Taiwan’s parliament, the Legislative Yuan, is considering a defense special budget that effectively funds all of the items on the recently-announced
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Labour’s Tilt Toward China Has Been Years in the Making
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is on his way to Beijing where he will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) tomorrow. This meeting marks the
TikTok Finally Under New Ownership, Algorithm to Be ‘Leased’ From China
TikTok’s American spinoff, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, has finally been established after years in limbo. TikTok users do not have to download a
Let’s Not Do This Now: Free Speech and Hate Speech in Taiwan
Taiwan is a society on the edge. It is threatened from without by China, an irredentist power that refuses to renounce its goal of annexing Taiwan. It
How China’s ‘Mega Embassy’ Could Bolster United Front Work in the U.K.
After months of delay, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to finally make a decision on whether to greenlight a new Chinese Embassy at the old
Justice Mission 2025 Propaganda: Chinese Aircraft Were Not Flying Over Pingtung and Taipei 101
During and after the Justice Mission 2025 exercise in December, China released a huge volume of propaganda material. Among the childish cartoons of
Venezuela-Style Decapitation Strike Won’t Work on Taiwan
Beijing says it is “gravely concerned.” Just before midnight on Friday, President Donald Trump gave the greenlight for “Operation Absolute Resolve”
No, the U.S. Didn’t Just Give China Grounds to Invade Taiwan
“Oh, this means China is allowed to invade Taiwan now,” they say. The U.S. kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a frankly very
Jimmy Lai Has Been Convicted. Now It’s Time to Let Him Go
Pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai (黎智英) has been found guilty in his Hong Kong national security trial of publishing seditious materials and
China Will Struggle to Manage Blame for the Hong Kong Fire
No one is quite sure yet what exactly the fire at Wang Fuk Court has revealed about Hong Kong’s political system. Chinese media has decried the
The Trump Administration’s Nvidia Chip Deal Doesn’t Make Sense
If the Trump administration’s primary objective were to make Chinese companies reliant on the American tech stack, then it would allow Nvidia to
Hong Kong Officials Try to Head Off Blame for Catastrophic Fire
“If someone commits a crime and hides their actions for a time, preventing law enforcement from finding it, does that make it the authorities’