May 8, 2026 China May Try ‘Maneuevring’ Over Taiwan Issue at Trump Meeting, Taiwanese Official Says Reuters Nephew of Taiwanese Minister Forced to Quit Job in China Shelley Shan, Taipei Times Two Men Found Guilty of Spying for Hong Kong by London Jury Kris Cheng, Nikkei Asia Japan Pivots Indo-Pacific Strategy Toward Southeast Asia David Hutt, Deutsche Welle The Canadian Who Spent Over 1,000 Days in Chinese Prison Warns Ottawa Is Walking Into Beijing’s Trade Trap Sam Cooper, The Bureau
May 7, 2026 ‘They Have Built a Machine That Pulls Out Their Mother Tongue’: Why Tibet’s Children Think They Are Chinese Kris Cheng, The Guardian Taiwanese News Host Faces China Espionage Charges Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times Japan, Philippines Launch Working Group on Transfer of Abukuma-Class Destroyer Escorts Kosuke Takahashi, Naval News The Secret Government Intelligence Unit Fighting for Its Own Survival James King, The Canberra Times Pentagon Paying Chinese-Linked Firm to Vet Beijing Military Threats, Critics Warn Bill Gertz, The Washington Times Donovan’s Deep Dives: The Special Defense Budget Is a Crucial Test of KMT Leadership and Party Unity Courtney Donovan Smith, Taipei Times Notes From Central Taiwan: The KMT’s Old Defense Game Michael Turton, Taipei Times Chinese Man Detained for Using AI-Generated Image of KMT Chairwoman Cheng in Livestream Sales Global Times
May 6, 2026 Trump, Xi Likely to Discuss Taiwan Next Week, U.S. Says Reuters Trump Says He Will Raise Jimmy Lai Case With Xi Jinping at Beijing Summit Shweta Sharma, The Independent KMT Fails to Find Consensus on Its Defense Proposal Lin Hsin-han, Taipei Times U.S. Army Fires Tomahawk Missile From New Typhon Launcher During Philippines Drill Leilani Chavez, Army Times Japan to Test More Advanced Weaponry in Australia as ‘Quasi Allies’ Deepen Cooperation Matthew Knott, The Age Australia’s Partnership With Japan Helps Deter China From Starting a War Alex Bristow, The Strategist Is America Missing the Real Fight Behind Taiwan’s Defense Budget? Kevin Ting-chen Sun, The National Interest I’m Leaving China After Eight Years. Suspicion of Outsiders Is Rising Yoko Kubota, The Wall Street Journal
May 5, 2026 Taiwan Won’t Give in to Pressure, President Says of Africa Trip China Tried to Stop Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang, Reuters Taiwan’s First Indigenous Defense Submarine Begins 13th Sea Trial, July Delivery Eyed Hung Chen-hung and Fion Khan, Taipei Times China Cover-Up After Pilot Killed 132 by Flying Plane Into Mountain Charles Bremmer, The Times Tim Cook Built Apple in China, but Beijing Owns the Keys Geoffrey Cain, Commonplace Is There a China Strategy Behind the Iran War? Michael Sobolik and Grant Rumley, The Dispatch Xi’s Forever Purge Neil Thomas and Shengyu Wang, Foreign Affairs Guided Autonomy: America Watching in Xi’s China Guoguang Wu, Asia Society Policy Institute
May 4, 2026 Hong Kong Government and Reporters Without Borders Trade Barbs Over Press Freedom Ranking Tom Grundy, Hong Kong Free Press Jensen Says NVIDIA Now Has ‘Zero Percent’ Market Share in China — Says U.S. Export Policy ‘Has Already Largely Backfired’ Anton Shilov, Tom’s Hardware KMT Divided on Defense Budget Lo Kuo-chia, Taipei Times Taiwan Opposition Leader Eyes Trump Meeting After Xi Sitdown Yian Lee, Stephen Engle and Miaojung Lin, Bloomberg Taiwan Announces Tightened Rules for China-Born Spouses Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times Convicted Former Harvard Scientist Rebuilds Brain Computer Lab in China David Kirton, Reuters China Rejects U.S. Sanctions oOn Refineries Over Iran Oil Links AFP
April 30, 2026 Taiwan Tops Beijing’s agenda for Trump-Xi Summit Antoni Slodkowski and Ben Blanchard, Reuters Taiwan Leader’s Last-Minute Plea to Fly Via Europe Was Rejected Jenny Leonard, Yian Lee, and Cindy Wang, Bloomberg Taiwan Activates Backup Communications for Island After Undersea Cable Breaks Ben Blanchard, Reuters Chinese Hackers Spied on Cuban Embassy as U.S. Prepared Blockade Patrick Howell O’Neill, Bloomberg U.S. Missiles Deploy Near Taiwan During Balikatan Exercise, Chinese Action Group Operates Nearby Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News China Is America’s Military Equal Now and in Any Future Fight, Marine General Warns Howard Altman, The War Zone Iran Killed Any Delusions of U.S. Military Domination Over China Jennifer Kavanagh, Responsible Statecraft
