Climate Change and Russia Spell Trouble for NATO Up North
As polar ice melts, Russia, already a major Arctic power, wants to make the region its own. China has ambitions for a “Polar Silk Road.” And NATO is embracing Finland…
Debris from a Chinese space rocket is crashing toward earth: Report
Debris from a Chinese rocket is set to crash to Earth some time over the next few days, with the potential for wreckage to land across a wide swathe of…
U.S. Officials Grow More Concerned About Potential Action by China on Taiwan
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has grown increasingly anxious this summer about China’s statements and actions regarding Taiwan, with some officials fearing that Chinese leaders might try to move against…
Xiao Jianhua, Chinese Canadian Billionaire, on Trial in China
More than five years after his mysterious disappearance from a luxury hotel in Hong Kong, a Chinese Canadian billionaire and onetime trusted financier to China’s political elite has been put…
Chinese spacecraft acquires images of entire planet of Mars
China's Tianwen-1 successfully reached the Red Planet in February 2021 on the country's inaugural mission there. An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft has acquired imagery data covering all of Mars, including visuals…
How China Is Policing the Future
The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere, on street corners and subway ceilings, in hotel lobbies…
With Eye On China, G7 To Announce New Measures On Russia Over Ukraine War
Washington: Leaders at the upcoming G7 summit in Germany will announce new measures aimed at pressuring Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, a senior US official said Wednesday. "We will…
The flaws in China’s nuclear power drive
Under Mao Zedong, China’s focus was fully on nuclear weapons. Buoyed by the success in nuclear weapon production, in 1970 Zhou Enlai proposed a turn to nuclear electricity generation. That…