370,000 People Leave China’s Wealthy Jiangsu–Zhejiang–Shanghai Region in 30 Days Vision Times
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Xi’s Silence on Iran Raises Questions About China’s Global Loyalty Sri Lanka Guardian
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Tencent Is Said to Be Back On Paramount-Warner Bros Deal With Fresh Funding Bloomberg.com
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Sweden and China Strengthen Ties as China Eastern Airlines Resumes Direct Flights Between Stockholm and Shanghai with A330 Travel And Tour World
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China presses Iran for safe oil and gas passage through Strait of Hormuz – report
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Canada’s defence chief Gen. Jennie Carignan said allies are in talks about possibly helping Persian Gulf states defend themselves against bombing from Iran.
Speaking to reporters at a defence and security conference in Ottawa Thursday, Carignan said a meeting is set for early Friday morning to discuss such a proposal among allied militaries and the Canadian Armed Forces would present a recommendation to the government.
“The Gulf states must also indicate what they need,” Carignan said in French. “We are in communication with them to get an idea of the needs because it’s clear that if they don’t need us… we won’t look at options to support them.”
China to inject 300 billion yuan into state banks, deepen reform of state financial firms The Business Times
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In China, after military purges, civilian officials are now targeted Наша Ніва
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China sets lowest economic growth target in 35 years The Times
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Geopolitical analysts have observed that one of the hardest hit casualties of the fall of Iran’s Islamic Republic regime is America’s main competitor, China. Chairman Xi has spent a decade himself, and billions of dollars, cultivating Middle East relations, largely through its major supporter, Iran.
In addition to that, the failure of Chinese war tech to stop the absolute brutalization of Iran and help it mount an effective counter (so far) will cause its current allies and customers to second-guess both its military tech capabilities and its capacity to protect them from American aggression. China was also hoping on Iran’s continued support of radical militant Islam colonizing western countries would continue, accelerating the decline of the West, rendering it a feckless foe.
China Scrambles As U.S Israeli Strike On Iran Upends Xi’s Middle East Strategy Rocky Mountain Voice
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The men in Zhongnanhai do not rattle easily. Decades of patient statecraft, a foreign policy built on studied ambiguity, and an economy engineered to absorb external shocks have granted Beijing’s leadership a remarkable tolerance for turbulence. Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.–Israeli military campaign now dismantling Iran’s military architecture, has produced something unusual in the corridors of Chinese power: visible confusion.
Xi Jinping is scrambling — and that word is not used lightly. For a leader who has built his image on strategic composure and long-horizon thinking, Xi faces an acutely dangerous moment — not because China faces a direct military threat but because every available response to the crisis in the Persian Gulf leads Beijing into a trap of its own contradictions.
I never thought I would say this, but this week has convinced me that the Trump Administration is possibly the first administration in decades to execute a politico-military strategy and shape events rather than just bounce, pinball-like, from one flashing light to another. Bear with me as I lay out what I think is going on, and feel free to excoriate me in the comments if you disagree.
China to spend 7% more on defence amid a widening graft purge in the military The Straits Times
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AI ‘is now at the core of China’s industrial strategy’ 香港電台新聞網
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Is Iran using Chinese missiles against US, Israel? Beijing reacts to reports | World News Hindustan Times
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China Ousts 3 Generals From Top Political Advisory Body Amid Sweeping Purges NTD News
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Eden Schwartz, the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator, said families have played a central role in shaping the celebration.
“Part of my job is helping the students bring their cultural celebrations to life, but I really lean on them to see what they want to do,” she added.
“For the past three years, we’ve had families who’ve really just jumped in and taken control of the event and the boys love it.”
The dumpling workshop was just one of several Chinese New Year events at the school. Students also watched a lion dance performance, learned about the Chinese zodiac and walked through halls decorated with red lanterns.
Why Is Xi Still Purging His Generals? China Leadership Monitor
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China’s ongoing military corruption purges have created serious deficiencies in the command structure of its armed forces and are likely to have affected the readiness of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), according to a leading defence research centre.The purges, led by the Chinese president Xi Jinping, which have spanned the supreme central military commission, theatre commands, weapons procurement, development programmes, and defence academia, are expected to be incomplete, said London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) this week, according to Reuters.
The AI firm says a Chinese official’s activity on the chatbot pointed to wider “cyber special operations” to intimidate both domestic and foreign critics.
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The Justice Department announced Wednesday that a former U.S. Air Force major and longtime fighter pilot has been arrested on charges that he trained Chinese military pilots without authorization.
Gerald Eddie Brown Jr., 65, was taken into custody in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and is expected to appear in federal court on Thursday. Prosecutors allege that beginning around August 2023, Brown worked to arrange combat aircraft training for members of China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force and traveled to China in December 2023 to carry it out.
Federal officials were blunt.
“The United States Air Force trained Major Brown to be an elite fighter pilot and entrusted him with the defense of our Nation. He now stands charged with training Chinese military pilots.”
While Iran engages in fake negotiations to stall, deceive, and lie to the Trump Administration, they announce that they will be buying anti-ship missiles from China. President Trump must stop these asinine negotiations with Iran. Iran’s butchers will never honor an agreement with the U.S, most especially when President Trump leaves office in January 2029. History will not be kind to President Trump if he signs a bad nuke deal with Iran.
Related – ‘Complete game-changer’: Iran close to buying supersonic anti‑ship missiles from China
PRESIDENT TRUMP on IRAN: My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy, but one thing is certain: I will NEVER allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror to have a nuclear weapon.
