2025 Issue 30

The Chinese Communist party starts a new cycle of hostage taking by holding three foreigners and tightens export restrictions on EV and battery technology even as Washington, Tokyo and Brussels try to find compromises with the PRC.

A writer in Taiwan expresses anger at what the Chinese Communist Party is doing to the Taiwanese people with their threats of military strikes, invasion and destruction. 

Alex Travelli from the New York Times describes the tightrope that India walks between the United States and the PRC given its membership within the BRICS grouping.