Trump Signs Order Aimed at Boosting Domestic Defense Suppliers
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on July 20 aimed at boosting domestic suppliers of defense contractors. The directive became the latest action...
Philippines Says China Injured Navy Sailor With Wooden Baton in South China Sea Clash
The Philippine Navy, on July 20, accused China Coast Guard personnel of attacking a sailor with a wooden baton during a violent encounter near...
Spotlight on Transnational Repression as Falun Gong Marks 27 Years of Persecution
WASHINGTON—The fear was in the air as the woman stood in front of a Falun Gong booth in Chinatown in the New York City...
Spotlight on Transnational Repression as Falun Gong Endures 27 Years of Persecution
WASHINGTON—A woman handing out flyers in front of an informational booth in New York City was raising awareness about the ongoing persecution in China...
How Breaking Through China’s Firewall Changed One Activist’s View of Falun Gong
Around 2003, Guo Zhijun obtained a copy of Freegate, software developed by Falun Gong practitioners to bypass the Chinese Communist Party’s internet censorship. Operated...
Lai Warns of Beijing ‘Red Terror’ as Taiwan Weighs Safeguards
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te called on the island’s governing party on July 19 to unite against what he described as communist China’s “red terror,”...
US State Department Expresses Concerns Over Papua New Guinea’s Closure of Taiwan Office
The U.S. State Department has expressed concern over Papua New Guinea’s decision to close Taiwan’s representative office, calling it another instance of China’s “intimidation...
China’s Harassment of Taiwan’s Frontline Outpost Numbs Public, Masking Escalation Risks: Experts
The Chinese regime’s repeated incursions around Taiwan’s outlying territories are eroding Taipei’s sovereignty and inducing a public threat fatigue that could cloud future escalations,...
Chinese State-Owned Firms Ordered to Replace Claude Code With Domestic AI Tools
A Chinese state-owned enterprise in eastern Shandong Province has ordered employees to report their use of Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, Claude Code, and replace...