Vision Times Staff
China’s Two-Tier Society: How State Employment Concentrates Security, Status, and Retirement Benefits
In China's northeast, the divide between those inside the state system and those outside it has hardened into something resembling a caste boundary. A generation ago, movement between the two was common. People married across...
Trump Announces New Talks on Iran War as Ceasefire Nears Expiration
According to Al Jazeera, on April 19, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that American negotiators are planning to travel to Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, on Monday to advance a new round of talks aimed...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Faces Heated Debate Over AI Chip Exports To China Amid Security Concerns
According to a report on April 18 by Tom’s Hardware, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently engaged in a heated debate with podcast host Dwarkesh Patel over whether the United States should continue exporting AI chips...
‘Epic Fury:’ B-2 Bombers Launch 30-Hour Strikes From US Soil in Intercontinental Operation
A report from Guessing Headlights on April 17 notes that wars often take place far away, until a single detail suddenly pushes perception beyond its limits. What drew attention this time was not simply the...
CCP Confirms Purge Of Nine Senior Generals And Three Military-Industrial Leaders Over Discipline Violations
Recently, the CCP’s latest bulletin from the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress for the first time disclosed the reasons behind the downfall of nine senior military generals. All of them are “suspected of...
China Uses Social Media to Amplify Taiwanese Voices in Information Warfare: Reuters Report
Reuters noted that in December last year, the Chinese military conducted large-scale drills around Taiwan while simultaneously carrying out psychological operations via smartphone screens, using social media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube to wage...
Chinese Dissident Yi Haihua Goes Missing in Dubai After Automated Distress Letter Is Sent
Yi Haihua, a 45-year-old Guangzhou entrepreneur and dissident writer, spent over a decade building a modest online presence across Weibo, X (formerly Twitter), and Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok, promoting democratic values and human...
Wuhan’s Former Mayor Charged With Bribery After Publicly Blaming Beijing for COVID-19 Cover-Up
On April 16, 2026, China's Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Party-controlled body that oversees criminal prosecution nationwide, announced it had authorized the arrest of Zhou Xianwang, the former mayor of Wuhan and former vice chairman of...
Hong Kong Sends Uncharged Protesters to Mainland China Under ‘Rehabilitation’ Program, Critics Cite Coercion
When Hong Kong police cracked down on the 2019 protests against a proposed extradition law, which would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be sent to mainland China to face trial in courts controlled by...
How Fig Trees Reproduce Without Visible Flowers: The Two-Hour Life of the Fig Wasp
Cut open a ripe fig and you will find something no botanist's diagram quite prepares you for: a dense, fleshy interior packed not with seed pulp but with the remnants of an entire reproductive cycle....
Freedom House Report Highlights Beijing-Linked Transnational Repression, Citing Shen Yun Bomb Threat in Toronto
The U.S. human rights organization Freedom House released its report “Collaboration and Resistance: Tracking Transnational Repression” on April 16. It shows that among newly recorded cases of direct physical transnational repression in 2025, those involving...
Xinjiang Police Officer Zhang Yabo Defects to Germany, Alleges Abuses Inside Detention System
The Chinese authorities have secretly established multiple internment camps in Xinjiang, with Uyghurs as the main group being persecuted. These camps are also reportedly associated with violence, torture, and policies described by some as genocide....