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Dual‑use ports, runways, and telecom lines in 10 Pacific nations could help the PLA leapfrog U.S. defenses and threaten shipping between Hawaii and Australia.

Every year since COVID-19, a wave of respiratory infections has swept across China.

The Chinese regime’s control of large databases enabled the leaking of private information, and it’s hitting party officials like a ‘boomerang,’ analysts say.

The former foreign minister accused a nonprofit of promoting communism, which is illegal in Malaysia.

While the Chinese Communist Party already censors the internet, anyone can tap into radio waves, an expert says.

Communist ideology fundamentally conflicts with private ownership, but businesses bring in the money, putting regime leadership in a bind.

Experts say possible reasons include weakened immunity, vaccination side effects, stress, and other infectious diseases.

What the authorities really want to investigate is human bird flu infections in southern China, according to one expert.

An expert called it ‘very irresponsible’ that Beijing hasn’t provided details on the severity and location of the cases.

The crises are rooted in the regime’s structural problems, which the CCP can’t solve, an expert says.

NGOs such as Freedom House play an important role in supplementing U.S. government agencies for international advocacy of human rights, an expert said.

Espionage is a blanket crime used by the Chinese regime to silence journalists in China, according to Reporters Without Borders.

‘There are very few people on the streets now; it’s very quiet,’ one resident in Shijiazhuang said.

Since the 2003 SARS epidemic, the Chinese regime’s approach to health crises has remained unchanged, a doctor told The Epoch Times.

Adding to the troubling trend, China’s birth rate is staying low, while divorce rates are rising.

Experts say the Chinese regime’s censorship is killing the popular genre with a market of $5 billion.

Observers say the real number of protests is much higher, as most information is blocked by the Chinese regime’s pervasive censorship apparatus.

Three of the five reservoirs have been emptied, which a hydrologist said indicates serious problems.

The incident is one of the spate of tragic events that have occurred across China in recent months.

‘We must not forget the people of China and their fight for access to information,” said Sen. Ben Cardin.