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China Mounts Fresh Campaign to Encircle Taiwan With Patrols
Controlling the east would become essential to enforcing an effective blockade of Taiwan during a Chinese invasion of the island
09/07/26Read it on BloombergParty Pitches Global Governance in Xi’s Potemkin City
Party Pitches Global Governance in Xi’s Potemkin City Executive Summary: The 2026 Global Governance Forum was carefully stage-managed by the Chinese...
6h agoRead it on China BriefTaiwan Says China Harassing Shipping With East Coast Patrol
China’s Coast Guard is harassing shipping with its latest patrol off Taiwan’s east coast and trying to exert a fictional jurisdiction...
6h agoRead it on Reuters
China’s Snooping Around Pacific Undersea Cables Raises Risks
U.S.-owned trans-Pacific cables face growing risks from sabotage and China....
4d agoRead it on Ars TechnicaU.S. Intel Confirms This Is China’s Secret Spaceplane
The Chinese spaceplane design is unsurprisingly very similar to the U.S. Space Force's history-making X-37B....
5d agoRead it on The WarZoneU.S. Intel Says China Could Deploy Space-Based Laser Weapons by Late 2020s
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency said in a new assessment that China could deploy space-based directed-energy weapons by the late 2020s, adding...
5d agoRead it on The EurAsian TimesChina Capitalizes on America’s Scientific Brain Drain
For generations, the flow of global talent was almost entirely one directional. Now China is increasingly attracting top researchers from U.S....
1w agoRead it on The DiplomatChina Is Collecting Militarily Useful Weather Data Abroad
A global meteorological warning system has become an excuse for China to embed AI-feeding weather stations on foreign territory, gathering data that...
1w agoRead it on The Strategist (ASPI)
China Is Collecting Militarily Useful Weather Data Abroad
A global meteorological warning system has become an excuse for China to embed AI-feeding weather stations on foreign territory, gathering data that would help its armed forces in war.
Solomon Islands and countries surrounding India are among the many locations at which the system is collecting weather data, and perhaps other information, then sending it back to China.
China Sends Navy After U.S. Warship
China dispatched naval forces to shadow an American warship near a disputed South China Sea shoal Tuesday as Taiwan confronted a Chinese Coast Guard...
1w agoRead it on Daily Signal
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