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The Sichuan just catapulted a stealth drone off its deck and caught it again. No other ship in the world can carry marines to a beach and do that. Here is why that combination matters....
Vietnam, stagflation, 2008, the pandemic: the country survived them all because the dollar and the military held. Neither can be presumed anymore....
Twelve dead, 309 wounded, and a Chinese online verdict that lands far from where Western headlines do...
A joint letter from Merz and Macron asks Brussels for the power to slam the EU market shut. Chinese commenters see a Europe that keeps hurting itself....
Saudi Arabia has kept its half of a fifty year bargain. The United States has not. What comes next may end the petrodollar either way....
The West is draining its emergency reserves to tame diesel prices before winter. Chinese analysts have done the arithmetic, and they are not reassured....
The president promised to send Iran and its future generations to hell. The damage was not to Iran. It was to the United States....
A pilot tried to bring down a planeload of Israelis over Jordan. In a stalled war and a dead-heat election, everyone read the attack for what it might be made to mean....
Eight points came out of Xi’s state visit. Chinese readers spent the weekend sorting them into the ones that move goods and the ones that move words....
Saudi Arabia wants China to get Iran to rein in the Houthis. Chinese netizens are split on whether to pick up the phone....
The Houthis hit Riyadh for the first time this war. Chinese netizens say Saudi Arabia had it coming, four times over....
Washington says Iran can be isolated. The real world is far messier....
Washington’s gravest problem is not foreign opposition. It is the growing habit of policies that undermine its own power....
Washington has moved to threaten the Chinese institutions that keep Iran solvent. The analysts we track are near-unanimous that it will not work — and that it hastens the very shift it means to prevent.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims a missile strike on Jordan's Al-Azraq Air Base destroyed three U.S. F-35 fighter jets....
The wars in Ukraine and Iran were once treated as separate crises. Increasingly, they look like two fronts in a single, expanding conflict....
Washington may not want cash alone. It may want something even more valuable....
Why Israel’s latest threat is rattling the region again....
A US pilot said Iran’s drones looked “alien.” The real story is even more unsettling....
The real story is not Trump’s headline. It is what it reveals about U.S. military capacity....
The launch footage went viral in China. Here is what military watchers saw in it....
Iran says stop. The U.S. says it is open. The world now has to decide whom to believe....
A whole city woke up choking on a strange smell that disappeared by sunrise....
The West Is Not Marching Toward World War III. It Is Drifting Toward Something Stranger and More Dangerous....
A superpower can survive setbacks. What it may not survive is the widening gap between its image and its actual capacity....
Trump leaves Beijing. Putin announces he is next....
For decades, Washington assumed money, bases and firepower guaranteed control. The confrontation with Iran is exposing how outdated that assumption has become....
Iran’s foreign minister is in Beijing, and the timing is everything....
Iran says it fired. America says nothing was hit. The real story is what happens next....
Israel says it may act again soon. Washington’s latest shipment says a lot....
Wars do not only destroy cities and stockpiles. They destroy myths. This one may have shattered the biggest myth of all....
The UAE walked away from OPEC and crude prices moved fast. Here is why....
Is Tehran chasing peace, or preparing for a harder fight?...
Trump threatened escalation, then extended the ceasefire hours later. So what changed?...
A leaked US plan, moving ships, and a shaky ceasefire. Here’s what Chinese observers are seeing....
Explosions make for compelling images, but spectacle is not strategy. The current conflict may prove how badly power can misread its own limits....
Tokyo calls it modernization. Critics call it remilitarization....
What looks like traffic management may actually be a power play with global consequences....
For years, Washington treated Iran as a weaker regional power. This war is exposing how costly that miscalculation may be....
The war in Ukraine exposed the strain on U.S. power. A conflict involving Iran may be showing just how far that erosion has already gone....
This was not a peace deal. It was a tactical pause dressed as one....
Diplomatic caution has become a form of denial. The world knows what is driving this crisis, yet still refuses to say it plainly....
The US stumbled in the Middle East. Now, China and Russia are stepping in. Discover what Zhihu users are saying....
This is not just an Iran story. It is an energy and China story too....
Shipping has stalled again in Hormuz. The global ripple effects could be huge....
21 hours of talks, no deal, and Hormuz is back at the center of the crisis....
Iran says the US agreed. Washington has not confirmed. So, what is really going on?...
The headlines say pause. The region says prepare for round two....
One deleted post. One huge signal. What is Iran really saying?...
Fake paperwork, bad bolts, fatal consequences. Inside the collapse report....
Iran says it won. Trump says peace is coming. The facts are much murkier....
CIPS just surged to a new high. Here’s why global money is suddenly paying attention to China....
Washington says success. Tehran says failure. The truth may be both....
Why China Just Issued an Emergency Alert for Apple Users...
Iran says it was not behind the Riyadh embassy strike. So who was?...
This crisis is becoming more than a regional war. It is testing whether the world can restrain powers addicted to escalation....
Tail markings, debris, and one big question: what really went down?...
Is the US emptying the Pacific to fight Iran? Chinese OSINT trackers just spotted highly unusual naval movements....
The Next Gulf War? Chinese Netizens Decode the US Military Buildup in the Middle East...
Why 40% of young Chinese have stopped posting, plus a bizarre ritual in Foshan....
With housing prices in Tier 1 cities out of reach and the infamous "age 35 layoff" curse looming, why do millions of young Chinese continue to flock to Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen? They know they will likely never buy a home or gain residency. They know they might eventually be forced to leave. Yet, the consensus from a massive online debate this week is clear. The hometown is not a sanctuary. It is a trap.
While Gates may have hoped for a warm reception, Chinese social media users on platforms like Zhihu have been less than forgiving. The prevailing sentiment is not one of awe but of suspicion. Netizens have pointed out the convenience of his timing. With legal and social pressure mounting in the United States, China represents a friendly environment where his status as an "old friend" grants him a certain level of immunity from aggressive questioning.
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View on Telegram →Solomon Islands PM faces no-confidence motion from cabinet colleague SYDNEY, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale faces his first no-confidence motion after Minister of Home Affairs Manasseh Maelanga filed a notice of motion on Saturday afternoon, the Solomon Star reported. Maelanga is part of the Government for Reform, Empowerment, Accountability and Transformation (GREAT) Coalition under the leadership of Wale. Wale was sworn in as the Solomon Islands' prime minister in May 2026 after he was elected by members of Parliament, succeeding Jeremiah Manele, who was removed from office earlier in the month after Parliament passed a motion of no-confidence. The Solomon Star quoted Clerk to Parliament Jefferson Halu as saying that the notice will lapse on Sept. 6 and it can be moved thereafter if Parliament, which is currently on adjournment and will resume on Sept. 7, accepts it. This means that the motion of no-confidence can be moved when it is put on notice during that week, according to the media. ■ 2026-08-29 21:55:00 [Source: Xinhua] [Full Text]
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China and the United States should earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, and remove disruptions and overcome obstacles to high-level exchanges between the two countries, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday, according to a press release issued by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday.
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