2026 Issue 18

One of the Wall Street Journal’s long-time China-based reporters describes why she is leaving the PRC and Singapore’s RSIS publishes a report on why countries in Southeast Asia are “China-shedding.”

Neil Thomas and Shengyu Wang describe the rationale behind Xi’s forever purge as we get news this week that two of the PRC’s former defense ministers received death sentences for corruption and that they have been granted a two-year reprieve.

The PRC and corrupt Zambian officials appear to be working together to cover up a massive environmental disaster that poisoned Zambia’s major water supply last last.

Seven nations, including Japan for the first time, participated in a U.S.-Philippine-led military exercise last week which demonstrated how countries could fight together to repel PRC aggression. The United States led this large and public exercise even as the U.S. President prepared to travel to Beijing.