USS Tripoli Arrives in Middle East as US-Iran Conflict Escalates
As the U.S.-Iran conflict continues to escalate, the United States is accelerating troop deployments...
Canadian MP Michael Ma Faces Backlash for Dismissing China Forced Labor Evidence
On March 26, during a hearing of the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry and Technology...
Trump Misses CPAC for First Time in 10 Years; Iran Debate Splits Republican Camp
As the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas drew to a close, an unusual phenomenon...
What Holding Kharg Island Would Actually Require
On Friday, March 28, U.S. Central Command announced that the USS Tripoli had arrived in its area of responsibility...
Heart Medication Searches in China Jump 30-Fold After Sudden Death Case, Doctors Warn Against Misuse
A wave of concern over heart health is spreading across China after the reported sudden cardiac death of education influencer Zhang Xuefeng, 41, on March 24. Within hours, online searches for heart medications and related...
Trump Orders TSA Salaries to Be Paid Amid DHS Funding Deadlock
On Friday, March 27, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum directing the payment of salaries to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees amid a funding impasse in Congress over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)....
Chinese Entrepreneur Shen Qijia Calls the CCP ‘Bandits’ After 26 Years of Ignored Petitions
Shen Qijia's story reached international audiences after Jennifer Zeng, a prominent overseas Chinese media commentator and former political prisoner, released a video on March 25 featuring his case. Shen addressed the growing attention from audiences...
Xi Jinping’s Succession Trap
A phrase reportedly circulating inside Zhongnanhai, the walled compound in central Beijing where China's top leaders live and work, captures the mood inside the Chinese Communist Party's ruling elite: "The air in Beijing is colder...
Why Xi Jinping’s Military Purge Is Destroying China’s Own Armed Forces
In March 2026, the National People's Congress, Beijing's rubber-stamp legislature, opened its annual session inside the Great Hall of the People. The military delegation's roster was conspicuously thin. Over a hundred senior officers in the...
Guangzhou Party Chief Guo Yonghang Investigated; Close Aide to Ma Xingrui Falls
Guo Yonghang, a senior official in Guangdong province and former Party secretary of Guangzhou, is under investigation, according to a March 27 statement from China’s top anti-corruption authorities. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and...
Red Horse Red Sheep Year Meaning: Why Ancient Chinese Wisdom Warns Against Careless Speech
In traditional Chinese thought, fortune moves in cycles, rising and falling with shifts in time. Ancient observers looked to the heavens to read these changes, identifying certain years as periods of intensified energy. One such...
China Investigates Zhou Liang, Fourth Key Aide to Wang Qishan to Fall
China has opened an investigation into Zhou Liang, a senior financial regulator and longtime aide to former vice president Wang Qishan, in a move that leaves no remaining senior figure from Wang’s inner circle untouched....