New penalties of up to three times unpaid contributions, combined with plans to identify uninsured individuals through government data, have sparked frustration among Chinese workers and small-business owners already struggling with rising costs and weak incomes.

An alarming new U.S. study reveals unusual Chinese research vessel activity near critical undersea cables. Combined with China's development of deep-sea cutting technology and previous cable damage incidents, the findings raise an urgent question: Is Beijing preparing to disrupt global communications in a future conflict?

In addition, deep within the CCP’s strategic thinking, the ultimate judgment that “there will eventually be a war with the United States” has always existed.

And the CCP has been actively making real-world preparations for that possibility.

CCP leader Xi Jinping has ordered officials to build a “safer” China, issuing his first major domestic directive after returning from a state visit to the United States.

Exclusive information: Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, who is now rumored to be missing or to have fled China, and several senior Huawei executives were questioned many times by the CCP’s military disciplinary authorities over military procurement issues.

China’s Communist Party has expelled senior military figures Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli from the Party and the armed forces, accusing them of serious disciplinary and legal violations, including forming “cliques and factions.”

A day before new nationwide exit-entry rules take effect, people inside China’s state system say their workplaces have already widened a quieter campaign: employees at government offices, state banks, state-owned firms, public hospitals and schools are being told to declare not only their own passports, but those of their families — including foreign passports and overseas residence papers.

Missouri’s $24.5 billion default judgment against Chinese defendants over early COVID-19 personal-protective-equipment hoarding has moved from paper into the enforcement stage. Institutions that for years refused to appear in U.S. court have now hired American counsel to try to vacate the award and, at home, have filed a countersuit.

At the same time, this disaster has raised an even more frightening question: Could a similar disaster happen again in the future, especially in the Yarlung Tsangpo region?

As Chinese Communist Party authorities prepare to implement revised Exit-Entry Administration Regulations on September 15, reports have emerged from ports of entry across China of travelers being stopped from leaving the country. Some Chinese citizens reportedly discovered only while applying for passports or passing through border control that they had already been placed on exit restriction blacklists.