July 31, 2026 Tesla Weighs Sale of China Business to Pave Way for Potential SpaceX Merger Becky Peterson and Raffaele Huang, The Wall Street Journal Chinese Stocks On Track for Worst Month in Decade William Sandlund, The Financial Times China’s Factory Activity Unexpectedly Contracts in July on Demand Slump, Typhoons Anniek Bao, CNBC China Moves to Lock in a New Edge on Taiwan Before the Next Trump-Xi Summit Di Lu, The Diplomat AI Boomtowns Worsen Divide in China's Split-Screen Economy Bloomberg Young Kim Leads Bipartisan U.S. Congressional Group to Taiwan CNA
July 30, 2026 Iran To Get Chinese Shoulder-Launched Missile Systems in Weeks, Sources Say John Irish and Jonathan Saul, Reuters Inside China’s Two-Speed Economy: Why Goods Consumption Is Slumping Even as Exports and Services Boom Nicholas Gordon, Fortune China Threatens Retaliation Against U.S. Humanoid Robot Ban, Says It ‘Severely Damages’ Relations Evelyn Cheng, CNBC Germany Maps China’s Weaknesses in Preparation for a Trade War Kamil Kowalcze and Arne Delfs, Bloomberg China Puts the ‘Squeeze’ on Taiwan With New Maritime Patrols Erin Hale, Al Jazeera 402 Taiwanese Reported Missing, Questioned or Detained in China: MAC Li Ya-wen and Sunny Lai, Focus Taiwan Hong Kong Independent Bookstores to Close After Police Raids The Straits Times In Depth: Fatal Gene-Editing Experiment Tests China’s Clinical Research Oversight Cui Xiaotian, Caixin
July 29, 2026 Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots, to Protect U.S. AI Buildout Alexandra Alper and David Shepardson, Reuters Helping Taiwan Helps the U.S. Steve Forbes, Forbes He Helped China Repress Uyghurs. He Says He’s a Victim, Too. Li Yuan, The New York Times Analysis: China Likely to Forgo Major Stimulus as Growth Target Remains in Reach Yu Hairong, Caixin Global A Six-Point Plan to Make the U.S.-Japan Alliance Battle-Ready David Santoro, Nikkei Asia The Loneliest Island Bonny Lin, Foreign Affairs
July 28, 2026 Will the Heat From a Cooking Oil Scandal Help the Opposition in Taiwan? Lawrence Chung, South China Morning Post Taiwan Opening Phoenix Diplomatic Hub as Semiconductor Industry Booms Jeremy Duda, Axios Even China’s AI Powerhouses Can’t Figure Out How to Profit Off AI Meaghan Tobin, The New York Times Anthropic CEO: Don’t Ban Cheap AI — But Clamp Down on China Katherine Long, Politico Xi Jinping, Pioneering Venture Capitalist The Economist
July 27, 2026 China’s CXMT Jumps 471% on Debut, Tops Intel’s Market Cap Wataru Suzuki, Nikkei Asia Drone Defense Systems Lacking, Audit Report Shows Fang Wei-li and Jake Chung, Taipei Times See What It’s Like to Use a North Korean Smartphone Under Kim Jong Un Michelle Ye Hee Lee, The Washington Post Shein’s Hong Kong IPO Filing Sidesteps Xinjiang Cotton Controversy Helen Reid and Casey Hall, Reuters Philippines, Japan, and the U.S. Hold Joint Exercise in the South China Sea; Tension in Disputed Areas Escalates Neil Jerome Morales, Bloomberg Chinese CXMT Dram Doesn’t Look Like the Budget Savior Many Were Expecting — New Modules Enter the Market, but Prices Still Track the Big Three Anton Shilov, Tom's Hardware Satellite Images Reveal How Suspected Scam Compounds Appear Out of Nowhere Matt Burgess, Wired
July 24, 2026 China Begins Two Days of Live-Fire Drills in Taiwan Strait Reuters Republic of China Defense Ministry Seeks U.S. Compensation Over Extreme Delays to F-16 Deliveries Military Watch Magazine Taiwan Eases Rules on Foreign Telecom Satellites, Eyes Musk's Starlink Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia China Rewrites the ‘Soft Power’ Playbook for the AI Age Steve Lohr, The New York Times ‘Falling Apart’: Trump’s Boeing Deal Hits Turbulence With Beijing Phelim Kine and Ari Hawkins, Politico Inside China’s All-Out Push to Catch Up With American AI Chips Josh Chin and Raffaele Huang, The Wall Street Journal
