Indo-Pacific
Eight Years in the Dark: Chinese Hacking Campaign Reached NASA, the Fed, and the US Senate
The United States announced on 26 August that it had shut down a Chinese hacking campaign that had burrowed into NASA,...
China’s Hypersonic Gliders Can Now Shoot at Aircraft — And America’s Radar Planes Are the Target
China has developed hypersonic glide vehicles that can launch air-to-air weapons in mid-flight, Bloomberg reported on 24 August, citing a person...
From China’s Richest Man to a Prison Cell: The Evergrande Founder’s Life Sentence Explained
A court in Shenzhen has jailed the man who built China's largest property empire. On August 20, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's...
A Ship Sails North, and the China-Russia Arctic Shipping Route Comes Alive
A Chinese container ship left the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan on August 15 and turned north, opening what its operator calls the...
Explainer: How China Plans to Shape What the World’s AI Knows
China has published a plan to supply data for training the world's artificial intelligence. Western analysts warn that Communist Party narratives...
Chinese National Jailed Over Photography Near B-2 Bomber Base
A US judge has sentenced a Chinese national to six months in prison after he returned to Whiteman Air Force Base...
Ten Missiles, One Message: North Korea Rebuffs Trump as Joint Drills End
North Korea fired approximately 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Thursday evening, in a launch that landed squarely in...
Trump Orders Cuts US-South Korea Joint Military Drills, Citing Iran Snub and Kim Jong-un “Relationship”
President Donald Trump has ordered a sharp reduction in US-South Korea joint military exercises, announcing the decision just hours before this...
The Gatekeeper’s Secret: US Bans Professor Tao Li Over China Talent Plan Ties
For more than two years, Tao Li helped decide which American computer scientists got federal research money. All the while, US...
650 Feet From the Oval Office: CCP Intelligence Figure Buys Building Overlooking the White House
A senior Chinese Communist Party figure with a long record in Chinese policing and intelligence now owns a historic office building...
US–Japan Deep Sea Mine to Break China’s Rare Earth Grip
Washington and Tokyo are preparing to dig the deepest mine ever attempted — almost six kilometres beneath the Pacific, in mud...
China, Indonesia Hold First Joint Naval Drill East of Taiwan
China and Indonesia sailed two warships together this week in the Pacific waters east of Taiwan — the first time China...
