China Global Sharp Power Weekly Alert
China's Global Sharp Power Weekly Alert

2026 Issue 37

Sunday, October 4, 2026

About the Issue

The UK Security Service, MI5, issued a stark warning to universities that the PRC Ministry of State Security is using academic collaboration to further its capabilities to spy on countries like the UK and surveil its own citizens.

CNBC published an investigative report into John Harold Rogers, the former Federal Reserve official that was arrested in early 2025 and accused of spying for the PRC.  Their report reveals that Rogers appears to have gained career advancement, cash, and companionship from a young woman in exchange for his services to Chinese intelligence.

The 2017 documentary, Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, has gone to the top of Netflix Hong Kong’s ratings which has angered the Chinese Communist Party and their puppet officials in Hong Kong who are considering a crackdown on the citizens who are viewing the film.

Reporting from the Wall Street Journal reveals how Iran and China are supplying the Houthis in Yemen with long range weapons and other capabilities to disrupt global energy flows and attack its neighbors like Saudi Arabia.  The Houthis are just the latest proxy group that serve both Tehran and Beijing in plunging the Middle East into disorder and conflict.

The UK newspaper The Telegraph published a report on the extent of the PRC’s nuclear weapons expansion program which Beijing has tried to hide from the outside world.  The Chinese Communist Party’s efforts represent the largest expansion of nuclear weapons in forty years and risking pushing the world into a new nuclear arms race.

The American coffee company Starbucks has just opened two new cafes in Xinjiang, where the Chinese Communist Party is committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims, attracting loud protests from human rights groups and U.S. lawmakers.

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