How Costco Keeps Prices Low—and Why Its Membership Model Reshaped Global Retail
By Gao Yun For decades, Costco has built its reputation around a single operational commitment: delivering...
Wang Zhian Absent as Chen Guangcheng’s High-Profile Lawsuit Begins in Japan
By Li Muzi, Vision Times On Feb. 10, the defamation lawsuit filed by exiled Chinese human rights lawyer...
‘A Powder Keg’: Experts Say Xi Faces Risks of Coup, Mutiny, and Popular Revolt
By Meng Hao, Vision Times Hudson Institute China Center director Yu Maochun recently argued that the...
Xi Jinping’s First Political Purge Began With a Warning to His Predecessors
By Tian Xuebin At a recent meeting of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC...
AI Silences Human Speech: Moltbook and the Rise of a Self-Governing Machine Society
A technology platform called Moltbook has rapidly become a global flashpoint. The site claims more than 1.6 million active users who engage in continuous discussion—founding virtual belief systems, debating the meaning of existence, and coordinating...
Epstein Files Expose a Legal Gray Zone Inside the United States
By He Qinglian On Jan. 30, 2026, authorities released what they described as the “final batch” of records related to Jeffrey Epstein. The disclosure included more than 3.5 million pages of documents, roughly 2,000 videos,...
Taiwan and East China Sea Escalations Raise Regional Security Risks
In recent years, as security tensions in the Indo-Pacific region continue to rise, the U.S.-Japan alliance has been gaining increasing weight in the regional strategic landscape. From tensions in the Taiwan Strait to military frictions...
Chinese Communist Party Funds Labeled ‘No Longer Needed’ By Israel
Recently, as the Middle East remains in turmoil, a report of Chinese capital withdrawing from Israel’s business sector has triggered far-reaching political reactions. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) unilaterally froze investments in Israel citing...
Kao Chin Su-mei Investigated for Fraudulent Assistant Fees and National Security Concerns
The National Security Maintenance Division of the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau received a tip-off alleging that independent legislator Kao Chin Su-mei may have been involved in fraudulent claims of assistant fees, with related financial...
UN Experts Sound Alarm on Forced Labor Targeting Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Other Minorities
By Li Ting United Nations experts recently expressed deep concern over ongoing allegations of forced labor targeting Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tibetans, and other minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and other parts of...
US Military Chases and Seizes ‘Aquila II’ Oil Tanker After Month-Long Pursuit
By Gao Yun U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Monday, Feb. 9 that after the U.S. military discovered an oil tanker attempting to flee the U.S.-imposed Venezuelan oil exclusion zone in the Caribbean,...
US Issues New Navigation Warning for Ships Passing Through Strait of Hormuz
By Gao Yun As tensions between the United States and Iran over nuclear issues continue to rise, Washington on Monday, Feb. 9 issued updated navigation guidance for commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The...