August 19, 2025 Hong Kong Democrat Jimmy Lai Given Heart Monitor for Final Stretch of Marathon Trial Jessie Pang and James Pomfret, Reuters Taiwan’s Growing Distrust of the United States Bonnie S. Glaser and Jennifer Lan, German Marshall Fund In Northern Michigan, Thousands of Troops Train for Combat Across the Pacific Phillip Walter Wellman, Stars and Stripes Taiwanese Public Servants to Be Checked for Chinese IDs Starting in 2026 Lu Chia-jung and Wu Kuan-hsien, CNA Taiwan After the Great Recalls: Toward a New Political Equilibrium? Kharis Templeman, Brookings Surge in Chinese Acquisitions of U.K. Private Schools Max Kendix and Nicola Woolcock, The Times After Recent Tests, China Appears Likely to Beat the United States Back to the Moon Eric Berger, Ars Technica Trump Is Pushing India Back Toward China David Pierson and Alex Travelli, The New York Times
August 18, 2025 Trump Says Xi Told Him China Will Not Invade Taiwan While He Is U.S. President Jasper Ward, Reuters Trump’s Putin Dalliance Places Taiwan in Peril Iain Duncan Smith, The Telegraph America’s Support for Taiwan Is at a Critical Juncture Alexander B. Gray, The Diplomat Why the U.S. and China Are Playing Nice Scott Kennedy, Time What the World Is About to Learn About China’s Extra-Large Underwater Drones H I Sutton, Naval News Hong Kong to Continue Implementing ‘Patriotic Education,’ Leader John Lee Says James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press Mandarin With Taiwanese Characteristics: Taipei Leverages Language as Soft Power Tool Yip Wai Lee, Straits Times
August 15, 2025 How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator Max Bearak and Mira Rojanasakul, The New York Times Jimmy Lai Trial: Closing Arguments Further Postponed Due ‘Medical Issue’ With Media Mogul’s Heart Hans Tse, Hong Kong Free Press Solomon Islands Says China Not Influencing Diplomatic Decisions AFP ‘Nobody Else Knew’: Allied Prisoners of War Held in Taiwan Allison Jackson, AFP Electronic Warfare Pod for Taiwan’s F-CK-1 Fighter Is in Testing Thomas Newdick, The War Zone Two Chinese Nationals Charged With Flying Drone Over Restricted Area in Malaysia Bernama Leaked Emails Expose Plot to Get Aussie Cybersecurity CEO Fired Over China Social Media Posts Max Aitchison, The Daily Mail
August 14, 2025 U.S. Embeds Trackers in AI Chip Shipments to Catch Diversions to China, Sources Say Fanny Potkin, Karen Freifeld and Jun Yuan Yong, Reuters Bessent Sees Nvidia, AMD China Agreements as a Model for Others Bloomberg China Fighter Jet Comes Within 200 Feet of Philippine Aircraft Over Scarborough Shoal Bianca Dava, ABS-CBN News USV Maker Seasats Says Drone Came Within Meters of Chinese Warship During Pacific Transit Justin Katz, Breaking Defense Taiwan’s New Naval Drones Could Strike Any Chinese Invasion H I Sutton, Naval News Hong Kong Court to Hear Closing Submissions in Jimmy Lai Trial Hans Tse, Hong Kong Free Press Taiwanese Foreign Minister Confirms Japan Trip, Says China’s Backlash Won’t Hurt Ties With Tokyo Joseph Yeh, CNA NGOs Urge U.K. to Probe Telegraph Newspaper Sale Over ‘China’ Ties AFP
August 13, 2025 Singapore Fighter Jet ‘Bed Down’ Canceled Nestor Licanto, The Guam Daily Post China Urges Firms to Avoid Nvidia H20 Chips After Trump Resumes Sales Mackenzie Hawkins and Ian King, Bloomberg New AIT Deputy Director Karin M. Lang Takes Office Lery Hiciano, Taipei Times China Cuts Ties With Czech President Over Dalai Lama Visit Andrea Dudik, Bloomberg Unprecedented Chinese Icebreaker Deployment Off Alaska Being Monitored By U.S. Howard Altman, The War Zone U.S.’ Annual China Human Rights Review Shorter, Remains Sharply Critical Bochen Han, South China Morning Post
August 12, 2025 U.S., China Extend Tariff Truce by 90 Days, Staving Off Surge in Duties Trevor Hunnicutt, Andrea Shalal and Joe Cash, Reuters Why Peak China May Finally Have Arrived George Magnus, The Guardian Chinese ‘Overkill’ in Dispute With Philippines Damaged Two Chinese Ships. Why It Could Have Been Much Worse Brad Lendon and Kathleen Magramo, CNN China Fired Warning Shots at Japan Destroyer in 2024 Entry: Sources Kyodo News China Creates World’s No. 1 Shipbuilder, Driven by Rivalry With U.S. Clarence Leong, Costas Paris, The Wall Street Journal China’s New ‘Air Silk Road’ Brings Thousands of Tons of Goods From Xinjiang to Europe Graham Lanktree and Hanne Cokelaere, Politico ‘I Don’t Expect to Live a Normal Life’: How a Leeds Teenager Woke Up With a Chinese Bounty on Her Head Tom Levitt, The Guardian