We have to be strong. It’s called peace through strength. pic.twitter.com/0CPKHtvQDt
— Department of State (@StateDept) February 25, 2026
Trump said that for 47 years the Iranian regime and its proxies “have spread terrorism and hate,” killing thousands of people in the region, including American soldiers and at least 32,000 civilians during protests that erupted last December.
Trump said the Iranian regime has… https://t.co/2T5GODAGZW
The Governor of New York and DNC-CCP party member Kathy Hochul handed New York’s vital data over to the Chinese Communist Party by allowing a country sworn to destroy our power to run their robotaxis, called Waymos, on American streets.
The company, Zeke, is a CCP-approved corporation that manufactures what are essentially street spies that members of the Democrat party appear more than ready to cosign. This, in part, is why this publication refers to the Democrats as the DNC-CCP, for they are frenemies working against the same enemy, America.
Who makes the Waymos flooding American streets? China – theblaze.com
Governor Kathy Hochul recently slowed, but did not stop, Waymo’s march into New York, blocking expansion beyond city limits while leaving the door wide open inside them.
These aren’t simply cars without drivers. Waymo’s robotaxis are mobile intelligence machines. They map infrastructure, catalogue faces, record ambient sound, and track movement patterns across entire cities — continuously and autonomously. Unlike a fixed security camera or an app you can delete, these vehicles move freely through neighborhoods, past hospitals, around government buildings, silently collecting everything in their path. The data never sleeps, and the cars never stop.
China’s First Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier Will Challenge US Sea Power Newsweek
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(LifeSiteNews) – Regular readers of LifeSiteNews, and in fact those who read most independent media, most likely are already aware that the People’s Republic of China, through its Communist Chinese Party’s (CCP) many arms, has been meddling in Canada’s elections, as well as democracy in general, for years.
What may not be as well known is that in Canada’s smallest province, the picturesque Prince Edward Island (PEI), the CCP has been accused of using Buddhist monasteries as money laundering fronts to the tune of half a billion dollars.
Indeed, a report from late last year noted how Buddhist monks and nuns from a group called Bliss and Wisdom showed recent tax filings with about $500 million in assets.
Numerous western media outlets ran an article on February 20, 2026 that claimed to be from an American sympathizer whistleblower from within who saw the arrest of Chairman Xi’s top rival, Zhang Youxia. Analysis of the article reveals this is agit prop aimed at Youxia. It romanticizes his arrest while sprinkling in accusations against him, including claims Youxia committed espionage.
Xi Jinping’s Propaganda Machine Planted a Fake Insider Account to Frame Zhang Youxia Vision Times
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On Feb. 20, just days before the National People’s Congress—the CCP’s rubber-stamp legislature—was set to review “representative qualifications and personnel appointments,” a lengthy article appeared on overseas platforms claiming to reveal the inside story of Zhang Youxia’s arrest. For months, Zhang, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, China’s top military command body, has been involved in a power struggle with CCP general secretary Xi Jinping.
The anonymous author described himself as “a pro-American figure within the CCP’s decision-making apparatus,” someone who “passed through facial-recognition security at the west gate of Zhongnanhai,” the walled compound in central Beijing where China’s top leaders work, “and waited for the elevator in the hallway outside the Politburo meeting room.” He promised to recount “the entire process of Zhang Youxia’s downfall, from start to finish, without omitting a single word.”
The problem is that his account contained far too many words, and far too many conveniently placed details…
Beneath the thriller-style narrative, the article methodically laid out three accusations against Zhang Youxia, each designed to destroy his reputation among different audiences.
Regarding the nuclear espionage charge, the article claimed that on Jan. 8, 2026, Gu Jun—the head of China National Nuclear Corporation, a state-owned enterprise overseeing the country’s entire civilian and military nuclear infrastructure—was taken from his home by operatives of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Party body Xi Jinping has reportedly used to target political rivals under the guise of “anti-corruption” enforcement.
According to the account, Gu held access to the entire nuclear weapons chain, from uranium enrichment to warhead miniaturization to missile reentry guidance. The article claimed that on his third day in custody, Gu broke under interrogation and implicated Zhang, saying he had passed nuclear missile parameters to the Americans through intermediaries, including maneuvering algorithms for the Dongfeng-41’s reentry warheads and trigger sequences for miniaturized fusion devices. The article then quoted Xi slamming his hand on the table and shouting: “This is treason!”
The key phrase in the account was that Gu “confessed to everything.” In the CCP’s extralegal detention system, where suspects are held incommunicado with no legal counsel and subjected to physical and psychological torture, “confessions” are manufactured to order. Everything that followed was designed to be accepted as fact by readers swept along by the narrative.
Panama has moved against two Hong Kong operated ports after pressure by the U.S. to force China out of the canal. Hong Kong was once an independent city-state that has since been taken over by the Chinese Communist party. CK Hutchinson Holdings responded, claiming, “None of the actions by the Panama State were advised to or coordinate with PPC. The Panama State is responsible for harm and damage caused by the confiscatory actions it has taken.”
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Panama authorities have taken control of two ports operated by a subsidiary of a Hong Kong company, assets that came under scrutiny after President Donald Trump claimed China exerted too much influence over their operation.
Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings condemned the Monday takeover in a statement on Tuesday that said the actions of Panama were “unlawful” and raised risks to the operations, health and safety of the Balboa and Critobal terminals that its subsidiary, Panama Ports, has been operating for decades.
“None of the actions by the Panama State were advised to or coordinate with PPC,” Hutchison Holdings said.
“The Panama State is responsible for harm and damage caused by the confiscatory actions it has taken.”
China military purge taking toll on command and readiness, study finds Reuters
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