Insubordination Trend Rising in North Korean Military
North Korea is a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by a strong military establishment. Consequently, the...
France Fines Google, Facebook $230 Million Over ‘Dark Pattern’ Privacy Violation Schemes
Big tech behemoths Google and Meta have been exposed by France’s data protection agency CNIL for employing...
Blaming ‘Hostile Forces’, North Korea Says It Won’t Send an Olympic Team to Beijing
The North Korean regime is sitting out the 2022 Winter Olympics held in Beijing next month, citing condemnation...
Taiwan Should Destroy its Semiconductor Industry if Beijing Invades: US Study
A paper published in November by the U.S. Army War College has been gaining a lot of attention to the...
Strict COVID-19 Lockdowns Slash China’s Economic Growth
For the past few decades, China has been one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Even after COVID-19 broke out, according to China’s own data, the country recorded some economic growth in 2020. But...
China Conducts Mass Testing in Tianjin After Omicron Cases Pop Up
The Chinese port city of Tianjin is the latest to get hit by a COVID-19 outbreak. After over 20 cases of infections popped up, including two Omicron incidents, the city started mass testing citizens on...
Scammers Stealing Millions From NFT Investors
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) are the latest items to become a sought-after asset class. An NFT is a non-interchangeable unit of data stored on a blockchain in the form of a digital ledger. It can be...
Residents in Locked-Down Xi’an Made to Say ‘Thank You, Communist Party’ When Receiving Food
The city of Xi'an in China’s Shaanxi Province has been under a citywide lockdown since Dec. 23, 2021. Under the government’s stringent “Zero-COVID” policy, the city’s roughly 13 million residents have been subjected to the...
China Announces It May Deploy Troops to Support Kazakh Government Amidst Unrest
In order to help curb widespread civil unrest, People’s Republic of China (PRC) foreign minister Wang Yi said Beijing would be willing to increase "law enforcement and security cooperation” with neighboring Kazakhstan in order to...
Lithuanian MP Proclaims Country’s Support for Taiwan
On Jan. 4, an MP of the Lithuanian government, Gitanas Nausėda, claimed that his country supports the democratic government of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan against the increasingly hostile communist government of the...
Improve Your Appearance Naturally by Changing Your Mind
Before the age of 40, much of the way a person looks is determined by genetics. But after 40, a person's experiences and state of mind have a big impact on their appearance and personality....
Hypersonic Missiles and How They Could Change the Global Strategic Balance
Reports of successful hypersonic missile tests have emerged from Russia, China, and even North Korea. What are these missiles capable of and with this technology, in the hands of rogue states and aggressive regimes, what...