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How China Is Learning From Iran’s Coercive Use of Strategic Waterways
Commentary by Tang Ming-hui, Up Media. The Singapore-flagged container ship Ever Lovely, operated by Evergreen Marine Corporation, was struck on its starboard side by a drone off the coast of Oman, south of the Strait...
China’s 280 Million Gig Workers: What the Official Numbers Hide About the Jobs Crisis
The China New Employment Forms Research Center, a semi-official think tank co-founded by Capital University of Economics and Business and the China Employment Promotion Association, both operating within the orbit of China's Ministry of Human...
Do Not Underestimate Xi Jinping’s Ambition to Invade Taiwan: Commentary
Commentary by Sung Kuo-cheng, originally published by Up Media In recent years, the international community has generally sought to understand China's external actions through the lens of “rational costs,” assuming that Xi Jinping would not...
As Trump Met Xi in Beijing, Japan Was Watching Closely
News analysis by Kung Hsiang-sheng The May 14–15 summit in Beijing between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping received close scrutiny in Tokyo, where officials were focused less on trade announcements than...
Tamsui, Taiwan: Historic Sites and Hidden Gems
By Zheng Zhiqiao Tamsui Taiwan historic sites reward any visitor willing to walk slowly. The town sits at the mouth of the river that shares its name, about 30 minutes by metro from central Taipei....
A Former Chinese School Principal Says He’d Rather Beg Online Than Corrupt Himself Again
By Li Muzi China’s school corruption was laid bare on April 22, 2026, when a former school principal from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in southwestern China, published a video statement that spread rapidly...
Wen Qiang’s Last Words to Wang Lijun: ‘My Today Is Your Tomorrow’
By Fu Longshan Editor’s note: This article draws on the analyses of multiple China scholars and on accounts that have circulated within Party circles, including details attributed to sources that cannot be independently verified. Some...
Virginia Screening of ‘State Organs’ Confronts Audience with China’s Forced Organ Harvesting
Roughly 30 community members took their seats inside the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg, Virginia, on the night of April 23, 2026, to watch State Organs, an award-winning documentary on what the panel that followed described...
Hawaii UFO Sighting: Witnesses Saw Blue Object Fall Into Pacific
A strange light over the Pacific turned a quiet evening on Oahu into one of the more widely discussed UFO sightings in recent American memory. On the night of Dec. 29, 2020, residents of Hawaii’s...
You May Be Sick of the Cold, But Cold Is Not What Makes You Sick. Here’s Why.
Many people across cultures grow up hearing that cold weather makes you sick. Going outside without a coat, breathing in cold air, sleeping in a chilly room, getting caught in cold rain or snow, or...
‘Storming Huairen Hall:’ A Failed Coup Attempt and the Shockwaves Inside China’s Military
How the Cultural Revolution’s “February Adverse Current” exposed deep fractures within the Chinese Communist Party, triggered a purge of senior leaders, and left Mao Zedong obsessed with the specter of military defection. By He Zi...
The Vanishing CCDI Notice: What Zhang Youxia’s “Deleted” Purge Reveals About Xi Jinping’s Deepening Crisis
An unprecedented announcement—and abrupt retraction—of a Central Military Commission purge has exposed severe fractures at the apex of the Chinese Communist Party. The disappearance of an official disciplinary notice points not to consolidation of power,...