The CIA Wants to Know the Truth About China: Mandarin Video Draws Millions of Views
By Li Muzi On Jan.15, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released a Mandarin-language video...
Xi’s Power Wanes Amid Sweeping Party Purge and Succession Uncertainty
By Li Jingyao With the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) scheduled to convene its 21st National Congress...
NASA Prepares for Artemis 2 Mission to Moon for February
NASA has announced that final preparations are being made to roll out its Artemis 2 mega rocket. With...
Hu Yaobang: Betrayed, Broken, and Silenced by the CCP
By Fu Longshan In official Chinese textbooks, Hu Yaobang’s life ends with three sterile words: “died...
Xi Jinping’s Shortened CCDI Speech Signals Eroding Authority
By Jingyao Li From Jan. 12 to 14, the Chinese Communist Party convened the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) in Beijing. Compared with CCDI plenary sessions in previous...
The Spice That Crossed Oceans
It begins with a scent — warm, unfamiliar, a whisper of lands you’ve never seen. For centuries, that scent moved people to sail, to trade, and to conquer. Spice — a word that once meant...
Reports Say Hu Chunhua Tapped for Succession as Wang Yang Assists Wen Jiabao
By Jingyao Li The Chinese Communist Party quietly established a body known as the Central Decision-Making and Deliberation Coordination Institution in late 2025. Despite its sweeping title, who actually runs the institution—and how—remains opaque. Recent...
The Quiet Power of Tea
Just before sunrise in a New York apartment, a woman in her late sixties waits for water to boil. At 5:30 AM, the city is still hushed. She spoons loose black tea into a small...
From Fiction to Reality: Jack Ryan Mirrors Venezuela Palace Raid
By Yuan Haiyin A U.S. television series released in 2019 has suddenly surged back into the spotlight. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan—once dismissed as exaggerated and implausible—is now being hailed online as a “prophetic drama” following...
Prominent Figure in China’s Go World Nie Weiping Dies After Sudden Illness
By Li Muzi On the evening of Jan. 14, Nie Weiping—9-dan Go (Weiqi) master, former chief coach of the Chinese National Go Team, and widely revered as the “Go Sage”—passed away in Beijing at the...
China’s Local Governments Face Scrutiny Over ‘Distant-Water Fishing’ Practices
By Li Muzi As China’s economic downturn deepens and local government finances grow increasingly strained, a practice known as “distant-water fishing” has drawn rising concern. The term refers to cases in which local authorities cross...
China’s One-Child Policy: A Demographic Catastrophe Decades in the Making
By Zeng Jieming Countless facts—many of them still unfolding today—have long made one reality clear: the nationwide one-child policy imposed in 1981, approved by Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun and designed by Song Jian, was...