China Launch Chang’e-5 to Bring Back First Lunar Geology Samples in 45 Years
PICTURED: The Chang’e-4 lunar lander gathers information from the far side of the moon. The Chang’e-5 lander which was…
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State Department Green Lights Another Arms Sale to Taiwan Hoping China Will Respond
PICTURED: A CATM-84K Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER), being mounted on an aircraft in an American airbase on…
Reagan-Era Cables on Taiwan Show How the U.S. Continues to ‘Lose’ China
August 31st, 2020. A batch of declassified Ronald Reagan-era cables show how America’s policy towards selling arms to Taiwan…
Russia and US Must Reduce Nuclear Arms to Chinese Levels for Beijing to Join Arms Control Agreements
Director-general of the arms control department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fu Cong, told reporters in Beijing…
New 2021 Defense Budget Standouts – The Indo-Pacific and Hypersonic Missiles
PICTURED: The X-51 Waverider prototype hypersonic glide missile. The latest National Defense Authorization (NDA) for 2021 contains a lot…
India – China Border Clashes Deadliest Confrontation Since 1975
PICTURED: The Doda River in the disputed Landakh Province, Kashmir. LADAKH, Kashmir, India. Monday June 15th, 2020. Clashes between…
Banning the Wildlife Trade Could be Good News for Certain Animals, and a Death Sentence for Millions of Humans
Kenya. January 2019. PICTURED: Black rhino in Masai Mara’s green season. Photo credit: Kandukuru Nagarjun. CC 2.0 After research…
House Democrats Move to Prevent the Removal of Any U.S. Troops From 53 African Countries
WASHINGTON D.C. March 4th, 2020. Early reports of a bill slated to be introduced in the House that would…
Earth May Have Just Produced a New Species of Wolf
PICTERED: A Himalayan wolf triggers one of Geraldine Werhahn’s camera traps As high as 4,000 meters (20,000 feet) above…
Qian Shan National Park is a Must-See in the Northeast of China
In the heart of China’s Rustbelt region of Liaoning, Qian Shan Mountains National Park in the northeast of the…
Chinese Scientist Sentenced to 3-Years for Gene-Editing Fetuses
November 25, 2018. PICTURED: Chinese biomedical researcher Dr. Jiankui He. Photo credit The He Lab. CC 3.0 December 30th,…
Maximum Pressure On Iran Pushes Her Away From Negotiations, Not Towards Them
Washington’s maximum pressure campaign on Iran has forced her to seek allies and aid from countries the United States…
Secret Documents Show That Lofty Ideals And International Authority Can’t Save Uighurs
Washington, July 2009. PICTURED: American Uighurs rally outside the White House in an anti-China protest following the Urumqi riots…
Why Are China And Africa Building Giant Walls Of Trees?
Desertification – a phenomenon that for the longest time was associated with deserts, is actually much more to do…
Since 2011, Elephant Poaching Has Fallen Dramatically
According to a new paper published in Science, the numbers of elephants killed illegally in Africa dropped from 10%…
Adventuring in the Qian Shan Mountains
An older, distant China is, as I mentioned earlier, quite hard to find here in the Northeast. But this…