A weakening economy, property uncertainties, and changing e-commerce landscape are impacting Chinese wealth creation, according to a study, which revealed that while some benefited, the nation’s economic woes—and the property sector’s downfall, in particular—have dealt a blow to many on the list of rich Chinese. According to the Harun China Rich List 2023 released on Tuesday, with 1,241 people owning more than 5 billion yuan (equal to $690 million), 5 percent, or 64 Chinese individuals, saw their wealth shrink from the previous year, while 15 percent, or 224 people, saw their wealth drop from the high two years earlier. Total wealth dropped 4 percent, to $3.2 trillion, but 522 individuals saw their wealth increase, of which 115 were new faces. For 719 moneyed Chinese, though, wealth remained unchanged, but 179 dropped off the list from last year....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/changing-economic-landscape-affecting-chinese-prosperity-5515901
The Israel—Hamas conflict has left South Korea on edge over reports that North Korea supplied Hamas with weapons used in its deadly attack on Oct. 7. Further, the surprise incursion over the heavily guarded Israeli border has raised concern about the security of South Korea’s northern border, say experts. In the face of those concerns, together with an advancing nuclear threat from North Korea, the United States–South Korea relationship is more important than ever. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Lake Changjin on Oct. 12, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said the alliance was “forged in blood” during the Korean War.... 
Communist China’s espionage operations, including theft of intellectual property in technology and other trade secrets, pose significant threats to the West and is “unprecedented in human history,” intelligence chiefs from the Five Eyes alliance warned. In an interview with CBS News’s “60 Minutes” on Oct. 22, the intelligence leaders from the Five Eyes alliance shared their concerns about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) threats, what it means to democracies, as well as the message they want to send to Beijing. The Five Eyes alliance was founded after World War II as an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand....
A video featuring a Chinese chess grandmaster exposing a senior official within China’s top sports agency for alleged corruption recently went viral on Chinese social media. In the video clip viewed by the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times, Liu Dahua, a winner of multiple Chinese chess champions, accuses Guo Liping, deputy director of the Chess and Card Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of China (GASC), of rigging the results of national chess tournaments and paying no heed to corrupt practices within the Chinese chess community. The video, which was released on Oct. 17 on Weibo, a popular Facebook-like Chinese social media platform, shows Mr. Liu showing his ID card as proof of his identity as he speaks in front of the camera....