2026 Issue 42

As PRC markets suffer their worst setbacks in more than a decade, the PRC Government directs a halt to any initial public offerings, and more evidence emerges that the PRC is using its financial institutions to enable both Moscow and Tehran to withstand western sanctions.

Joel Wuthnow explores the PRC’s food dependencies which could limit the CCP’s willingness to launch a war of aggression against Taiwan.

Italian authorities suspect ten individuals associated with the CCP’s United Front Work Department of tracking an outspoken and popular Chinese dissident living in Italy.