May 29, 2026 U.S.-China Conflict Over Taiwan Risks a Nuclear Escalation, Study Finds Greg Torode, Reuters Bowing to Online Fury, China’s Censors Ban a Prize-Winning Film The Economist The World Comes to Xi Jinping Edward White, Financial Times Prosecutors Open Embezzlement Probe Into Two Ex-Ma Foundation Staff Wang Cheng-chung, Hsieh Chun-ling, Matthew Mazzetta and Ko Lin, CNA China’s Police and Security Cooperation Agreements Sophie Zhuang, Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Cameron Waltz, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace What’s Driving Anti-Qing Sentiment in Contemporary China? Zhenlin Cui, The Diplomat
May 28, 2026 U.S. Eases Some Tariffs on Taiwan to Formalize Trade Agreement Alicia Diaz, Bloomberg NVIDIA Chief Jensen Huang to Join Board of Beijing’s Tsinghua University Reuters Suzhou’s APEC Meeting Offers Glimpse of How China Could Handle Taiwan as Host. What Are Its Considerations? Channel News Asia Hong Kong Overtakes Switzerland as World's Top Cross-Border Wealth Hub on China Ties, Report Shows Reuters China Drops Hammer on Cross-Border Stock Trading: Five Things to Know Loretta Chen and Cissy Zhou, Nikkei Asia The World’s Carmakers Are Struggling to Compete With China Suranjana Tewari, BBC ‘China-Maxxing’ Helps Spur an Inbound Tourism Boom Eleanor Olcott, Financial Times
May 27, 2026 China Expands Travel Curbs to Top AI Talent at Private Firms Bloomberg Taiwan Said to Suspect NVIDIA Chips Smuggled to China Via Japan Mackenzie Hawkins and Debby Wu, Bloomberg Taiwan Still Assessing Recruitment of Eswatini Workers Joseph Yeh, CNA KMT Caucus Proposes Referendum on Flogging for Certain Crimes Wang Yang-yu and Sean Lin, CNA A Dissident Escapes China by Rubber Boat and Lands in South Korea John Yoon, The New York Times What a U.S. Defense Industry Trip to Taiwan Says About Taipei’s Efforts to Overhaul Military Lawrence Chung, South China Morning Post Made in America, Owned by Beijing: China’s Quiet Infiltration of U.S. General Aviation Pat Harrigan, Washington Examiner
May 26, 2026 China’s Foreign Minister to Visit Canada Next Week for First Time in 10 Years The Canadian Press China Doesn’t Even Have to Pressure Canada to Keep Liberals in Line Joe Varner, National Post American Journalist Charged With Serving as Unregistered Agent for China Josh Gerstein and Jacob Wendler, Politico Taiwan’s National Security Bureau Identifies Thousands of ‘Cognitive Warfare’ Posts Following Trump-Xi Summit Huang Ching-hsuan and Hollie Younger, Taipei Times Lawmakers Set to Visit Taiwan-Controlled Island in South China Sea This Summer Chen Chun-hua and Joseph Yeh, CNA Patriotic Carnival to Return to Site of Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Crackdown Memorial Vigil Hong Kong Free Press How Good Is China at Export Controls? Maxwell K. Roberts, The Substrate
May 25, 2026 KMT’s Cheng to Visit U.S. June 1, With Stops in New York, DC, Boston: Source Cheng Kuang-ting and Joseph Yeh, CNA Hard Questions Await Cheng Li-wun Ryan Hass, Taipei Times Iran War, China Thaw Complicate U.S. Support for Taiwan Cate Cadell, The Washington Post U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan Unrelated to Iran War, Source Says Reuters Trump Soon to Decide on Taiwan Arms Sales: Source Elaine Hou and Chao Yen-hsiang, CNA Xi Jinping Railed Against Japan’s ‘Remilitarization’ at Donald Trump Summit Demetri Sevastopulo, Joe Leahy in Beijing and Leo Lewis, Financial Times China Removes Hukou Hurdle for Migrant Workers in Social Insurance Shake-up Meredith Chen, South China Moring Post China Restricts More Drug Precursor Exports to U.S. AFP Chinese Memory Starts Entering Global Markets as Corsair DDR5 Modules Spotted With CXMT DRAM Hassan Mujtaba, Wccftech
May 22, 2026 Acting Navy Secretary: Taiwan Weapons Sales Paused to Ensure Munitions for Iran War Ellen Mitchell, The Hill Taiwan Says It Has Not Been Told by U.S. of Changes to Military Sales Reuters Balikatan 2026 Was Rehearsal for Defense of the Philippines, Paparo Says Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News Taiwan Seeks to Detain Three in Nvidia Smuggling Crackdown Add us on Google Mackenzie Hawkins and Yian Lee, Bloomberg Former Huawei Subsidiary Planning Talks With Federal Government to Enter Canada Irene Galea, Globe and Mail What Did Trump Achieve in His Visit to China? Observing China From Tesla to Visa, C.E.O.s on Trump’s China Trip Sought Relief Ana Swanson, The New York Times China’s AI Governance Offensive Threatens U.S. Tech Leadership Audrye Wong and Ryan Fedasiuk, War on the Rocks
