October 1, 2025 China Sends 2,000 Workers to Build Battery Power in Europe Barney Jopson, Kana Inagaki and Joe Leahy, Financial Times Taiwan Now Biggest Importer of Russian Naphtha Despite Being Ukraine Ally Amy Hawkins, The Guardian ‘She Didn’t Realize How Dangerous It Was’: London-Bound Student Held in China Over Tibet Support Jessie Lau, The Guardian Photo Captures Bessent Text Conversation About Rollins’s Argentina, China Concerns Brady Knox, Washington Examiner Commentary: Why China Has Said Little About Vietnam’s South China Sea Build-up Koh Swee Lean Collin, Channel News Asia China’s Cyberattacks, Electronic Espionage Subverting U.S. and Its Allies, Report Says Bill Gertz, The Washington Times The CCP’s Hybrid Warfare Is Already Here Macdonald-Laurier Institute Critics Say Hong Kong Cardinal Is Whitewashing China’s Religious Persecution Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register
September 30, 2025 Xi Pushes Trump to Oppose Taiwan Independence in Major Shift Jenny Leonard and Eric Martin, Bloomberg Hong Kong Leader Mum on Extradition Request After Wanted Activist Nathan Law Denied Singapore Entry James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press U.S. Expands Export Blacklist in Crackdown on Chinese Subsidiaries Karen Freifeld, Reuters China’s New K Visa Beckons Foreign Tech Talent as U.S. Hikes H-1B Fee Eduardo Baptista, Reuters Pentagon Review Reportedly Confirms AUKUS Submarines Pact Is Safe Dan Jervis-Bardy, The Guardian Behind Taiwan’s ‘Unification’ Party, Chinese Espionage — and a Criminal Gang Katrina Northrop and Pei-Lin Wu, The Washington Post
September 29, 2025 Russia Is Helping China to Prepare for a Potential Invasion of Taiwan, defense institute says Emma Burrows, The Associated Press Taiwan’s Waning Sense of Urgency on Defense — and How to Restore It Yen-Chen (Calvin) Chu and Kuang-Cheng Hsu, The Diplomat Are U.S.-Taiwan Relations Off Track? Ryan Hass, Taipei Times Trump Poised to Add Japan Stop to Upcoming Asia Trip Trevor Hunnicutt and Yukiko Toyoda, The Japan Times How China’s Secretive Spy Agency Became a Cyber Powerhouse Chris Buckley and Adam Goldman, The New York Times Why China Hawks Love Talking About AI James Palmer, Foreign Policy Taiwan’s Achilles’ Heel Nathaniel Taplin, The Wire China
September 26, 2025 Is Trump Capitulating to China? Derek Scissors and Zack Cooper, American Enterprise Institute Trump Signs Executive Order Supporting Proposed Deal to Put TikTok Under U.S. Ownership The Associated Press Chinese Premier Signals Desire for Stable U.S. Relations in New York Visit Lingling Wei, The Wall Street Journal Taiwan Foreign Minister Attends Event on Sidelines of U.N. Assembly David Brunnstrom, Reuters Taiwan Sentences Four Ex-Ruling Party Members Over Spying for China AFP Beijing’s ‘Robot Army’ Isn’t Science Fiction. It’s Already Here Ryan Fedasiuk, The National Interest Is This Our Best Look at China’s Tailless J-XDS Stealth Fighter? Tyler Rogoway, The War Zone
September 25, 2025 China’s Xi Takes Veiled Swipe at Trump, Announces Climate Plan Matthew Dalton, The Wall Street Journal China Moves Two Super-Sized ‘XXL’ Uncrewed Submarines to South China Sea H I Sutton, Naval News Alibaba Shares Leap on Nvidia Partnership, Data Center Plans Liam Mo and Eduardo Baptista, Reuters U.S. Customs Detaining Bikes Made By Giant in Taiwan Over Forced-Labor Allegations Steve Frothingham, Bicycle Retailer and Industry News Taiwan Curbs Chip Exports to South Africa in Rare Power Move Debby Wu, Yian Lee and Loni Prinsloo, Bloomberg Washington’s Ironclad Commitments Are Rusting in the Indo-Pacific Gregory H. Winger, Miguel Alberto Gomez and Lauren Sukin, War on the Rocks Trump May Be Abandoning Taiwan to China’s Tender Mercies John Bolton, The Hill China’s Plunging Birth Rate Is a Crisis of Belief Emma Zang, Foreign Policy
September 24, 2025 Huawei Plans Three-Year Campaign to Overtake Nvidia in AI Chips Bloomberg News $37 Billion ‘Stargate of China’ Project Takes Shape — Country Is Converting Farmland Into Data Centers to Centralize AI Compute Power Hassam Nasir, Tom’s Hardware China Rare Earths Issue Remains Unresolved, U.S. Lawmaker Says Bloomberg China to Forego Special and Differential Treatment in Future WTO Negotiations Olivia Le Poidevin, Reuters China Detains Student for Tibet Activism, Rights Group Says Laurie Chen, Reuters Jerome Cohen, the First American to Practice Law in China, Dies at 95 James T. Areddy, The Wall Street Journal China Maritime Report #50: Foggy With a Chance of Surprise Attack: PLA Amphibious Deception in a Taiwan Scenario Ian Easton, CMSI China Maritime Reports
September 23, 2025 Top Diplomats From U.S., South Korea, Japan Voice Concern on Taiwan Strait Reuters U.S. Reassures Taiwan on Its Support: Source Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times Nobody Lost Taiwan: The Island Remains Secure and Stable — for Now Philip H. Gordon and Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs Taiwanese Conscript Undergoing Surgery After Rifle Shooting Accident Joseph Yeh, CNA Cracking the PLA Cipher: Self-Revolution Aims to Forge the Edge Solo Wing Fort Drum Shows How States Can Push Back on China’s Maritime Aggression Ron J. Lienhardt, War on the Rocks
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