Pentagon Orders Major Review of US Military Deployments Across Europe
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on June 18 that the Pentagon will conduct a comprehensive...
Samsung Moves HQ to Texas as Corporate Flight From High-Tax States Gains Steam
Samsung Electronics has confirmed plans to relocate its North American headquarters from New Jersey to...
Chinese Smart TVs Accused of Monitoring Home Networks, Renewing Privacy Fears
Chinese-made smart televisions are once again in hot water over privacy and data collection practices...
Trump and Iran Sign Historic Versailles Accord, Launching 60-Day Path to Peace
The U.S. and Iran have officially signed a preliminary agreement to end months of escalating conflict...
OpenAI Report Finds Suspected China-Linked Accounts Used ChatGPT for Influence Campaigns
Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI released a new threat intelligence report on June 10, stating that it has banned a group of accounts suspected of being linked to communist China. These accounts were found to be...
Taiwan’s TSMC Posts Record May Revenue of US$13.2 Billion
Taiwan’s leading contract chipmaker TSMC announced via a press release on June 10 that its May revenue reached $13.2 billion USD (NT$416.975 billion), up 1.5 percent month over month and 30.1 percent year over year,...
Taiwan Develops Rare Earth Extraction Tech To Support ‘Non-China Supply Chain’
Communist China dominates the global supply of rare earths. In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has increasingly "weaponized" rare earth resources, prompting the United States and European countries to seek alternative supply chains. ...
Fishing Ban Enforcement Turns Deadly In Chongqing As Teen Drowns During River Chase
China's decade-long nationwide fishing ban, introduced by Beijing as an environmental measure to restore river stocks, has turned local fishery enforcement into a confrontation machine. In Chongqing, officers tasked with clearing recreational anglers from rivers...
KMT Chair Cheng Li-wen’s Washington Visit Collapses After White House Meeting Canceled
In June, with just five months remaining before Taiwan's local elections, Kuomintang (KMT) Chair Cheng Li-wen embarked on what was expected to be a carefully orchestrated visit to the United States. The trip is believed...
‘Never Let Taiwan Fall Into the Hands of Thugs’: Mainland Chinese Mock Beijing’s Unification Pitch on Douyin
At a routine briefing on June 10, 2026, Zhang Han, a spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, was asked to explain one of Beijing's claimed "seven improvements" that would result from unification with Taiwan. The...
US Raises Alarms Over Potential ASML EUV Technology Reaching China
According to a June 18 report by Bloomberg, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has reportedly questioned whether one of ASML's highly restricted extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines may have ended up in China, raising...
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...