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DECODING: Beijing Accuses Lai of "Escalation" After a Defensive Drill
After the two-day resilience drill led in early July 2026 by more than 370 Taiwanese officials, China's Taiwan Affairs Office responded by directly accusing…
DECODING: Beijing Sends Nuclear Bombers to Encircle Taiwan
On July 3, 2026, at the exact moment the Taiwanese resilience drill was wrapping up, China launched a new "joint combat-readiness patrol" around Taiwan.
FACT-CHECK: Taiwan Rehearses Its Worst Nightmare, a Combined Quake and Chinese Blockade
In early July 2026, more than 370 Taiwanese government and military officials shut themselves in a crisis room for two days to rehearse the…
COLUMN: China Evacuates 130,000 as Two Typhoons Strike in a Single Week
It took only a few days for China to tumble from one disaster straight into another. Just as authorities were still counting the dead…
ANALYSIS: Super Typhoon Bavi takes aim at Taiwan and China after a week from hell
Super typhoon Bavi is heading directly toward Taiwan and the Chinese coast, according to Bloomberg, with sustained winds reaching roughly 162 kilometers per hour,…
OPEN LETTER: To the 17 dead of Hubei, swept away by a sky gone mad
I am writing you this open letter because numbers alone no longer suffice to tell what happened in China's Hubei province. Seventeen dead.
PROFILE: Maysak, the storm that redrew the face of southern China
Tropical Storm Maysak was, on the meteorological record, only a modest-strength system compared to the monsters that regularly cross the Pacific.
REPORT: A dam breaks in Hengzhou, China, as death toll reaches 26
On July 7, 2026, the city of Hengzhou, in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region of southern China, lived through one of the worst weather…
The Qing dynasty ruled history's most populous empire
The Qing dynasty, founded by conquerors from Manchuria, ruled China from 1644 until its collapse in 1912. At its peak, in the