2025 Issue 26

Xi Jinping made a surprise announcement that he will skip this year’s BRICS Summit that is set to take place in Brazil this summer.

Under the long-running theme of Chinese Communist Party interference in other countries, Newsweek released new evidence that Governor Newsom’s initiative with the PRC is yet another route for the Chinese Communist Party to exert influence over political decisions in the United States at the sub-national level.  An Indian researcher reveals how the Party has built an apparatus to manipulate Indian public opinion through disinformation and the subversion of certain Indian media outlets.  The Washington Post also released a year-long investigation into how the Chinese Communist Party uses criminal gangs and organized crime to push their geo-political interests across multiple countries.

China Digital Times releases a report on how Chinese dissidents face compulsory “vacations” by Chinese Communist authorities to keep them from speaking out during important annual events.