[Op-ed by Brahma Chellaney, professor emeritus of strategic studies at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research and Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, Germany, and the author of, ‘Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis.’]
An Inside Climate News series that showed the often-hidden environmental impacts of China’s trillion-dollar global development push is a finalist for the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism.
[Op-ed by Paul Mwirigi, a Kenya-based writer specializing in African affairs. He holds a degree from the University of East Africa and has developed a strong foundation in building scalable and efficient digital solutions to issues around the continent.]
The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau probe corroborates International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and Citizen Lab’s findings that attacks against journalists were part of a coordinated espionage campaign sponsored by Beijing.
China on Monday test-fired an intercontinental missile from a submarine in the southern Pacific Ocean, the first such launch in two years, drawing immediate criticism from regional powers.
Op-ed by Kolas Yotaka, a Taiwan-based adviser and former senior government official. A former spokesperson for Taiwan’s Presidential Office and, before that, Cabinet spokesperson under Premier (now President) Lai Ching-te, she currently holds an affiliated research position at Keio University’s Global Research Institute in Tokyo.
According to media reports and Tibetan organizations, a 52-year-old Tibetan man named Lobga Rangzen (also known as Lobsang Palden) died after an apparent act of self-immolation outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on 2 July 2026. Described as a Tibetan activist, he was reportedly carrying a Tibetan flag and calling for freedom for Tibet before setting himself on fire.
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Chinese ballistic missile tests and naval forays will become a “persistent” feature of the Pacific as Beijing expands its security presence, New Zealand officials said in an internal document.
Australia and Vanuatu signed a long-awaited bilateral security and economic treaty Monday that prevents China creating a military base on the South Pacific island nation.
A new report by the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) exposes how vocational programs have turned minors into expendable labor under the guise of “training,” revealing a system where exploitation thrives behind censorship.
China expressed its anger and Taiwan its gratitude after the U.S., Britain, France and Germany raised the alarm about the Chinese Coast Guard and activities off the island’s east coast.
[Op-ed by César Eduardo Santos, researcher at the Expediente Abierto center (www.expedienteabierto.org). Specialized in the authoritarian influence of China and Russia in Latin America.]
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With global oil and gas prices soaring at the start of the Iran war, China quietly broke ground on three major coal-to-gas and coal-to-chemical projects worth roughly $10 billion in two regions with abundant coal resources.
China has witnessed the greatest stretch of sustained growth and poverty alleviation in human history, made possible by the brutal exploitation of millions workers. A new book recounts the life of one of them offering a glimpse into the dark side of China’s success.
Op-ed by Tommaso Franco, geopolitical analyst, member of the IISS and Chatham House, and a Junior Fellow at the Swiss Institute for Global Affairs (SIGA).
The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) condemns the Chinese government’s ongoing genocide and colonial occupation of East Turkistan, which Beijing calls “Xinjiang,” meaning “New Territory,” and its coordinated effort to launder these crimes through staged trade forums and complicit international media. Now in its thirteenth year, this genocide is not receding; the Party’s own leadership has just declared its permanence.
A new analysis suggests that Beijing may be tolerating or even encouraging toxic discourse to undermine the moral and political authority of Kyiv and its Western supporters, says Yurii Poita, MERICS Senior Associate Fellow and Head of the Asia Section at Kyiv-based New Geopolitics Research Network (NGRN).
Data centers are an essential component of China’s expansive mass surveillance system in the Uyghur region, quietly processing biometric and behavioral data to target ethnic minorities — yet they remain the least scrutinized component of this digital architecture, even as compatibility with American technology continues to be required.
The European Union is preparing to impose new sanctions on Chinese companies suspected of aiding Russia’s military operations. Foreign ministers from EU member states are set to discuss these additional measures on June 15 in Luxembourg. Under this latest sanctions package, four Chinese enterprises could be targeted, highlighting the bloc’s deepening concern over Beijing’s potential role in the Ukraine conflict.
Op-ed by Rowena He, research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of “Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China.” As a scholar of Tiananmen, she was denied a work visa to return to her associate professor position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
“Mothertongue” is one of two new films by renowned Korean-Chinese director Zhang Lu; the other being “Gloaming in Luomu. Both films share—in addition to certain thematic similarities—the principal cast. There’s Bai Baihe as Chunshu (“Spring Tree,” which is also the film’s original title), Liu Dan as her acting teacher Miss Zhang, and Wang Chuanjun as Miss Zhang’s son, Dongdong.
A Chinese cybersecurity expert has revealed to DW details of China’s new high-tech policing. From ski resort facial recognition to seats on a train, the system can track anyone and compile a “holistic profile.”
From climbing gyms to specialty bookstores and entrepreneur clubs, several women-focused spaces have opened in China’s major cities. These places of solidarity offer women ways to push back against pressures to have children in a country where feminist activism is closely monitored.
The best way to counter Beijing’s attempts to shrink Taiwan’s international space is by demonstrating the world’s openness to Taiwan and that Taiwanese are welcome to participate in all kinds of activities, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) co-founder and executive director Luke de Pulford said.
Taiwan’s presidential office condemned China on Sunday after the New York Times said one of its reporters was expelled from the country following an interview the newspaper did with Taiwan President Lai Ching-te.
Unmarked tunnels, missing trackers and fake doors have been uncovered during an initial probe into the deadliest mining tragedy in China in over 15 years, with the government vowing to leave no stone unturned, state media reported on Tuesday.
China’s latest carbon data suggests it has changed the way it calculates carbon emissions, reducing by half the emissions growth the country previously reported from 2020 to 2025, climate researchers argue in a new report.
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