A China-based expert told The Epoch Times that he believes China’s ’reform and opening up' era has effectively reversed under Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
New restrictions on investment, data, and information signal Beijing’s growing focus on security over economic development.
The journalist worked for Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, in the United States.
The network of desert launch platforms host long-range missiles that can reach any U.S. city, but one expert cautioned that missile silos are sometimes fake.
Authorities are ‘increasingly relying’ on back-tax collections, penalties, asset confiscations, and other nontax sources, a Chinese regime insider said.
Relatives say years of persecution, medical neglect, and intimidation continued even after the 70-year-old woman died.
Activists report intensified monitoring, travel bans, and ‘on post’ surveillance as Beijing marks 37 years since the 1989 massacre.
Official data show even China’s wealthiest provinces failed to cover spending in early 2026 as land-sale revenue continued to decline.
Both men and women riders face a lack of childcare resources or the inability to afford kindergartens, residents and workers say.
Regulators are tightening oversight of offshore brokerages and Hong Kong banking channels as concerns grow over capital outflows through financial markets.
Members of the Atajurt rights group say Kazakh police intercepted activists traveling to Astana to discuss Xinjiang-related prosecutions with U.S. officials.
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is set to address the Shangri-La Dialogue on May 30.