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On 26 August, a glacial collapse near the Nepal-China border triggered a devastating flash flood that swept 70 kilometre...
09/02/2026

On 26 August, a glacial collapse near the Nepal-China border triggered a devastating flash flood that swept 70 kilometres down Nepal’s Trishuli River. Horrifying footage captured the moment the torrential mudslide completely destroyed the Gyirong land port and border crossing. As of 1 September, over 1000 people have been confirmed k*lled and nearly 4000 reported missing in Nepal, while China’s Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region has suffered 16 confirmed de*ths with over 500 still missing.

On the Chinese side, emergency responders instantly sprang into action, working 24/7 to clear debris and search for survivors across the entire affected area. Predominantly Tibetan local cadres of the Communist Party of China are directing an all-hands response involving police and military personnel from across the country. The country’s internet is awash with heart-wrenching stories of rescue workers plunging into the effort even as their own loved ones remain buried.

But you wouldn’t know any of this from Western outlets such as the BBC, which risibly claims that the Chinese government is censoring images of the disaster. This narrative can be debunked with a cursory search for ‘泥石流’ (‘mudslide’) or related terms on Xiaohongshu, Weibo, or any other Chinese social media platform. Some of the top search results come from state media, including the very clip the BBC used to illustrate its ‘story’.

Analysts considered this a journalistic lack of integrity, and it is yet another reminder that with every natural disaster affecting China comes an equally noxious flood of low-effort Western propaganda. If anything, the much-maligned ‘Great Firewall’ insulates Chinese netizens at large from the true depravity of Western legacy media.

08/31/2026

Nearly three years of US-Isr*eli g*nocide in Gaza have normalised the imagery of mass graves, streamed to the world in real time. But such atrocities on the part of the US and its client regimes are nothing new. More than seven decades ago, they launched a comparably g*nocidal campaign across Korea, slaughtering at least 20% of the population over the course of three years.

But while the majority of these deaths were concentrated on the front lines or in the heavily-bombed north, the far-right US puppet regime in the south extended the mass killing to the home front. Mere weeks into the war, the Republic of Korea had massacred an estimated 200,000 accused communist, fearing they would be liberated by the rapidly advancing DPRK forces.

Up to 7000 of these political prisoners, from all across the country, were summarily executed near the centrally located city of Daejeon in July 1950. They were buried at Sannae Gollyeonggol in what many consider the world’s longest mass grave, stretching over a kilometre in length. Then all records of the incident were systematically suppressed for half a century. Only in 1999 did the United States declassify its photographic archive, revealing its active complicity in a massacre for which neither it nor the ROK has ever formally apologised.

In the face of ongoing right-wing denialism, aging families are now in a race against time to recover their loved ones’ remains and properly memorialise their sacrifice. As part of the US Out of Korea Jaju Solidarity Brigade, Charles Xu brings us an exclusive Sovereign Media report from Daejeon on their fight for justice and accountability.

08/30/2026

Sprawling across some 1400 hectares of once-prime farmland outside Pyeongtaek, Korea, Camp Humphreys is the largest overseas US military base in the world. Since 2018, it has served as the headquarters of US Forces Korea, whose commander recently described the country as a ‘dagger’ aimed at China. Worryingly, he would take operational command of the entire Republic of Korea military in the event of renewed war.

When US occupation forces first plotted their relocation from Seoul to Pyeongtaek, they were likely relieved to escape the capital’s militant protest movements. What they didn’t account for was the intensity of local resistance to Camp Humphreys’ expansion. For nearly two years, the village of Daechuri held out as a hotbed of anti-imperialist mobilisation across the country. When the final 44 households were evicted in May 2006, over 500 solidarity activists were arrested in the ROK’s largest domestic military operation since the 1980 Gwangju uprising.

The fires of that struggle still burn today, in a mass anti-US movement that brings over a thousand students, trade unionists, and progressive activists to Camp Humphreys annually. This year, they were galvanised by news of a deadly white phosphorus leak at nearby Osan Air Base just weeks before. But in a historic first, they were also joined by the Jaju Solidarity Brigade, an international delegation hailing mostly from the US and nations under its colonial rule. They were there to deliver a resounding message to the occupation in a language it was sure to understand: US Out of Korea!

