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Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), a non-governmental human rights organization, released a report on Wednesday that found over 1,500 people have been arbitrarily detained by the Chinese Communist government over the past six years in a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry declared its support on Wednesday for Egypt’s attempt to galvanize the Arab world into supporting a plan for the reconstruction of Gaza, intended to prevent President Donald Trump from taking the territory over.

Two South Korean fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs outside their training range during a live-fire drill on Thursday, striking civilian homes and injuring 15 people.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Wednesday announced a 7.5 percent increase in military spending for 2025, ostensibly due to increasing tensions with the United States and Taiwan.

China’s National People’s Congress and the advisory Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference have begun their annual full sessions.

Singapore police arrested three people on Thursday for allegedly smuggling chips from American tech giant Nvidia to China, throwing a spotlight on China’s efforts to obtain advanced components in defiance of export restrictions – and showing just how diligently American companies are working to enforce those restrictions.

The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson arrived in the South Korean port of Busan on Sunday, the first carrier visit to a foreign port since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term.

President Donald Trump predicted Monday that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s (TSMC) $100 billion investment in the United States would create 20,000-25,000 jobs.

Teleperformance SE, the world’s largest call center operator, is implementing an AI system designed to soften the accents of English-speaking Indian workers in real-time to enhance customer understanding and satisfaction.

The Taliban terrorist organization’s top spokesman accused President Donald Trump of spreading “misinformation” on Sunday in response to his claim that the Chinese government was occupying the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, a former American site.

North Korea conducted one of its periodical saber-rattling cruise missile tests on Wednesday, launching two missiles from its west coast under the supervision of dictator Kim Jong-un.

The United States on Thursday condemned Thailand for deporting 40 Uyghurs to China, despite fears they could face imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued an impassioned condemnation of President Donald Trump on Friday after he announced a plan to impose an extra ten-percent tariff on Chinese goods in March in response to China’s role in the American fentanyl crisis.

India’s Mines Secretary V.L. Kantha Rao said on Thursday that Indian mining companies are exploring possible investments in Zambia, Australia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Attorney General of Panama Luis Carlos Gómez said on Wednesday that a decades-long contract awarded to Panama Ports Company (PPC), a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, to operate two ports in the Panama Canal is “unconstitutional,” local outlets reported.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov praised “healthy thoughts” from Secretary of State Marco Rubio in his Breitbart News interview.

The South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) warned on Thursday that it had evidence suggesting Russia had introduced a second infusion of North Korean troops to the Ukrainian war theater in early February, replacing the estimated hundreds already killed on the front lines.

South Korea’s birth rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, as a steep demographic decline was halted by a surge in new marriages. Meanwhile, Japan hit its lowest birth rate ever, continuing nine straight years of population decline.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry warned on Thursday that any attempts divide the governments of China and Russia are “doomed to fail,” an apparent response to Secretary of State Marco Rubio telling Breitbart News in an exclusive this week that the Trump administration is trying to avoid a situation in which Russia is “completely dependent on the Chinese because we have cut them off.”

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry scrambled land, air, and sea forces on Wednesday after Chinese ships launched a live-fire exercise near the Taiwanese coast without warning.

A newly inaugurated, allegedly state-of-the-art international airport in one of Pakistan’s most restive regions appears to have no significant plane traffic in it since its first arrival in late January, multiple reports revealed this week, and has left locals confused and concerned for what it means about their future.

Hackers linked to the North Korean dictatorship pulled off the biggest heist in history last week, looting an estimated $1.5 billion in cryptocurrency from Bybit, an exchange based in Dubai.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump and his administration are aiming to peel Russia off of China in much the same way former President Richard Nixon, during the Cold War, peeled China off of the Soviet Union.

Foreign companies are pulling out of China’s weakened markets, demonstrating a clear lack of confidence in the Communist regime’s ability to stabilize the economy and avert a financial collapse.

The Panama Canal Authority refuted a U.S. accusation that Panama Canal staff must go through Chinese security to get to their place of work.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping held a telephone conversation on Monday in which they reportedly discussed the efforts of “relevant parties” to “make positive efforts to defuse the Ukraine crisis.”

Taliban terrorists arrested Peter and Barbie Reynolds, British nationals and longtime residents of Afghanistan, and cut off communication with their families in Britain, relatives lamented to the BBC on Sunday.

On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that she told TikTok’s CEO, “it’s all okay, as long as you end up with Americans owning you. If American companies and people own you, then

Taiwanese Minister of Education Cheng Ying-yao announced on Thursday that the island’s universities will no longer be allowed to collaborate with three Chinese institutions because they are affiliated with the United Front Work Department, the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda bureau.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the jihadist terror organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), met with China ambassador to Syria this weekend, the first time he has personally devoted time to his country’s relationship with Beijing.

A Chinese naval cruiser fired live rounds Saturday during a task force drill in the sea between Australia and New Zealand, government officials said, prompting an alert to commercial air traffic.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a closed-door meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Istanbul on Friday, taking another step toward establishing Turkey as one of Ukraine’s most devoted supporters amid a public feud between Zelensky and President Donald Trump.

Russian military aircraft were detected in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Tuesday and Wednesday, NORAD reported.

The Chinese government held a meeting with Bolivia’s top diplomat this week as part of a campaign to undo the damage to its reputation and interests in Latin America caused by Secretary of State Marco Rubio making his first international tour in the position to countries there vulnerable to Chinese influence.

The Taliban junta on Thursday announced it has withdrawn Afghanistan from the Rome Statute, the treaty that created the International Criminal Court (ICC), and no longer recognizes the jurisdiction of the ICC.

China warned Friday it intends to hold naval “live-fire” naval drills in the waters off Australia’s east coast as commercial flights were told to steer clear of the area.

City officials in St. Petersburg, Russia, announced on Thursday that the city’s closed-circuit TV (CCTV) surveillance cameras will be upgraded with “ethnic recognition software” to “prevent social tension” by monitoring “the formation of ethnic enclaves.”