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The United States is preparing to open a formal inquiry into whether China failed to uphold its obligations under the 2020 “Phase One” trade agreement, marking a renewed effort by Washington to enforce trade commitments and protect American economic interests. The move reflects growing concern that Beijing has not delivered on key promises related to U.S. exports and market reforms.

Asia‑Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea. In remarks ahead of the meeting, President Trump identified several agenda items—including rare earths, soybeans, fentanyl precursors and Taiwan. He also remarked that China “doesn’t want to” invade Taiwan — a message likely aimed at building confidence ahead of the talks.

A landmark agreement between the United States and Australia is poised to reshape the global supply of critical minerals—yet it also brings into sharp relief a longstanding and deeply troubling dimension of resource extraction on the Tibetan Plateau by the People’s Republic of China that has profound human-rights and environmental implications.

China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled nine senior generals in one of the largest and most public crackdowns on military leadership in decades, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of National Defense. The officers—many holding three-star ranks and senior positions within the Central Committee—are accused of serious corruption and have also been stripped of their military titles.

China is weighing the possibility of launching lithium mining operations in one of the planet’s most ecologically delicate regions near Mount Everest ,after uncovering what officials describe as its third-largest reserve of the mineral.

In the stillness of Tibet’s highlands, his name once carried warmth. Tulku Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche was known not only for his teachings but for his quiet acts of compassion. He built schools for nomad children, opened clinics for the poor, and turned his monastery in Gade County into a refuge of both faith and service.

Tibet, often called the “Roof of the World,” is cracking under the weight of China’s relentless drive for concrete and control. Highways slice through sacred valleys, rivers are choked by dam walls, and the mountains themselves tremble with the machinery of extraction. A new report by the Stockholm Centre for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs warns that the plateau has entered a state of “extreme ecological stress.”

The Dutch government has taken the unusual step of intervening in the operations of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned semiconductor manufacturer, after identifying what it described as a potential threat to national and European economic security.

As Beijing moves to tighten export rules on crucial rare-earth elements — the same minerals long extracted from Tibet under state-directed exploitation — the world confronts a stark irony: after decades of selling resources taken from an occupied land, China now seeks to hoard those materials for its own strategic and military ambitions.

The Pukpuk Treaty between Australia and Papua New Guinea is a historic defence pact, marking a formal alliance in a region where much of the strategic contest is currently unspoken. While the treaty does not explicitly name China as an adversary, the timing, content (especially clauses about third parties), and broader geopolitical trends suggest it is part of a broader balancing act in response to growing Chinese influence in the Pacific.