September 22, 2025 Trump and Xi Discuss Future of TikTok in U.S. Bernd Debusmann Jrat and Lily Jamali, BBC U.S. House Lawmakers Make Rare China Visit to Stabilize Ties Reuters Covid-19 Whistle-Blower Zhang Zhan Sentenced Again Reuters Hong Kong Chief Pledges to Continue National Security Crackdown in Key Annual Address Arpan Rai, The Independent Beijing Could Build Research Lab at Scarborough Shoal, Top South China Sea Expert Says Victoria Bela, South China Morning Post ‘No Time to Lose’: Lai Urges Broad Taiwan Defense and Resilience Buildup Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia Uyghur Camp Survivor Details Forced Sterilization, Torture in Xinjiang Frud Bezhan and Meliha Kesmer, RFE/RL How ‘Safe China’ Sells Its Security Strategy to the World Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Financial Times
September 19, 2025 Trump Nixed $400 Million in Taiwan Military Aid, Pushing Future Arms Sales Noah Robertson and Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post Nvidia to Invest $5 Billion in Intel, Furthering Trump’s Turnaround Plan Robbie Whelan, Amrith Ramkumar, Lauren Thomas and Joseph De Avila, The Wall Street Journal Jensen Huang Walks an AI Tightrope Between the U.S. and China Amrith Ramkumar, Raffaele Huang and Robbie Whelan, The Wall Street Journal China Says It Wants to Protect Coral Reefs in the South China Sea. Experts Are Doubtful Fu Ting and Ken Moritsugu, The Associated Press China Defense Minister Denounces ‘Hegemonic Logic’ at Beijing Forum AFP China’s New Giant Underwater Drone Increases Naval Mine Threat Around Taiwan H I Sutton, Naval News
September 18, 2025 China Bans Tech Companies From Buying Nvidia’s AI Chips Zijing Wu, Cheng Leng and Tim Bradshaw, Financial Times U.S. Targets China’s Grip on Global Ports in Sweeping Maritime Mission Jonathan Saul, Reuters U.S. Wins Release of Wells Fargo Banker Barred From Leaving China, Sources Say Laurie Chen, Reuters Calls Made for an Inquiry After China Spy Case Is Dropped, Amid Fears It Has Made Britain a ‘Soft Target’ Rebecca Camber and Martin Beckford, Daily Mail Taiwan Pledges $10 Billion in U.S. Farm Product Purchases Over Four Years Chung Yu-chen and Joseph Yeh, CNA Labor, Environmental Abuses Detailed in China’s Vast Squid Harvests Katrina Northrop, The Washington Post How China Became a Wedge Between Two South Pacific Neighbors Victoria Kim, The New York Times
September 17, 2025 Beijing Says Tiktok’s U.S. App Will Use Chinese Algorithm Ryan McMorrow, Hannah Murphy, Zijing Wu and Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times Meta Struggles to Decouple From Chinese Supplier of AI Smart Glasses Hannah Murphy and Eleanor Olcott, Financial Times China Fires Water Cannons at Over 10 Philippine Ships Reuters Taiwan Launches New Civil Defense Guide, Says Not Aiming to Cause Panic Reuters Searching for Taiwan’s South China Sea Policy Under Lai Ching-te Thomas J. Shattuck, Foreign Policy Research Institute U.S., U.K. Warships Transit Taiwan Strait, Pentagon Confirms Sam LaGrone, USNI News Dropping China Spy Charges Will Embolden Our Enemies, Warn MPs Fiona Hamilton, Matt Dathan and Ed Halford, The Times
September 16, 2025 In Latest Trade Warning to U.S., China Says Nvidia Violated Anti-Monopoly Law Eduardo Baptista and Arsheeya Bajwa, Reuters U.S. and China Reach a Framework Deal for the Ownership of TikTok Josh Boak, Suman Naishadham and Didi Tang, The Associated Press Charges Dropped Against Two Men Accused of Spying for China Maia Davies, BBC The British Political Prisoner Caught in the Middle of Starmer’s Detente With China Allegra Mendelson, The Telegraph For Beijing’s Foreign Disinformation, the Era of AI-Driven Operations Has Arrived Sarah Cook, The Diplomat AIT Comments on Taiwan Accurate: State Department CNA Philippines Rejects Chinese Scarborough Shoal Nature Reserve Claim Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News Criminal Organizations as Vectors of Influence in Taiwan Martin Purbrick, The Jamestown Foundation
September 15, 2025 Tariffs and Fentanyl Issue Cloud Prospects of Donald Trump-Xi Jinping Summit in Beijing Demetri Sevastopulo and Joe Leahy, Financial Times Rubio Quietly Signals U.S. Won’t Sink Submarine Deal With Australia Noah Robertson and Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post Albanese Government Pours $12 Billion Into Expanding Aukus Defence Facility Near Perth Samantha Dick and Maani Truu, ABC News China’s Great Firewall Suffers Its Biggest Leak Ever as 500 Gigabytes of Source Code and Docs Spill Online — Censorship Tool Has Been Sold to Three Different Countries Luke James, Tom’s Hardware Pacific Leaders Reject Chinese Push to Erase Taiwan From the Region Michael Read, Australian Financial Review China Pilots Village Surveillance in Solomon Islands Reuters China’s Military Warns Philippines Against Provocations in South China Sea Reuters Taiwan Sends Agricultural Buying Mission to U.S. Joseph Yeh, CNA