April 29, 2026 Cheng Says KMT Could Approve NTD 800 Billion Defense Budget if U.S. Makes Binding Agreement Keoni Everington, Taiwan News U.S. Wants Curbs on China as a Condition for Paying U.N. Dues, Report Says David Brunnstrom, Reuters Philippines Not Concerned Iran War Will Distract U.S. From Region, Top Defense Official Says Karen Lema and Nestor Corrales, Reuters Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Falun Gong Lawsuit Against Tech Company Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times The Mountaintop Mirage: Why Xi’s Military Purges Cannot Produce the Force He Wants Christopher Nye, War on the Rocks MSS Reveals: Foreign Organizations Are Heavily Funding ‘Lying Flat Influencers’ and Systematically Conducting ‘Lying Flat Brainwashing’ Sinocism Phony Whistleblowers, Fake Journalists and Cyber Spies: ICIJ Network Targeted After China Targets Probe Scilla Alecci, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
April 28, 2026 Meta Is Preparing to Have to Undo Its Manus Acquisition After China Ban Raffaele Huang and Meghan Bobrowsky, The Wall Street Journal How China Block of AI Deal Could Stop ‘Singapore-Washing’ AFP U.S. Presses Taiwan Parliament to Pass ‘Comprehensive’ Defense Budget Reuters At U.N., China Denounces Japan and EU Over South China Sea Remarks Arathy Somasekhar and David Brunnstrom, Reuters Top Lobbying Firm Does Bidding of Entity Linked to Uyghur Repression Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner What Five Decades of Summits Reveal About U.S.-China Relations Neil Thomas and Haolan Wang, Foreign Policy The Ugly Side of Eswatini-Taiwan Relations James Baron, The Diplomat
April 27, 2026 Exiled Tibetans to Elect Government in Vote Condemned by China Tenzin Woeden, AFP Ex-Worker of Tokyo Electron Gets 10-year Jail Term in TSMC Trade Secrets Case Wen-Yee Lee, Reuters U.S. Anti-Ship Missiles in the Philippines for Balikatan 2026 Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, Naval News Taiwan Drone Exports Top $100 Million in Q1 Tseng Ting-yun and Lee Hsin-Yin, CNA U.S. Targets China’s Shadow Trade With Iran in Sweeping Sanctions Cate Cadell, The Washington Post China Publishes Maps Detailing Minerals on the Ocean Floor Sachi Kitajima Mulkey, The New York Times Taiwan Should Scrap Its Submarine Daydream Ethan Connell and Jonathan Walberg, Taipei Times
April 24, 2026 TSMC Plans to Open Chip Packaging Plant in Arizona by 2029, Executive Says Stephen Nellis and Max A. Cherney, Reuters White House Accuses China of ‘Industrial-Scale’ Theft of AI Technology Demetri Sevastopulo in Austin and Cristina Criddle, Financial Times NGO Reporters Without Borders Says French Journalist Denied Entry to Hong Kong in November, Slams ‘Weaponizing’ of Visas Hong Kong Free Press Taiwanese Minister Makes Rare Visit to TItu Aba Island CNA Reform U.K. Candidate Was ‘Diplomat’ for Hong Kong Robert Wright, Financial Times The Lithography Loophole: How China Is Printing Its Way to Chip Self-Sufficiency Ryan Fedasiuk and Julia Torres, American Enterprise Institute These Fishermen in the South China Sea Get Paid for Their Time on Water — Not to Fish Jason Fang, ABC News
April 23, 2026 U.S. Official Urges Taiwan Parties to Pass Special Defense Budget Elaine Hou and Ko Lin, CNA Blocking of Taiwan President’s Flight Seen as ‘Warning Shot’ by China Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia Taiwan Minister Makes Rare Trip to Disputed South China Sea Island AFP China’s Cyberspying Targets Western Defense Industry, Dutch Intel Chief Says Kim Mackrael and Daniel Michaels, The Wall Street Journal Some Troubled Science Reporting at South China Morning Post Zichen Wang, Pekinology China Maritime Report #52: Everything Everywhere All at Once: The Growing Complexity of PLA Amphibious Exercises Jason Wang, Marvin Hamor Bernardo, Pei-Jhen Wu and Andrew S. Erickson, CMSI China Maritime Reports
April 22, 2026 Student Allegedly Jailed in China for Six Years After Taking Part in Pro-Democracy Protests in Australia Wing Kuang, The Guardian U.S. Commander Warns Taiwan Not to ‘Starve the Chicken’ on Defense David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina, Reuters EU, U.S. Lawmakers Express Concern After Taiwanese President’s Africa Visit Postponed Wu Po-wei, Tony Liao and Joseph Yeh, CNA Trump Extends Iran Ceasefire, Claims Interception of ‘Gift From China’ Khushboo Razdan, South China Morning Post Hormuz Is Just a ‘Dry Run’ if China and U.S. Go to War in the Pacific, Singapore Foreign Minister Warns Lim Hui Jie, CNBC Taiwan Signs Six U.S. Arms Procurement Offers Worth Over NTD 208 Billion Lo Tien-pin and Sam Garcia, Taipei Times Hong Kong Government Applies to Seize HKD 127 Million of Jailed Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai’s Assets Hillary Leung, Hong Kong Free Press