Day: November 25, 2025

Benjamin Blandin, a French scholar and associate researcher at the Korea Institute of Maritime Strategy, raised a key point at a South China Sea conference. He revealed that while China claims to have 400 naval ships, only around 120 are truly capable of long-range operations, after accounting for maintenance and training. Blandin’s statement highlights a critical gap in China’s naval capabilities, exposing that the Chinese navy cannot simultaneously maintain global presence, handle multiple conflicts, and remain combat-ready, despite official claims to the contrary. This discrepancy is becoming increasingly evident in the South China Sea.

China’s real estate market is facing a bizarre twist: banks are bypassing auctions to seize and sell repossessed homes directly at steep discounts, dubbed “bank direct-supply housing.” This year, surges in listings—up to 25,000 from rural credit unions—signal desperate self-rescue amid soaring bad loans. Smaller banks, hit hardest by the property slump, can’t wait for recovery; they’re dumping assets to survive, ignoring regs meant to curb speculation.Yet this fire sale risks shattering price floors, clashing with Beijing’s stabilization push via rate cuts and eased rules. Government can’t bail out thousands of small lenders like in the ’90s—it’s triaging big banks while letting the rest fend off collapse. Key takeaway: this isn’t fleeting; it’s deleveraging’s painful dawn, with housing prices far from bottomed. Watch for broader financial tremors.

The Philippines is preparing for a Chinese invasion. Good news from the Solomon Islands. Alice Guo is detained. British billionaire Sir Christopher Anthony Hohn was giving money to far left groups in the US tied to the Chinese Communist Party. And a billion dollars of weapons for Taiwan! That and more on this week’s China news headlines.

Tensions are rising once again in the South China Sea as the U.S. and the Philippines move forward with a groundbreaking new energy cooperation pact, setting the stage for a major geopolitical shift in the region. This video breaks down how the agreement impacts offshore oil and gas exploration, regional security, maritime rights, and China’s rapid response to the development.We explore the strategic motivations behind Washington and Manila’s strengthened partnership, why this energy pact matters now more than ever, and how Beijing is interpreting the move as a challenge to its maritime claims. From economic implications to military calculations, this is one of the most significant developments in Asia’s geopolitical landscape in 2025.This content was created using AI tools combined with human research, editing, and verification, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and high-quality storytelling.

The newly released Epstein files have exposed a hidden network linking Larry Summers, Jeffrey Epstein, and Jin Keyu — the daughter of a top CCP financial official. This investigation unpacks how a Chinese “red aristocrat” rose to prominence in the West, why Epstein and Summers labeled her “Peril,” and how Beijing’s elite financial families extended their influence into U.S. academia, politics, and global institutions. What was expected to be a sex scandal has unexpectedly revealed the inner workings of both Beijing and Washington elites — with Epstein acting as the “wingman.”

In a few years, America may not need to buy critical minerals from China anymore, says synthetic chemist and nanotechnologist James Tour.Why? Because of a method called flash Joule heating that he and his team have been studying at Rice University.China currently has a near monopoly on global processing capacity of critical minerals, including rare earths. These are essential to much of our modern economy, from electronics to defense to medical devices. America has access to plenty of rare earth reserves, but very little capacity to process and refine them. Rebuilding these incredibly complex supply chains independent of China is a major uphill battle.But Tour and his team have pioneered a process that allows quick extraction of rare earths from something we have abundantly available: electronic and industrial waste.“We realized that we could take certain materials, say industrial waste like fly ash … flash it, and get rare earth elements to come out,” Tour says.The same method can be used to extract rare earths from mine tailings—the leftover, toxic material of old mines that used to be too expensive to process.“So there’s huge availability of this. And if you recycle it—metals are infinitely recyclable,” Tour says.Tour is a professor of chemistry, materials science, and nanoengineering at Rice University. You can find him on X, YouTube, and other platforms: ‪@DrJamesTour‬

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China didn’t slow down — it fell off a cliff.In this video, I break down why China isn’t facing a “temporary downturn,” but an L-shaped collapse that’s sending the country all the way back to 1999, before the middle class even existed.From housing and jobs to deflation and disappearing confidence, here’s the real story Beijing doesn’t want you to see.

Japan is moving to fortify its front line near Taiwan. A medium-range missile system is headed to the southern island of Yonaguni, tightening defenses to deter China’s growing military threat.President Donald Trump said on Monday that China’s Xi Jinping has invited him to visit Beijing in April, and that he will return the favor by welcoming China’s leader on a state visit.American nuclear-powered aircraft carriers have been deployed in waters near China. This signals Washington’s growing commitment to stability in the South China Sea.The fight over AI dominance is heating up—and Nvidia’s advanced chips are at the center of it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick hints at what Trump may decide.Britain announced a new initiative to secure critical mineral supplies and reduce reliance on China.There’s an emerging field called biocomputing, where human neurons power the next generation of computers. The co-CEO of Swiss startup FinalSpark joins us to explain how this differs from AI, its energy efficiency, and where China stands in this new field.00:00 Intro01:03 Japan Advances Air Defense Systems, Deployment Near Taiwan03:11 Xi Emphasizes Taiwan, White House Remains Silent03:48 U.S. Nuclear-Powered Carriers Deployed Near China05:08 U.S., China Held Maritime Security Talks in Hawaii05:57 Lutnick: Trump Weighs Nvidia AI Chip Sales to China07:21 How the Nexperia Chip Crisis Upended Auto Supply Chains09:45 UK Moves to Cut Reliance on China’s Rare Earths12:06 U.S., EU to Diversify Trade Relations13:34 China Absent from New Field of Biocomputing: Jordan

A Taiwan invasion won’t just threaten Taiwan—it could drag Japan, the U.S., and the whole region into a major conflict. In this clip, counterintelligence expert Dr. Robert Eldridge explains why Japan believes a Taiwan contingency is inevitable, how the CCP might retaliate after Japan expels its rogue consul general, and why Japan is accelerating its defense ties with the US and Taiwan.#china