2025 Issue 19

Xi Jinping has been purging his military of senior leaders, this leads to questions about the PRC military’s reliability.

In an ironic way, Putin and Xi portray the United States, not themselves as the “fascist forces” threatening the international order. 

The U.S. overhauls its AI chip controls even as evidence mounts that Huawei has built an impressive semiconductor manufacturing base under the existing controls.

The PRC hides data that would show how badly its economy is performing.