July 23, 2026 Taiwan to Push Advanced Robotics on Distinct Path From China: Tech Czar Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia Jailed Hong Kong Democracy Leader Told He Is to Be Deported From U.K. Richard Spencer, The Times Samsung’s $400,000 Bonus Fuels Labor Disputes Across South Korea Hyonhee Shin, Bloomberg Rubio Meets Wang, Discusses Laying Groundwork for Chinese President’s U.S. Visit Michael Martina, Reuters China AI Companies Rush to Raise Funds and Close Gap With U.S. Raffaele Huang and Tracy Qu, The Wall Street Journal Germany Has Deported a Uyghur Man to China, His Mother Says Simina Mistreanu, The Associated Press
July 21, 2026 China’s Car Market Heads for Worst Year Since 2021 as Sales Plunge 20% Matthew Tan and Evelyn Cheng, CNBC Why Criticism of the Qing Dynasty Scares the Communist Party The Economist The Secret Trump Administration Battle to Fight Chinese AI Maria Curi, Axios Germany Is Finally Waking Up to the China Challenge. And Beijing Is Gearing Up to Respond Jessie Yin, Atlantic Council Taiwan Alleges Ex-TSMC Staff Stole Chip Secrets to Sell to China Cheng Ting-Fang, Nikkei Asia The Short-War Illusion: What Iran Teaches Beijing About Taiwan Julia Curlee, Lawfare Beijing Is Trying to Turn Taiwan’s Sea Goddess Into a Chinese Agent Ashish Valentine, Foreign Policy
July 20, 2026 China's Role as 'Swing Importer' Cushions Oil Market Spike Hirofumi Matsuo, Nikkei Asia Chinese Leaders Zero In on Need for Stimulus for Economy Joe Leahy and Thomas Hale, The Financial Times China’s Mysterious New Billionaires Are Conquering the World The Economist China’s Questionable Tech Strategy Michael Schuman, The Atlantic The Return of the Taiwan Tiger Chris Horton, The Wire China Philippines Condemns Monkey Video on Chinese Media as Racist Kelly Ng, BBC
July 17, 2026 Taiwan’s Opposition TPP Launches Historic First Trip to Mainland China Lawrence Chung, South China Morning Post Taiwan Orders Dozens of Sea Drones to Fend Off China's Maritime Squeeze Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia Taiwan Computer Chipmaker TSMC Pledges Another $100 Billion to Expand U.S. Chipmaking Capacity Chan Ho-him, The Associated Press Trump Alleges China Committed Interference in 2020 Election Reuters People in Many Countries Now View China More Positively Than the U.S. Jonathan Schulman , Laura Silver , Laura Clancy and William Miner, Pew Research Center China Wants To End AI Romances The Economist
July 16, 2026 China Aggressively Patrols Disputed Waters. Now the U.S. Coast Guard Is Moving In Mike Cherney, The Wall Street Journal Rise in Number of Taiwanese Going Missing or Being Detained in China Sparks Concern in Taiwan Yip Wai Yee, The Straits Times Who Holds the Advantage? Three Perspectives on the U.S.-China Military Balance John Culver, Bruce Jones and Michael E. O’Hanlon, Brookings Trump to Allege Chinese Meddling in U.S. Elections in Primetime Speech, Sources Say Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News Young Japanese Who Rode AI Boom Flaunt Wealth With Luxury Buys Alice French, Lisa Du and Takashi Nakamichi, Japan Times Trump Defends Data Centers, Slams New York's 'Terrible' Moratorium Joey Garrison, USA TODAY China Expels Politburo Member Ma Xingrui in Xi’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Ken Moritsugu, The Associated Press Top Orban Ally Joins Chinese Car Giant BYD Milena Walde, Politico
July 15, 2026 He Called Out China’s Economy. Then He Went Silent—for Good. Lingling Wei, The Wall Street Journal China’s Economy Slows to 4.3% Annual Pace of Growth in April-June Chan Ho-him, The Associated Press China Targets Strategic Sectors in Netherlands, Report Warns, Citing Asml Jens Kastner, Nikkei Asia China Claims Chip Exports Nearly Doubled to $177 Billion in the First Half of 2026 as Memory Prices Surged — 96% Year-on-Year Increase Inflated by Hikes Luke James, Tom's Hardware Japan Builds Intelligence Agency It Hasn’t Had Since World War II Javier C. Hernández, The New York Times TPP Delegation Begins 1st Official China Visit Since Party's Founding Wu Jui-chi and Evelyn Kao, CNA