An Underground Industry in Plain Sight Little EnforcementSilencing Those Who Speak Up
Secret Filming of Women Thrives in China as Officials Silence Activists
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Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers
A Times Reporter Goes Inside a Cyberscam Center in a War Zone
Holy moly. Look at these phones. The floor is just littered with SIM cards. We’re in Myanmar. Only weeks after rebel fighters took control of a cyberscam center near the border with Thailand. For years, Chinese criminals have used ordinary office spaces like this in the middle of the jungle to target Americans in elaborate online fraud. OK, here we are, the nerve center of this multibillion-dollar industry that is scamming people all across the world. More than 3,000 people from dozens of countries were once employed here, joining an…
Trump Broke the World Order. Now What?
Adam Tooze The Energy Giants Face Off Dr. Tooze is a professor of history at Columbia University. In the early 1910s, Winston Churchill ordered the conversion of Britain’s giant fleet of dreadnought battleships to oil fuel from coal. In so doing, the story goes, he ushered in the age of oil power. He also effectively anointed the United States — at the time the world’s largest producer of oil — as the 20th century’s natural hegemon. If global competition is inextricably interwoven with technology and energy, how states power themselves…
China’s Clean Energy Push is Powering Flying Taxis, Food Delivery Drones and Bullet Trains
By The New York Times Dec. 17, 2025 Battery-swapping robots for carsLunch from the skyVery rapid transitTaxis that drive themselvesRobot trucks don’t need windowsSubways get a makeover NYT
A Free World Needs a Strong America
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To Outbuild China, America Needs Friends
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How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas?
The mission demanded the utmost secrecy. A team of American climbers, handpicked by the C.I.A. for their mountaineering skills — and their willingness to keep their mouths shut — were fighting their way up one of the highest mountains in the Himalayas. Step by step, they trudged up the razor-toothed ridge, the wind slamming their faces, their crampons clinging precariously to the ice. One misplaced foot, one careless slip, and it was a 2,000-foot drop, straight down. Just below the peak, the Americans and their Indian comrades got everything ready:…
America Can’t Make What the Military Needs
In 2020 the Navy had a simple plan to build its next fleet of small warships, the Constellation class: take a European design and build it in America.In 2020 the Navy had asimple plan to build itsnext fleet of small warships,the Constellation class:buy a European design andbuild it in America. Opinion The Editorial Board make what the Military needs By The Editorial BoardThe editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. At…
Gao Zhen, Detained Chinese Artist, Keeps Creating From Prison
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