Vision Times Staff
Taiwan’s $40B Defense Budget Blocked Again by Opposition
By Li Zexu Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan’s Procedure Committee met again on Dec. 9, and once more, the Executive Yuan’s proposed US$40 billion (approximately NT$1.25 trillion) special defense budget failed to make it onto the agenda....
Unfiltered Xi Jinping Video Sparks Health Rumors and Wave of Public Anger
By Jian Yi It took less than a day for a one-minute, ten-second clip of Chinese Communist leader Xi Jinping to surpass two million views. The caption said it all: this was a moment “CCTV’s...
Machado’s Absence at Nobel Peace Prize Highlights Venezuela’s Political Crisis
By Yang Tianzi On Dec. 10, Oslo, Norway, hosted the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Inside the solemn Oslo City Hall, King Harald V, Queen Sonja, and Latin American leaders including Argentine President Milei and Ecuadorian...
How Chen Zhili Turned China’s Schools into Tools of CCP Control
By Quchi China’s Communist Party has spent decades reshaping the nation’s schools, universities, historical memory, and moral consciousness. Few officials embodied the Party’s corrosive influence over education more clearly than Chen Zhili. Rising through Jiang...
Trump ‘Disappointed’ Zelensky Hasn’t Reviewed Ukraine Peace Plan
By Yang Tianzi As the Russia–Ukraine conflict enters a potentially pivotal stage, President Donald Trump delivered an unusually blunt message on Dec. 7 during his appearance at the Kennedy Center Honors. Asked about the status...
Hundreds of Hongkongers in Canada Mourn Fire Victims as MPs and Mayor Demand Justice
By Xiao Ran On Dec. 6, 2025, nearly 800 Hong Kong-Canadian residents and exiled Hongkongers gathered outside North York’s Memorial Community Hall, quietly forming a line that stretched across the plaza. Each held a white...
Tiananmen Revisited: The Political Coup Behind the Bloodshed
By Wei Pu International outlets have recently run several installments of Li Nanyang’s interviews with Bao Tong under the title “Bao Tong Revisits June Fourth.” The series offers a number of striking and original insights,...
Top US Universities Named for AI Ties to CCP Surveillance Labs
By Gao Yun A new research report finds that several top U.S. universities—including MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton—have maintained cooperative relationships in recent years with Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories that are deeply involved in...
The Chinese Vice President Han Zheng’s New Absence Is Not a Defection to Russia
By Li Deyan Chinese vice president Han Zheng has not appeared in public since early November, a silence long enough to ignite familiar speculation—from illness to internal investigations to outright defection. Online chatter even placed...
US Ends Engagement Era: Anti-Communism Week Signals Strategic Reset on China
By Meng Hao The United States has upended three decades of China policy in less than a month—and Beijing didn’t see it coming. In early November, the Trump administration quietly designated Nov. 2–8 as “Anti-Communism...
Did a ‘Seven-Pillar Sacrifice’ Cause the Hung Fuk Court Tragedy?
By Cai Siyun On the afternoon of Nov. 26, a fire ripped through Hong Kong’s Hung Fuk Court, igniting not one but seven residential towers in rapid succession. Even in a city accustomed to high-rise...
Frugality, Luxury, and Legacy: How Screens Shaped Imperial China
By Dai Dongni Screens are among the oldest forms of furniture in Chinese civilization, appearing as early as the Western Zhou period. Originally known as di, they stood behind the seat of the king—an emblem...