2025 Issue 34

Another senior PRC diplomat disappears suggesting that Xi cannot rely on either his diplomatic corps or his military leadership after dozens of officials, often hand-picked by Xi, face scrutiny.

Trivium China releases an explainer video on the macro-challenges facing the Chinese economy and how the Chinese Communist Party does not appear capable of handling the problems.

The Financial Times reveals a network of Iranian, Russian, Swiss, and PRC actors wo have been conspiring for years to smuggle Iranian, and later Russian, oil to the PRC.

After crushing organized pro-democracy groups in Hong Kong, the CCP has turned its Hong Kong proxies on cracking down on “soft resistance”, going after book shops, musicians and regular citizens who do not enthusiastically embrace the CCP’s domination of the city.

ProPublica uncovers more details into Microsoft’s compromise of U.S. Department of Defense data by concealing its IT workers and researchers in the PRC.