China

It goes by an innocuous name – “Integrated Joint Operations Platform” (IJOP) – but it’s one of the most sinister components of China’s surveillance state, managing what has been described as a genocide against the Uighurs. The IJOP combines multiple systems of repression – location, messages, contacts, social media and other data from phones, together with information from checkpoints, cameras and biometric records. It then flags “suspicious” individuals for detention and forced labor. Now leading US universities have been accused of extensive collaboration with Chinese laboratories which develop technology that may be deployed or adapted for use in this system. The accusations come in a report from Strategy Risks, a

There’s something deeply disingenuous about Newsom’s endless climate crowing

The President says the battleship will return as the centerpiece of his new Golden Fleet

The summit with Xi will cap what’s been an absolutely delightful Asian invasion for Trump

Countries deemed ‘vulnerable’ to climate change would receive payments

The plan would be to set down a placeholder nuclear reactor and then declare an exclusion zone

Politics is personal. And the psychodrama is exhausting, after all