08/23/2026

The New York Times says Chinese AI poses a threat because its data models, a product of Chinese ingenuity, could promote certain attitudes toward the People’s Republic of China.

But is that really the case? Or are U.S. AI developers just afraid that they are lagging behind China’s progress with A.I. - which experts agree outpaces the U.S. - while being more accessible and presenting an attractive alternative to expensive but lesser-quality U.S. AI.

If the New York Times is concerned about foreign influence operations, then perhaps it should look to the Isr*eli Occupation, which has been caught red handed investing millions to manipulate AI search queries to present a whitewashed image of the Occupation.

Isr*el’s influence operation on American AI chatbots has actually taken a new level of sophistication - by creating a fake think-tank designed to pedal hasb*ra stories about Isr*el to manipulate facts.

So is the New York Times concerned about data manipulation, or is this just a way to fearmonger markets around the vastly superior Chinese AI models?

07/31/2026

In the US the so-called “Korean War” rarely enters the public discourse, earning the offensive myopic moniker of “The Forgotten War”.

But Koreans have never forgotten. Not in the north, where US bombing leveled every building over one storey and slaughtered at least 20% of the population. And certainly not in the south, where the people have suffered under a succession of US-backed military despots.

Every year, two anniversaries in late July evoke solemn remembrance. One marks the No Gun Ri massacre of 26-29 July 1950, when US troops murdered some 400 fleeing South Korean civilians trapped under a bridge. The other commemorates the 27 July 1953 armistice that provisionally ended active combat.

But to claim that these two events bookended the war obscures more than it clarifies. The war actually started as early as 1945, the moment the US replaced Japan as the occupying power in the south and overthrew the popular People’s Republic of Korea.

Nor did it end with the armistice of 1953. A state of war exists to this day, with the US refusing to sign a final peace treaty and holding on to wartime command over the entire Republic of Korea military, with dozens of military bases. But just as the US empire has never abandoned its goal of total subjugation, Koreans across the peninsula have never stopped resisting.

Sovereign Media’s Charles Xu will be reporting from the frontlines of their struggle in August, as part of the US Out of Korea Jaju Solidarity Brigade organised by Nodutdol 노둣돌.

07/21/2026

The United States’ AI industry is fast on its way to cannibalising the country’s productive economy, with over $700 billion in projected capital spending this year alone. It’s enjoyed Donald Trump’s gratuitously self-dealing patronage from literally day one of his second term. Since then, its most visible use case has been the targeted massacre of 168 schoolchildren in Minab, Iran. Domestic opponents of data centres and their ruinous environmental impacts are officially branded ‘anti-tech violent extremists’ and potential t*rrorists.

And internationally, the US is hard at work cementing its own tech giants’ global monopoly status through the ‘Pax Silica’ initiative. The founding members include a rogues’ gallery of g*nocidal settler colonies (Isr*el, Australia) and/or US proxies in East Asia (Japan, South Korea, Singapore). Their target is unmistakable: China, the only sovereign challenger to US hegemony in AI.

Not only have a succession of Chinese models such as DeepSeek, Kimi, and Zhipu equalled their US counterparts at a small fraction of the cost. Their open-source nature undercuts the hyperscalers’ entire business model by effectively making AI a public good, especially for the Global South. And through its ability to discipline and direct the industry to socially useful ends, China’s party-state poses an equally potent threat to US tech barons’ radically anti-human ideology.

On 17 July, China delivered its answer to Pax Silica by unveiling the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO) in Shanghai. Bringing together 29 nations across Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America — including its surviving socialist bastions of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua — WAICO unites the very global majority that’s rendered surplus by the West’s techno-utopian fantasies. Its first flagship initiative, announced by Xi Jinping, is to freely disseminate the AI-powered meteorological warning system MAZU. A clearer contrast with the paranoid securitisation of Pax Silica could hardly be imagined.

1000 days into Isr*el’s ongoing g*nocide in Gaza, the New York Times still hasn’t once reckoned with its own complicity....
07/08/2026

1000 days into Isr*el’s ongoing g*nocide in Gaza, the New York Times still hasn’t once reckoned with its own complicity. Instead, it saw fit to revive an insidious propaganda narrative that had done more to cheapen the term ‘g*nocide’ than anything prior to 7 October.

For over a decade, without a shred of documentary evidence, Western media was awash with lurid tales of forced labour, mass sterilisation, and even ‘concentration camps’ targeting Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region.

