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A recent investigation reveals that PAX Global Technology, a Chinese company under federal investigation for suspicious data transmissions, has ownership links to Che Feng, a Chinese financier closely connected to Hunter Biden. Earlier this month, Hunter Biden dropped his lawsuit against two IRS whistleblowers who alleged there had been a cover-up in former President Biden’s DOJ to block a tax fraud investigation into the former President’s son. However, the financial sector controversies Hunter has incited, particularly with his business dealings in China, remain an ongoing topic of interest and allegedly extend far deeper than tax fraud. For example, Breitbart News...

On Thursday, CIA Chief William Burns gave his first public speech as director at the Georgia Institute of Technology addressing the dual threat of China and Russia. Burns said Chinese President Xi Jinping is “a silent partner” in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “aggression” in Ukraine, warning that China poses the “greatest challenge” and “most profound test” that the agency has ever faced. KX News has covered the State Investment Board’s efforts to entirely divest from Russia, but what about Russia’s “silent partner,” China? The SIB has 69 investments in China that span a wide range of industries throughout the country....

Exclusive A question mark is hanging over the future of EpiFlu, an international database created to help monitor the spread and evolution of influenza viruses. The database openly shares genetic, epidemiological and clinical data that previously had often been hoarded by countries and scientists, and is contributing to the rapid analysis of viral gene sequences from the current H1N1 pandemic.EpiFlu has become mired in a legal dispute between the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (GISAID), an international group created by leading flu researchers in August 2006 to promote data sharing (see Nature 442, 981; 2006), and the Swiss...