August 11, 2025 Canaries in the U.S.-Taiwan Coal Mine Rupert Hammond-Chambers, Taipei Times Nvidia and AMD to Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Revenues to U.S. Government Demetri Sevastopulo and Michael Acton, Financial Times China Detains Senior Diplomat Who Aided U.S. Relations Chun Han Wong and Lingling Wei, The Wall Street Journal ‘Irregular’ Chinese Flotilla Spotted in Luzon Strait Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News Simulated Chinese Blockade of Taiwan Reveals Singapore as Lifeline Greg Torode, Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee, Reuters The CIA Spy Who Thwarted Taiwan’s Nuclear Plans Timothy McLaughlin, Bloomberg The Engineering Marvel That China Hopes Will Help Wean It Off Foreign Energy Austin Ramzy, The Wall Street Journal A New World Cop on the Beat? China’s Internal Security Outreach Under the Global Security Initiative Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Isaac B. Kardon and Cameron Waltz, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
August 8, 2025 Trump Demands ‘Highly Conflicted’ Intel CEO Resign Over China Ties Aditya Soni, Reuters China’s Exports Keep Defying Expectations With Accelerating Growth in July Hannah Miao, The Wall Street Journal China, U.S. and Taiwan All Locked Out of Pacific Islands Forum Meeting Sophie Mak, Nikkei Asia Penny Wong Complained to China About Intimidation of Exiled Hong Kong Pro-democracy Campaigners Henry Belot, The Guardian Taiwan to Tighten Residency Rules for Chinese Nationals Kao Hua-chien and Sunny Lai, CNA Taiwan Mulls Curbing Chinese Cars Imported from Third Countries Yian Lee, Bloomberg
August 7, 2025 Hong Kong Security Chief Defends Tightened Prison Rules, Citing Need to Safeguard National Security Irene Chan, Hong Kong Free Press Ministers Ask China to Explain Redacted Designs for London ‘Super-Embassy’ Eleni Courea, The Guardian Taiwan Detains TSMC Staff for Alleged Theft of Key Technology Trade Secrets Wayne Chang, CNN Police Deployed in China to Quell Teen Bullying Case Protest Yuanyue Dang, South China Morning Post China Turns to A.I. in Information Warfare Julian E. Barnes, The New York Times Taiwanese Film Pulled From Hong Kong Festival Over Censorship Issue Chen Kai-yu and Sunny Lai, CNA
August 6, 2025 Xi Jinping’s Bestseller, the Resistance Manual of the President Who Lived Seven Years in a Cave Lucas de la Cal, El Mundo America Spain’s Huawei Deal Is a Wake-Up Call for U.S. Federal Procurement Reform Daria Bahrami, War on the Rocks Kmart Denies Sourcing Any Products From Factories Linked to Forced Labor in China Lucy Kent, ABC News U.S. Lawmakers Want to Root Out Any Chinese Seafood From the Military Over Uyghur Labor Nathan Strout, SeafoodSource Explainer: Hong Kong’s National Security Crackdown – Month 61 Hong Kong Free Press Chinese Carrier Aviation Taking Off in 2025 Alex Luck, Naval News U.S. Attack Drones Delivered to Taiwan’s Army: Minister Matt Yu and Wu Kuan-hsien, CNA
August 5, 2025 Does the Trump Administration Have a China Strategy? Ryan Hass, Taipei Times Taiwan’s Civil Society Is Not Ready for War Dmytro Burtsev and Vita Golod, The Diplomat Taiwan Close to Record Deal With Alaska for Six Million Tons of LNG: Governor Chung Yu-chen and Chao Yen-hsiang, CNA China’s Third Tailless Next-Generation Aircraft Emerges David Cenciotti, The Aviationist Hong Kong Cancels Passports of 12 Activists Wanted Under National Sec Law After Involvement With Overseas Group James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press China, U.S. Could Be Excluded From Pacific Islands Forum Amid Pressure Over Taiwan Chrisnrita Aumanu-Leong, ABC News
August 4, 2025 Some Chinese Weigh Painful Question: Stay or Flee Under Trump? Alicia Chen, The New York Times China's Solar Giants Quietly Shed a Third of Their Workforces Last Year Colleen Howe, Reuters Chinese Manufacturers Rethink Southeast Asia Pivot After Donald Trump’s Tariffs William Langley, Financial Times Trump’s AI Strategy Against China Gets Its First Big Test Amrith Ramkumar, The Wall Street Journal Boris Johnson to Visit Taiwan for Indo-Pacific Security Forum Focus Taiwan China, U.S. Could Be Excluded From Pacific Islands Forum Amid Pressure Over Taiwan Stephen Dziedzic and Chrisnrita Aumanu-Leong, Australian Broadcasting Corporation