Major Western governments fell over themselves to declare China guilty of ‘g*nocide’, even as they criminalised their own people for accusing Isr*el of the same. And yet ‘The World Has Failed the Uyghurs’, laments an op-ed by Washington, D.C.-based ‘dissident’ Tahir Amin.

Notably, Amin never mentions the Indigenous peoples of Palestine or the Americas.

Instead, he adheres closely to Z*onist tropes about the exceptionality of just one particular g*nocide. China, he claims, is guilty of ‘one of the most sweeping campaigns of ethnic and religious repression since the H*locaust’. After all, the myth of the ‘Uyghur g*nocide’ was tailor-made for precisely those most complicit in the modern-day h*locaust in G*za.

This is most obvious from a global perspective. At the November 2025 session of the UN Human Rights Council, 85 countries including all but a handful of Muslim-majority nations supported China’s policies in Xinjiang. Only 15, virtually all in the Global North, backed the US position. While China had always enjoyed majority support, the margin was more lopsided than ever after two years of g*nocide fully armed and abetted by the collective West.

But perhaps most devastatingly for the likes of Amin, the Uyghurs of Xinjiang themselves refuse to become pawns of Western empire. They’ve always enjoyed full linguistic and cultural autonomy, with more mosques per capita than anywhere outside West Asia. And now they can taste the fruits of their own hard-fought victory over absolute poverty and the takfiri extremist violence that once claimed the lives of Uyghurs and non-Uyghurs alike.

Qiao Collective is pleased to publish the following original essay by Chinese Canadian comrades William Dere and Wawa Li...
01/26/2026

Qiao Collective is pleased to publish the following original essay by Chinese Canadian comrades William Dere and Wawa Li.

The essay provides an in-depth investigation of Canada’s alignment with the US New Cold War on China and its ripple effects for Chinese diaspora communities. Drawing on the history of Canadian exclusion, the authors outline how a renewed Yellow Peril discourse has targeted Chinese Canadians with state repression, investigation, and silencing under the guise of combatting “foreign influence.”

Though Prime Minister Mark Carney’s much-vaunted visit to Beijing and seeming repudiation of the US-led “rules-based international order” indicates a potential trend of warming China-Canada ties, Dere and Li remind us of the constitutive role that Sinophobia has played in Canadian politics for over a century. These deep-seated legacies of racism, state violence, and imperial alignment must be rooted out if Canada is to truly chart an independent course from US hegemony.

Read the full article on our website (link in bio)!

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11/05/2025

Ever since its founding, the People’s Republic of China has endured an onslaught of Western propaganda about its alleged human rights abuses. More recently, US fearmongering has also turned to China’s supposed influence operations directed at both the West and the rest of the Global South, particularly through apps such as TikTok. It’s a multi-front information war expertly contrived to divert attention from the US itself.

China has decided it’s had enough and is striking back in kind. Far from crude “whataboutism,” it’s doing so through exhaustively researched reports compiled at both official and semi-official levels. It’s likely you’ve heard absolutely nothing about them through Western mainstream media, and that’s by design.

Join us as we break down two of these documents: the PRC State Council’s report on “Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2024,” and the Xinhua Institute’s analysis of “Colonization of the Mind: The Means, Roots, and Global Perils of US Cognitive Warfare.” As we’ll find, they’re not just crude inversions of US propaganda techniques. They’re meant to be serious tools for anti-imperialists to understand our enemy and fortify ourselves against their ever-evolving ideological offensives.

10/18/2025

After 130 years of separation caused by Japanese colonization and U.S. intervention, Taiwan stands at the frontline of a new Cold War; not by choice, but by imperial design. This is not the story of a democratic island under threat; it is the story of how Taiwan was turned into a military outpost, first by Japan, then by the United States. It was once part of China, tied through migration, culture, and resistance. But after the Communist victory in 1949, the U.S. blocked reunification; armed a dictatorship; and built a Cold War narrative that still shapes how the world sees Taiwan today. From U.S. warships to billion-dollar arms deals, Taiwan is now central to Washington’s plans to contain China. But the left must see through the slogans. This is not a battle for freedom; it is a battle over sovereignty, history, and who gets to define Asia’s future. To learn more, please check out our extensive Taiwan resource list: https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/taiwan

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