2026 Issue 39

This week, Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong had his 30^th birthday in prison where the Chinese Communist Party is holding him out of fear that his message would inspire other young Chinese to demand political change in the PRC.

The Wall Street Journal published a report about how the PRC is aiding the Houthis in building a medium range ballistic missile that could threatened much of the Middle East and Emily Fang discusses her new book about Uyghurs in Syria with The Wire China.

The House Select Committee on the CCP released their findings about research security and how U.S. universities push back against reasonable reforms to their collaboration with adversarial PRC research institutions.

The PRC’s historic export surge is undermining the economies of the Global South, including South Africa, one of the CCP’s closest partners.  As Bloomberg reveals, Chinese goods are forcing the shutdown of South African factories and putting South African citizens out of work.

Charles Parton details Xi Jinping’s efforts to promote the CCP’s model of authoritarian rule to the rest of the world.