security Strategy has declared that the “Post-Cold War era” is “definitively over.” The U.N. is warning
How the CIA Will Know if China Is Preparing to Attack Taiwan
While Taiwan currently needs to wait years for its crucial asymmetric-warfare weapons, one former CIA analyst explains what signs the U.S.
How a Chinese American Gangster Transformed Money Laundering for Drug Cartels
Xizhi Li pioneered a new method that enriched Latin American drug lords and China’s elite. A DEA investigation found the Chinese government may have
The Globetrotting Con Man and Suspected Spy Who Met With President Trump
Tao Liu’s criminal odyssey took him from money laundering in Mexico to a massive scam in China to Trump’s exclusive New Jersey golf club.
Four Scenarios for a World in Disorder
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent speech to the Communist Party Congress could be one of the most consequential of the decade. He told the audience —