Mapping Power: What Xi Jinping’s Travels Reveal About China’s Global Strategy
How Xi Jinping’s 55+ foreign trips reveal China’s strategy in Russia, Africa & Latin America — investments, debt-trap debates & illegal fishing.
How Xi Jinping’s 55+ foreign trips reveal China’s strategy in Russia, Africa & Latin America — investments, debt-trap debates & illegal fishing.
Money, users, benchmarks, cost, and trust each point to a different leader in the 2026 AI race. This piece compares Grok 4.5 and Grok Imagine (xAI), OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and the fast-growing Chinese model ecosystem (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM), with a closer look at DeepSeek’s documented political bias, censorship, and data-privacy issues based on IJ-Reportika’s investigation and independent research since.
Explore how cryptocurrency, China’s Digital Yuan, CBDCs and geopolitics are reshaping the global financial order. Read IJ-Reportika’s 2025–2026 report.
Inside the 2026 G7 summit in Évian: the Trump-Meloni photo feud, key outcomes on Ukraine, Iran, and China, and the case for engaging Russia and China.
The FBI, MI5, and Five Eyes allies have issued a joint warning that Chinese PLA military intelligence is aggressively using LinkedIn, Indeed, and other job platforms to recruit Western defense and government personnel. Full details on the espionage tactics.
Four New Zealand MPs have been banned from China for one year after visiting Taiwan on a parliamentary delegation, with the Chinese Embassy demanding an apology to lift the sanctions.
Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has called Canada “one of the nastiest countries to deal with,” threatened to leave NATO, ambushed South Africa’s president with debunked conspiracy theories, and turned on even his closest European ally, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni. Meanwhile, he has flown to Beijing to toast Xi Jinping as “a great leader” and defended Putin’s war aims as positions he personally “understands.” This is the fully sourced record — date by date, quote by quote.
Explore $7B frigate deal and evolving Australia-Japan strategic alliance as they take charge of Pacific defense amidst shifting geopolitics.
An investigative analysis exposing failure rates of Chinese weapons exports, comparing global arms suppliers and revealing reliability gaps, operational risks, and the true cost of low-cost defence systems.
Rare earth metals power EVs, wind turbines & defense tech. Discover what they are, where they’re mined, China’s dominance, and the escalating geopolitical struggle.