September 12, 2025 Trump Withdraws Nomination of China Hawk for Key Post in U.S.-Sino Tech Battle Karen Freifeld, Reuters Bessent, Chinese Vice Premier to Meet in Madrid Next Week on Trade, TikTok David Lawder, Reuters Approving China Embassy Would Be Unlawful, U.K. Government Told Damian Grammaticas, BBC News LGBTQ Activists ‘Disappointed’ as Same-Sex Partners Bill Vetoed; Beijing Says Outcome Shows Legco Not ‘Rubber Stamp’ Kelly Ho, Hong Kong Free Press MPs Around the World Urge Leaders to Follow Trump’s Call for Jimmy Lai’s Release Alix Culbertson, Sky News Apex Aviation Confirms China Military Jet Buzzed Medevac Plane in June Sunny Lai, CNA Taiwan Reaffirms Sovereignty Amid PRC Plans for South China Sea Nature Reserve Joseph Yeh, CNA Inside Taiwan’s Fight to Protect Its Vital Undersea Cables Cheng Ting-fang, Lauly Li and Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia How the Infamous APT-1 Report Exposing China’s PLA Hackers Came to Be Kim Zetter, Zero Day
September 11, 2025 China Approves Nature Reserve at Disputed South China Sea Shoal Claimed by the Philippines The Associated Press Top Chinese and U.S. Envoys’ Talks Pave Way for Xi, Trump Meeting Courtney McBride, Josh Xiao, and Eric Martin, Bloomberg House Lawmakers to Make Official Visit to China for the First Time Since 2019 Scott Wong, NBC News NASA Blocks Chinese Citizens With U.S. Visas From Working on Space Programs Eric Roston, Sana Pashankar and Loren Grush, Bloomberg Pacific Islands Leaders to Back ‘Ocean of Peace’ at Summit Clouded by China Tensions Ben Strang, AFP Vanuatu Delays $330 Million Australia Security Pact Over Chinese Funding Concerns Rod McGuirk, The Associated Press Facing New China ‘Gray-Zone’ Threat, Taiwan Steps Up Sea Cable Patrols Reuters Pope Leo XIV Creates ‘New’ China Diocese Amid Diocesan Border Dispute With Beijing Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency
September 10, 2025 Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World Zeyi Yang, Wired Leaked Files Show a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall’s Censorship Technology James Griffiths, The Globe and Mail Report Points to Alarming Rates of Sexual and Physical Violence in Hong Kong Prisons Alisha Rahaman Sarkar, The Independent Rights Advocates Demand U.N. Press China on Abuses in Xinjiang Nina Larson, AFP What Did China’s Victory Parade Reveal About PLA Space, Cyber, Information War Plans? Seong Hyeon ChoiandLiu Zhen, South China Morning Post Taiwan Needs Real-time Awareness Peter Mattis, Taipei Times KMT Seeks Next Leader as Taiwan’s Political Drama Simmers Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia The Kids Are in the House: Taiwan’s NSC Politicized Wendell Minnick, China In Arms
September 9, 2025 Hong Kong Political Prisoners Face Physical and Sexual Abuse, Report Says Kris Cheng, Nikkei Asia U.S. Tech Companies Enabled the Surveillance and Detention of Hundreds of Thousands in China Dake Kang and Yael Grauer, The Associated Press China and Russia Increasingly Working ‘in Tandem’ to Undermine Faith in Governance, Top Finnish Official Claims Tom McIlroy, The Guardian Three Taiwanese Entertainers Investigated for Reposting ‘United Front’ Statements Have Dual Nationality Chen Yu-fu and Esme Yeh, Taipei Times Taiwan Boosts Spending in Latin America as Beijing Works to Poach Allies Lawrence Chung, South China Morning Post Taiwan ‘Welcomes’ Transit of Australia, Canadian Warships in Taiwan Strait Joseph Yeh, CNA In Their Own Words: China’s National Security in the New Era China Aerospace Studies Institute
September 8, 2025 I Was an American Political Prisoner in Hong Kong — and Saw the Savagery and Squalor Firsthand Samuel Bickett, New York Post Trump Quietly Preparing to Travel Next Month to South Korea, Where He Could Sit Down With China’s Leader Alayna Treene, CNN How China’s New Naval and Air Sites Would Aid an Attack on Taiwan Niharika Mandhana and Camille Bressange, The Wall Street Journal Reuters Withdraws Xi, Putin Longevity Video After China State TV Pulls Legal Permission to Use It Reuters Pentagon-Funded Research at Colleges Has Aided the Chinese Military, a House GOP Report Says Didi Tang and Collin Binkley, The Associated Press China’s Military Follows Australian and Canadian Warships in Taiwan Strait Accusing Them of ‘Provocation’ Reuters U.S. Coast Guard Intercepts Two Chinese Research Ships in Disputed Portions of the Arctic Ocean James Brooks, Alaska Beacon
September 5, 2025 U.S. and Taiwanese Defense Officials Held Secret Talks in Alaska Demetri Sevastopulo and Kathrin Hille, Financial Times Anthropic to Stop Selling AI Services to Majority Chinese-Owned Groups Demetri Sevastopulo and Cristina Criddle, Financial Times Chinese President Xi Holds Talks With North Korean Leader Kim in Beijing AFP Chinese Military Parade Details New Naval Missiles, Drones Alex Luck, Naval News Taiwanese Army Orders Thousands of U.S. Stinger Missiles Lo Tien-pin and Jake Chung, Taipei Times Nuclear Weapons at China’s 2025 Victory Day Parade Hans Kristensen, Eliana Johns, Matt Korda and Mackenzie Knight-Boyle, Federation of American Scientists Police Say Chinese Tourist Trespassed Into Air Force Base on Okinawa Brian Mcelhiney and Hana Kusumoto Singapore Thrived in a U.S.-Led World. Now What? Hal Brands, Bloomberg