A California realtor, Wanying “Heather” Zhang, is accused of working at the direction of Chinese intelligence to surveil Ting-Yu Lai, the U.S.-based son of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, collecting photos, videos and license plate information on U.S. soil.

At least three Chinese firms are cutting ties with French soccer star Kylian Mbappé, after he made some comments apparently referring to Mao Zedong, the founding leader of Communist China, as a dictator. Read more: abcnews.link/jV172NL

China's secret police have detained you. You are hooded or blindfolded, handcuffed, abducted to a secret location, locked in a padded cell, and threatened with severe punishment for "harming China". My cover story in @thewirechina: thewirechina.com/2026/10/25/… 1/7

A Chinese-owned mine in Canada's far north is too remote to use. But plans to build a new road connecting the mine to a shipping port are proving controversial. @peiyue_jess reports on Canada's Arctic security balancing act: buff.ly/PcKRKTj

To us Chinese, Mao Zedong is our hero. Mao uplifted farmers and the working class in China, united the Chinese people, led us to defeat foreign invaders, and founded an independent country so we could all live with dignity. Mao supported the heroic struggle of the African people against imperialism and colonialism. He was one of the greatest leaders in world history, and one of the most demonized by the West.

It won’t be much longer. Americans should be furious and demanding answers. Chinese stocks are buried in Americans’ 401(k)s, including many Vanguard funds. Most investors have no idea how much exposure they have to China or the risks involved. When China’s debt crisis comes to a head, how many of these companies, built with foreign capital and sustained by state subsidies, will survive? And why are we exposing Americans’ retirement savings to that risk in the first place?

There is no such thing as safe, privacy-protected CCP-tied technology. China’s laws forbid it. Chinese AI models like Zhipu put Americans’ data at risk of exfiltration and intelligence collection. US companies must reject Chinese AI infiltration. dailycaller.com/2026/10/24/r…

While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected. Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions. Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent. But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models? We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem. Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concerning-b…

While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected. Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions. Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent. But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models? We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem. Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concerning-b…

Well done Mr Carney. Truly impressive.

Confucius Institutes are a staging ground for Chinese infiltration of American education. @SecWar is absolutely right to designate these hotbeds of CCP activity as national security threats. We cannot allow Beijing’s propaganda to infect our universities.

Make universities limit ties to China — and fund US STEM students instead tinyurl.com/2wkkb24t

The War Department has designated Confucius Institutes as a threat to our national security.

🚨 JUST IN: SecWar Hegseth announces the Pentagon designated CCP-linked Confucius Institutes as NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS and has now officially WIPED OUT 80 disguised Chinese propaganda cells hiding inside 30 American universities BIG WIN! 🇺🇸 "These Chinese government-backed propaganda cultural programs had infiltrated our nation's universities in almost every state... they came back disguised in new forms, just like DEI does." "80 new propaganda cells across 30 universities had popped up using different names and different charters, but with the same mission: to steal intellectual property and to infiltrate the minds of American students." Now the War Department has labeled them a national security threat and dismantled every one in the last two months. "No more, and never again." BOOM.