China hits back at Trump with 34% tariff on U.S. imports
Combined with 20% in other levies that Trump has imposed on Chinese goods since returning to office in January, the total U.S. tariff on some Chinese goods is at least 54%.
China’s 6th Gen Warplanes Set To Outgun USAF
For the first time since World War II, it seems all but certain that if it came to a clash in the skies over the Pacific, the US has entered a period in which it will be outgunned.
China intensifies arms race with US with new spy drone, nuclear supercarrier in Indo-Pacific
China is currently building its fourth aircraft carrier, its biggest yet. At an expected 120,000 tonnes, when completed the nuclear powered carrier will dwarf the USS Gerald R Ford (America’s biggest warship) and HMS Queen Elizabeth (Britain’s biggest)
Truth Is on the Sharp End of the Bayonet
Hua Bin details the accelerating pace of Chinese military-technological development
China building world’s biggest military base in prep for US war
China is constructing a military command centre ten times larger than Pentagon that will protect top leaders in the event of a nuclear war
China’s DeepSeek AI Moves the Capital of Tech from Palo Alto to Hangzhou
Cheaper, more adaptable and more transparent, DeepSeek is a nuclear bomb detonated in the heart of Silicon Valley. It is a straight-up challenge to America’s tech Brahmins who thought their reign would last forever. Mike Whitney explains
China’s DeepSeek Bombshell Rocks Trump’s $500B AI Boondoggle
The line between our historic reality and science fiction has already been crossed just as the probability that our own creation, AI, is likely “to become an actor, not just a factor” in the existential challenges faced by our species. Mike Whitney explains
China’s invasion barges are a sure sign that war is coming
Weighing in at 400,000 tons or so, China has now built itself the world’s second-largest amphibious force after the U.S. Navy’s, The one obvious reason to develop this capability is Taiwan
Washington’s Attempts to Bully China Will Only Backfire
Mike Whitney on how China is surging ahead and how U.S. efforts to contain its growth are likely to be counter-productive
NATO’s Worst “Nightmare,” Xi’s Missile Reaches Europe As Serbia Deploys China’s FK-3 System | CLRCUT
A dramatic and profound strategic realignment is taking place within Europe, as Moscow aligned Serbia takes delivery of advanced new Chinese air defence systems
Report: China ‘Waging a Full-on Assault on Christians’ with High-Tech Surveillance State
The Chinese “house church” movement is a group believed to include millions of Christians who refuse to worship at communist-controlled legal churches, where the teachings of Jesus are almost entirely absent. Instead, they convene at home to pray and study the Bible, which is illegal.
Washington Deploys Proxies to Xinjiang to Scuttle China’s Giant Infrastructure Project
Mike Whitney on how Washington is using Uyghur separatists to preserve America’s global supremacy