Trump Says Iran Has Been Hard‑Bargaining in Nuclear Talks, Warns ‘Fear’ May Be Necessary
By Gao Yun U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on Friday, Feb. 13 at the Fort Bragg military base in...
Taiwan Legislator Kao Chin Su-mei Investigated for Fraud
By Li Jingyao The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office is investigating independent legislator...
Hidden Man-Made Cave in Remote Chinese Mountain Prompts Online Speculation About Organ Harvesting
In recent years, cases of missing young people in China have surfaced repeatedly, with allegations circulating...
Taiwan Lawmaker Lee Chen-hsiu’s Nationality Dispute Continues as Mainland Affairs Council Questions Deregistration
The controversy surrounding the nationality and candidacy eligibility of Taiwan People’s Party legislator-at-large...
Father of HKDC Executive Director Anna Kwok Convicted, Critics Accuse Hong Kong Government of ‘Collective Punishment’
By Li Jingyao Anna Kwok, executive director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC), is wanted by the Hong Kong government with a HK$1 million bounty (approximately US$128,000). Her father, Kwok Yin-sang, has now been...
China’s Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong Faces Ouster Amid Health Rumors and CCP Power Struggle
By Jianyi Leaked post claims China's police chief will ‘step down’ On Feb.12, two contradictory pieces of information appeared simultaneously on the internet. The first surfaced on X (formerly Twitter): "Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong...
Japan’s Snap Election Victory Shows the Limits of China’s Economic Coercion
By Jinhuasan Takaichi's supermajority win reshapes Japan's political map Philip Luck, director of the economics program and Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), published a commentary on...
Xi Jinping’s Defense Minister Caught on Camera With a Grim Face as Military Purge Deepens
"If Xi Jinping comes to inspect our unit, I will personally take him out." Those words, attributed to a military corps commander facing political purge, were made public by a former Chinese government official identified...
Japan Won’t Return to Militarism: Its Wartime Ideology Came From French Philosophy, Not Conservatism
By Liu Junning Japan's February 2026 lower house election delivered a result that sent tremors across East Asia. Takaichi Sanae, Japan's prime minister and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), secured a historic supermajority...
The Blind Dissident Who Escaped China’s Village Prison: Chen Guangcheng’s Story
How a blind boy in rural Shandong became China's most famous self-taught lawyer Chen Guangcheng was born on Nov. 12, 1971, in Dongshigu village, Linyi, Shandong province. A single photograph survives from his infancy, taken...
Jimmy Lai Sentenced to 20 Years Under National Security Law
By Zhang Yu Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison under charges brought pursuant to Hong Kong’s National Security Law. The sentence marks one of the most severe penalties imposed on a...
Code Pink Accused of Ties to CCP Influence Network in House GOP Investigation
By Tian Jingxin The U.S. State Department and House Republicans on Tuesday, Feb. 10, announced coordinated actions targeting several far-left activist groups operating in the United States. Officials alleged that organizations including Code Pink and...