Daily briefings of censored domestic and international China news
A declassified National Security Bureau report reveals Chinese intelligence services and United Front organs are contracting criminal proxies to carry out physical assaults, staged traffic collisions, and debt-collection intimidation campaigns to silence Beijing critics across Taiwan.
Chinese diplomatic envoys threatened Palau with state retaliation after attempting to buy off the Pacific island nation's recognition of Taiwan with promises of one million tourists and luxury hotel developments, prompting Palauan President Surangel Whipps Jr. to openly reject Beijing's extortion.
China's Ministry of Commerce and customs authorities imposed sweeping export controls on tunnel-boring machines, plateau shotcrete equipment, and high-capacity dredgers, barring unlicensed transfers to sensitive border dispute zones and weaponizing Beijing's 70 percent global heavy machinery monopoly.
State-owned China Merchants Port Holdings abruptly terminated its $392 million Colombo logistics hub project and forced the debt-distressed Sri Lanka Ports Authority to pay a $21.9 million settlement, draining scarce foreign exchange while abandoning the 50-year concession.
China's Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology issued Announcement No. 48, adding forty cutting-edge technologies in artificial intelligence, photovoltaics, and biomedicine to Beijing's export control catalogue while mandating immediate pre-export registration.
China's Taiwan Affairs Office blacklisted a trading firm owned by the father of Taiwanese lawmaker Puma Shen, weaponizing administrative sanctions and coordinated state-media smears to intimidate a prominent political critic and disrupt Taipei's mayoral race.
China's Ministry of Commerce agreed to a discretionary fast-track export channel for rare earths and permanent magnets in a bilateral trade pact, conditioning predictable mineral shipments on European commitments to fast-track sensitive dual-use technology licenses for Beijing.
A congressional assessment revealed that the People's Liberation Army is operationalizing deep-diving submersibles, autonomous glider swarms, and pre-deployed seabed cutters under a 'Command of the Deep Sea' doctrine designed to sever trans-Pacific fiber-optic cables during regional crises.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs sanctioned sitting cabinet ministers from Paraguay and Belize under its Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, freezing assets and barring entry in an aggressive extraterritorial attempt to sever Taiwan's remaining diplomatic alliances.
Chinese mining conglomerates controlling Zimbabwe's critical mineral reserves have formally petitioned Harare to delay its January 2027 raw lithium export ban, triggering a sharp government rebuke after Chinese firms shipped $2.16 billion in unprocessed battery minerals overseas.
China's Ministry of Commerce warned it will take 'necessary measures' against a 15-nation coalition led by the United States and the European Union, after the group signed a joint ministerial statement establishing dedicated platforms to counter state-subsidized industrial overcapacity.
The Chinese Mission to the European Union demanded European institutions enforce Beijing's 'One China principle' and halt engagement with Taipei, after the European Parliament voted 454 to 86 to reject Beijing's distortion of UN Resolution 2758 and its coercive diplomatic isolation of Taiwan.