Swiss Ski Resort Bar Fire Kills 40, Over 100 Injured
By Yang Tianzi At 1:30 a.m. local time on Jan. 1, 2026, a serious fire broke out at a bar in the famous...
A 600-Year-Old Mystery: Who Designed the Forbidden City?
By Yi Xin As the imperial palace of 24 emperors across the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Forbidden...
Chinese Military Launches Surprise Taiwan Encirclement Drills, Bluff or Prelude to Combat?
By Meng Hao Just one day after Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an concluded the Shanghai–Taipei Twin Cities...
The Life of Zhao Ziyang: What His Experiences Reveal About the CCP’s Brutality
By Zhang Yuming A former section chief surnamed Zhang once told me that when the mass rally was convened...
Merchant-Led Iran Protests Signal Deep Unrest at the End of 2025
By Yang Tianzi, Vision Times. As the bells welcoming the New Year of 2026 rang out across Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran found itself confronting one of the most severe domestic political crises since...
‘This Is Not a Crisis, but Death’: A Shanghai Commentator on the Chinese Economy
By Wu Hongsen A collapsing property market, high unemployment, shrinking consumption, falling corporate profits, and the closure of large numbers of factories and shops — these phenomena are often described as an economic crisis or...
Nighttime Drones and Unexplained Odors Fuel Public Health Fears in China
By Cai Siyun In recent weeks, a growing number of Chinese social media users have reported unexplained odors and nighttime drone activity in multiple regions of the country. According to these accounts, drones were seen...
Peng Peiyun’s Death: Reassessing the Figure Behind China’s Population Control Campaign (Part I)
On Dec. 21, 2025, Peng Peiyun died in Beijing at the age of 96. Some media outlets noted that the date coincided with the winter solstice and with what is traditionally known in the Chinese...
Factories Close, Workers Sleep on the Streets: Dongguan’s Vanishing Workforce Raises Hard Questions
Changqing Street was once one of Dongguan’s busiest commercial areas. Today, it feels unusually quiet. In a video shared online, a vlogger films the nearly empty street and asks where everyone has gone. The livestreamers...
US Navy Signals Combat Readiness as China Conducts Large-Scale Drills Around Taiwan
By Jian Yi “The U.S. Navy is ready to fight. Day or night.” The message appeared on the U.S. Navy’s official account on Dec. 29, accompanied by a 21-second video highlighting combat readiness, as the...
Memories of Jining: A Elderly Survivor of Tyranny Quits the Chinese Communist Party
The Tuidang movement, started in November 2004, encourages Chinese around the world to renounce their oaths made to lay down their lives for communism when they joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or its affiliated...
Xi Jinping Told to ‘Know His Place’ as His Authority Suffers Further Downgrade
By Li Jingyao, Vision Times From Dec. 25-26, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Politburo met for its annual "Democratic Life Meeting," chaired by Party leader Xi Jinping. While the gathering followed established ritual, observers noted...