2025 Issue 35

In The Atlantic, Michael Schuman describes the surreal nature of life in Xi Jinping’s China and a Stanford student describes in the Times of London how a PRC agent tried to recruit her on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.

Bloomberg reveals the extent of Xi Jinping’s purge of senior Chinese military leaders as the Party’s supreme leader becomes more and more paranoid. 

Xi Jinping plans to host the world’s worst dictators and human rights abusers in Beijing for an Orwellian celebration of the “anti-fascist war.”

Mexico agrees to raise tariffs on Chinese imports and the Washington Post editorial page adds to the criticism of the Trump Administration’s unilateral surrender on advanced AI chip export controls.