When Illinois state officials unveiled a $2 billion battery project in 2023 with great fanfare, to be built in a village of roughly 9,000 people, local residents who opposed it faced a battle against more than a multinational company. Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration welcomed the Gotion Illinois project with a state incentive package valued at … Read more
A Chinese national has been sentenced to five years in prison in Florida over his role in a tech support scam. U.S. District Judge Thomas Barber sentenced Cao Jiaan to 60 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay more than $2 million in restitution on July 31, … Read more
A Chinese university has come under scrutiny after an alleged internal safety agreement surfaced online alongside claims from a self-identified graduate that students were required to work on farms and in food-processing factories as part of a mandatory academic program while being denied basic workplace protections. The controversy centers on Xinjiang Agricultural University, which allegedly … Read more
Chinese state media has featured footage of the country’s latest hypersonic anti-ship missile launched from a smaller destroyer, which it has said is “changing the rules in the western Pacific.” In a trailer aired on July 29 for a military documentary, China’s state-run CCTV’s military Channel showed the launch of its YJ-20 from a Type … Read more
At the end of 2024, roughly 180 million Chinese residents were receiving benefits under China’s basic pension program for rural and non-working urban residents, with recipients collecting an average of just 246 yuan ($36) per month—roughly 8 yuan ($1.18) per day. Chinese scholars interviewed by The Epoch Times said such payments leave many rural seniors … Read more
As small towns across the United States reckon with power-hungry data centers springing up, the Chinese Communist Party is muddying the waters and sowing division. By tapping into the tensions around water usage, power demands, and environmental costs, the regime is trying to widen the wedge using an old playbook: influence peddling and propaganda. There’s … Read more
The COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China rose from a low level to a medium prevalence level in the week of July 13 to July 19, according to the latest data released by Chinese health authorities. The highest number of infections occurred among those aged 15 to 59, rather than among children and the elderly, according … Read more
Floodwaters submerged homes, shops, vehicles, roads, and farmland across parts of southern China after Typhoon Noul struck Guangdong Province, leaving residents trapped in buildings, villages cut off, and the full casualty toll unclear. Noul, known in China as “Hongxia,” made landfall near Pinghai Town in Huizhou’s Huidong County at about 3:50 a.m. on July 26. … Read more
The Chinese regime has tightened export controls and sanctioned seven U.S. entities in retaliation for the Trump administration’s trade curbs aimed at addressing national security and forced labor concerns. The strengthened export restrictions target drones, their key components, and related technologies destined for the U.S. market, the regime’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement … Read more
Three Chinese state-owned telecommunications carriers kept equipment, data center cages, and live network connections across the United States years after federal regulators denied or revoked their authority to provide certain services, a bipartisan House investigation found. China Telecom Americas, China Unicom Americas, and China Mobile International (USA) remained operationally tied to parent companies in China … Read more