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.
China to spend 7% more on defence amid a widening graft purge in the military The Straits Times
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China Ousts 3 Generals From Top Political Advisory Body Amid Sweeping Purges NTD News
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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 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.”
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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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.
China military purge taking toll on command and readiness, study finds Reuters
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China’s ‘Space Aircraft Carriers’: Nantianmen Project Could Mean Drone Mothership and a U.S. Military Scrambling to Respond 19FortyFive
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CHINA has been accused of a massive nuclear expansion as well as carrying out secret tests by the US.
The latest accusations come as the United States bids to force Beijing to join a future arms control treaty.
China on Monday urged the United States to cancel unilateral tariffs announced by President Donald Trump after the US Supreme Court struck down many of his measures, ruling he lacked authority under a 1977 law. Trump responded by unveiling new global import duties of up to 15% under different powers.
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Drones are increasingly violating American airspace. We know that tens of thousands of drone sightings on our southern border are connected with the Mexican drug and human trafficking cartels. But dozens of other drone sightings at sensitive military installations suggest hostile nation-state actors, most likely China.
As drone operations in Russia’s war on Ukraine show, the threat is no longer hypothetical — it is active and escalating. Unfortunately, a dangerous combination of bureaucratic inertia and misplaced priorities has left our borders and military installations vulnerable.
Xi Jinping’s Generals Are Hiding in Their Barracks, Afraid They Could Be Purged Next Vision Times
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Signs within China point to instability continuing in the wake of Chairman Xi’s recent purge of an attempted coup that appears to have been led by the-then second most powerful man in China, Zhang Youxia. Zhang was well-respected by the military, and they appear willing to send public signals they continue to support him.
That signal came through their newspaper, the Liberation Army Daily, which featured an article signaling support for an historic figure like Zhang Youxia, Zhang Guotao, who broke with Mao Zedong in the 30s. This was the first of six similar articles released following the reported arrest of Zhang Youxia.
Xi Jinping Has Turned China’s Military Against Him, and the Party’s Own Newspaper Proves It Vision Times
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On Feb. 11, the Liberation Army Daily, the official newspaper of China’s military, published yet another article invoking Zhang Guotao, a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party who broke with Mao Zedong in the 1930s and is remembered in Party mythology as the archetype of treachery and “splitting the Party and the army.” The article accused Zhang Guotao of “carrying out activities to split the Party and the Red Army,” language that transparently targets two recently purged military leaders: Zhang Youxia, the former vice chairman of China’s top military command body (the Central Military Commission), and Liu Zhenli, the former chief of the Joint Staff Department, China’s most senior operational military commander.
This was the sixth such article since Jan.16, the date that online sources say Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli were physically detained, eight days before their purge was officially announced on Jan. 24. All six articles share a revealing pattern: every one of them invokes the historical villain Zhang Guotao, and every one of them avoids mentioning Zhang Youxia or Liu Zhenli by name. The gap between the fury of the rhetoric and the absence of the actual targets’ names speaks volumes about how politically explosive these purges remain.
The six articles, with their dates and titles, are:
Jan. 18: “Courage Is Measured by What You Fear and What You Don’t”
Feb. 2: “Political Army-Building Special: Strong Organizations Make a Strong Army”
Japanese exports climbed 16.8% year on year in January, sharply beating market expectations and growing at their fastest rate since November 2022 as shipments to Asia and Western Europe surged, government data on Wednesday showed.
Growth was higher than December’s 5.1%, and beat Reuters-polled economists’ estimates of 12%.
Value of exports to China, Japan’s largest trading partner, jumped 32%, after rising 5.6% in December at a time when the two countries are locked in a diplomatic standoff over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments over Taiwan.
Chinese Officials Purged for ‘Improper Discussion’ as Xi Tightens Political Discipline Vision Times
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Chairman Xi of China has finally publicly addressed the purge of most of his military leaders and political “allies” in response to what appears to have been a coup attempt by his second-in-command, Zhang Youxia. He addressed the military, stating, “The past year has been unusual and extraordinary, The People’s Army has deepened its political education, effectively addressed various risks and challenges and undergone revolutionary forging in the fight against corruption.”
While Xi has survived the coup, mobilizations within China suggest he has yet to fully restoyre stability. So far, none of the top spots have been replaced by anyone else. The purge leaves the military without seasoned Generals, and one of the few who has experienced combat, Youxia, is among the Generals that have been purged. As of right now, the conditions in China are still fluid by our assessment.
Chinese President Xi Jinping makes rare public reference to recent military purges The Straits Times
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China’s military has grown stronger in the past year in its fight against corruption, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the Chinese armed forces on Feb 11, making a rare public reference to the graft probes linked to the country’s top generals.
China’s two highest-ranked generals have been ensnared in disciplinary probes, with
Mr He Weidong expelled in October 2025
and Mr Zhang Youxia placed under investigation in January, marking one of the most high-profile purges of the Chinese military in decades.
“The past year has been unusual and extraordinary,” Mr Xi told the military in a virtual address.
Spotlight China Why Xi Jinping’s upheaval within the Chinese military is just the beginning Intelligence Online
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Xi’s purges could mean more instability along the border The Indian Express
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DHAKA: The United States is concerned about China’s expanding presence in South Asia and is planning to offer Bangladesh’s next government US and allied defence systems as alternatives to Chinese hardware, Washington’s ambassador to Dhaka told Reuters.
Bangladesh votes in a general election on Thursday (Feb 12) after a Gen Z-led uprising toppled India-allied premier Sheikh Hasina in August 2024. She has since taken refuge in New Delhi, allowing China to deepen its influence in Bangladesh as India’s presence wanes.
China recently signed a defence agreement with Bangladesh to build a drone factory near the India border, worrying foreign diplomats. Bangladesh is also in talks with Pakistan to buy JF-17 Thunder fighter jets, a multi-role combat aircraft jointly developed with China.
The DNC criminal media have chosen to ignore a story about another CCP Biolab discovered in the U.S. The biolab was discovered in Reno, Nevada. It had CCP-related documents in it. The only corporate news outlet that covered the story was ABC News, who omitted any references to the CCP in their report.
They summarized their report, claiming “A law enforcement source has told ABC News they took 1,000 items from the home, including vials of unknown substances, some labeled in Mandarin Chinese. The property manager, Ori Solomon, now under arrest facing both federal and state charges, including disposing of hazardous waste consistent with biological agents. The homeowner is a Chinese national arrested in 2023 after authorities in Reedley, California said he operated an illegal biological lab that was funded by Chinese banks. He’s pleaded not guilty. David, records show that homeowner has two dozen properties that ABC News sources say are now being searched.”
CBS, NBC Nightly Newscasts Still Not Covering Busted Chinese Biolab – newsbusters.org
If an illegal Chinese-adjacent biolab was discovered in a major American city and most of the broadcast network evening news refused to cover it, was there ever really a clandestine biolab to begin with? This is the strategy appearing to be deployed by CBS and NBC so far., as they continue to hide a story with huge national security.
Watch ABC’s report as aired on World News Tonight on Wednesday, February 4th, 2026:
WATCH: @ABCWorldNews is still the only one of the broadcast network nightly newscasts reporting on the clandestine Chinese biolab found in Las Vegas. pic.twitter.com/dd7zasXCb8
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China expels defence officials from legislature amid corruption crackdown South China Morning Post
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