May 21, 2026 Trump Says He’ll Talk to Taiwan’s President Amid Arms Deal Negotiations Phelim Kine and Gregory Svirnovskiy, Politico Pentagon Official’s Beijing Visit in Doubt Over $14 Billion U.S. Arms Package for Taiwan Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times Taiwan Presses Its Case After Trump Puts Arms Sales in Question Joyu Wang and Chun Han Wong, The Wall Street Joural Notes From Central Taiwan: Trump, Taiwan and the Great Panic Machine Michael Turton, Taipei Times Numbers of Tibetan Exiles Plummet as China Tightens Grip Saransh Sehgal, Deutsche Welle America Needs to Put the Renminbi Back on the International Agenda Mark Sobel, Brad Setser and Robin Brooks, Financial Times
May 20, 2026 Foreign Influence in the Campaign Against American AI Sam Lyman, Bitcoin Policy Institute Sharp Eyes: Mass Surveillance of Foreigners in China — Part 1 NetAskari Russians Covertly Trained by China Return to Fight in Ukraine, Sources Say Reuters China Confirms It Will Buy 200 Boeing Jets After Trump-Xi Summit Peter Hoskins, BBC Taiwan Writer Wins International Booker for ‘Slyly Sophisticated’ Novel AFP Christians Arrested in China Over Children's Sunday School Classes Tola Mbakwe, Premier Christian News
May 19, 2026 Xi Jinping Told Donald Trump That Putin Might ‘Regret’ Invasion of Ukraine Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times Trump’s Shifting Remarks on Taiwan Are Perfect for China to Exploit Alastair McCready and Yu-chen Li, The Guardian Experts Criticize Venture Capitalist’s Claim Taiwan Will Be ‘Unimportant’ in 18 Months Keoni Everington, Taiwan News Taiwan Is a ‘Model Ally,’ Not Trade Bait Mark Montgomery, Defense One Marcos Says Philippines Would Be Involved in Any Taiwan Conflict Cliff Harvey Venzon, Bloomberg China Condemns Conservative MP’s Taiwan Trip After Ambassador’s Warning Sean Previl, Global News KMT Lawmaker Proposes Cutting NTD 576 Million in Drone Spending Medwin Hsu, Taiwan News Defense Groups Clamor to Delay U.S. Ban on Chinese Rare Earth Magnets Camilla Hodgson and Alex Rogers, Financial Times Hong Kong Court Must Not ‘Pay Lip Service’ to Human Rights, Lawyer Tells Trial of Tiananmen Vigil Activists Hans Tse, Hong Kong Free Press
May 18, 2026 Trump Says ‘Nothing’s Changed’ on Taiwan. But His Words Belie a Big Shift Jesse Johnson, The Japan Times Taiwan Says Is an ‘Independent’ Nation, After Trump’s Warning Allison Jackson and Joy Chiang, AFP Trump’s Dangerous Taiwan Gamble Ryan Hass, Brookings Trump Says Xi Signaled Release of Hong Kong Media Mogul Jimmy Lai Unlikely AFP Hong Kong Court Hears Final Arguments in the Trial of Tiananmen Vigil Organizers Kanis Leung, The Associated Press Top U.K. Civil Servant Held Nuclear Talks With ‘Front’ for Chinese Spy Agency Eric Williams, The Telegraph China Seeks Local Collaborators Taipei Times China’s Secretive Missile Program Is Making Dozens of Companies Rich Bloomberg PLA Reshapes Military Theory Development System for Future Warfare K. Tristan Tang, The Jamestown Foundation
May 15, 2026 Transcript: President Trump and President Xi Deliver Formal Toasts at State Banquet The Singju Post U.S. Taiwan Policy Unchanged After Trump-Xi Summit in Beijing: Rubio Shih Hsiu-chuan, CNA Trump Bare Knuckles His Way Through China Summit Without His Trusty Cellphone Emily Goodin, New York Post DPP, KMT Spar Over Funding Options for Weapons Excluded From Budget Bill Lin Ching-yin, Wang Cheng-chung, Chen Chun-hua and Sean Lin, CNA Jaw Says KMT Rushed Arms Budget to Preempt Trump-Xi Deal David Frazier, Taipei Times U.S. Citizen Convicted of Running Secret Chinese ‘Police Station’ in New York Nardine Saad, BBC Two Chinese Nationals Sentenced to Prison for Filming Korean, U.S. Air Bases Yonhap Tai Po Fire Survivor and Petition Organizer Jason Kong Arrested With Wife Over Alleged Government Loan Fraud Hong Kong Free Press
May 14, 2026 Xi Warns Taiwan Issue Could Push U.S. Ties to a ‘Dangerous’ Place Taipei Times Donald Trump’s Plan to Discuss Taiwan Arms Sales With Xi Jinping Rattles Asian Allies Demetri Sevastopulo, Joe Leahy and James Politi Bipartisan Senators Warn Against ‘Unilateral Changes’ to Taiwan Policy Tara Suter, The Hill U.S. Clears H200 Chip Sales to 10 China Firms as Nvidia CEO Looks for Breakthrough Reuters Jailed Activist Joshua Wong to Face Foreign Collusion Charge at High Court as Transfer Procedures Completed Hillary Leung, Hong Kong Free Press Surprise FBI Corruption Raid in Lancaster Linked to Influential Chinese Automaker BYD Ben Chapman, New York Post Acclaimed Biologist Xu Xianzhong Returns to China After Arrests in His U.S. Lab Shi Huang, South China Morning Post AI Disinformation? Singapore Accused in Pro-China Videos of Being ‘Ungrateful’ Kolette Lim, South China Morning Post We Joined a Taiwan Coast Guard Mission on the Front Line Against China Todd Johnson and Joyu Wang, The Wall Street Journal