June 6, 2025 Trump Says After Xi Call That U.S. and China Will Resume Trade Talks Will Weissert, Chris Megerian and Didi Tang, The Associated Press Hong Kong Activists, Diaspora Attend Tiananmen Anniversary Vigils Overseas Amid Ban in Home City Hong Kong Free Press Visa Refusal Sparks Fresh Concerns Solomon Islands May Block Taipei From Pacific Forum Stephen Dziedzic and Chrisnrita Leong, ABC News Li Qiang’s Quiet Rise: Why China’s Premier Matters Again Neil Thomas, China File PRC ID Cards and Hybrid Warfare: The Accumulated Impact on Taiwan and Potential Countermeasures Sze-Fung Lee, Global Taiwan Institute How Robust Is China’s Energy Security? Brian Hart, Bonny Lin, Hugh Grant-Chapman, Leon Li, Truly Tinsley, Claire Tiunn and Peter Dazheng Huang, China Power Taiwan Stays on U.S. Currency Manipulation Monitoring List Elaine Hou and Chris Wang, CNA
June 5, 2025 Trump Holds Call With Xi, Chinese Media Says Kevin Breuninger, CNBC A Quiet Tiananmen Square Anniversary Shows China’s Ability to Suppress History Ken Moritsugu and Kanis Leung, The Associated Press China Calls U.S. State Secretary Rubio’s Comments on Tiananmen Square Crackdown an ‘Attack’ AFP Taipei Vigil Draws Around 3,000 to Mark Tiananmen Square Massacre Sunny Lai, CNA Why China Hasn’t Seen Another Tiananmen Movement Yang Jianli, Foreign Policy Taiwan-U.S. Defense Industry Forum to Open in Taipei Elaine Hou and Wu Kuan-hsien, CNA Chinese Nationals Accused of Smuggling ‘Dangerous Biological Pathogen’ Into U.S. Ali Abbas Ahmadi, BBC China’s Gray-Zone Infrastructure Strategy on the Tibetan Plateau: Roads, Dams, and Digital Domination Thomas Hader, Benjamin Jensen, Divya Ramjee and Jose M. Macias III, Center for Strategic & International Studies
June 4, 2025 We Will Never Forget Tiananmen Crackdown, Taiwan and U.S. Say on 36th Anniversary Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard, Reuters Labour Is Cozying Up to China After Years of Rollercoaster Relations Ankur Shah, BBC Newsom Administration Holds Closed-Door ‘Cooperation’ Talks with Chinese Officials Jimmy Quinn, National Review Trump’s Tariff Threat Exposes China’s Tight Grip on the Global Pharmaceuticals Industry John Liu and Yong Xiong, CNN Hong Kong Leader Says Sudden Removal of China’s Top Official in the City Was ‘Normal’ James Pomfret and Clare Jim, Reuters Pentagon Taps China Expert John Noh as Indo-Pacific Point Person Ken Moriyasu, Nikkei Asia Broke but Not (Yet) Bankrupt: Local Government Finance in the Age of Economic Stagnation Minxin Pei, China Leadership Monitor
June 3, 2025 China: Address Tiananmen Massacre 36 Years On Human Rights Watch China Rejects Trump’s Accusation That It Violated Trade Truce Daisuke Wakabayashi, The New York Times President Trump’s Trade Agenda Is On Hold as He Waits on a Call With Xi Jinping Ben Werschkul, Yahoo Finance China's Economy Runs on Uyghur Forced Labor Daniel Murphy, Pulitzer Center International Hotel Giants Are Profiting Despite Genocide in Xinjiang Peter Irwin and Henryk Szadziewski, Foreign Policy A British University’s Technology Entanglements With Russia and China Bethany Allen, Danielle Cave and Adam Ziogas, Australian Strategic Policy Institute Hong Kong Illustrator’s Art Fair Stall Closes After Police Inspect Drawings James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press
June 2, 2025 China Is ‘Preparing’ to Use Military Force in Asia, U.S. Says AFP Going Alone Is Not the Answer to Security Questions: Singapore Defense Minister Wong Pei Ting, The Straits Times China’s Most Advanced Bombers Seen on Disputed South China Sea Island Greg Torode, Reuters Harvard Has Trained So Many Chinese Communist Officials, They Call It Their ‘Party School’ Chun Han Wong, The Wall Street Journal U.S. Special Forces Train With USVs in the Philippines Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, Naval News Taiwanese Army Expected to Receive 42 Abrams Tanks This Month Aaron Tu and William Hetherington, Taipei Times
May 30, 2025 Trump Aims to Exceed First Term’s Weapons Sales to Taiwan, Officials Say Michael Martina, Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard, Reuters Taiwan to Hold Major Drone Boat Test Exercise as It Falls Behind in Fielding This Critical Capability Howard Altman and Tyler Rogoway, The War Zone Revealed: A Key Shipyard in China’s Naval Revolution H I Sutton, Covert Shores Hong Kong National Security Police Question Two Other Relatives of Wanted Activist Joe Tay Kelly Ho, Hong Kong Free Press Pentagon Ends New Radar Effort Meant for Guam Missile Defense Jen Judson, Defense News Indonesia Has a Moral Imperative to Act on Uyghur Persecution Kurniawan Arif Maspul, The Strategist A Signal Point of Failure: Integrating BeiDou Into U.S. Positioning, Navigation and Timing Systems Jesse Humpal, War on the Rocks
May 29, 2025 U.S. Vows to ‘Aggressively’ Oust Chinese Students, Enhance Scrutiny of Visa Applications From China, Hong Kong AFP U.S. Pauses Exports of Airplane and Semiconductor Technology to China Ana Swanson, The New York Times Donald Trump Orders U.S. Chip Software Suppliers to Stop Selling to China Demetri Sevastopulo, Zijing Wu and Michael Acton , The Financial Times Taiwan Monitors Chinese Aircraft Carrier Ahead of Reported Drills Joseph Yeh, CNA Taiwanese Coast Guard Vessels Shadow Four Chinese Coast Guard Ships off Kinmen Islands Sean Lin, CNA Why Taipei and Washington Don’t Always Agree on Taiwan’s U.S. Arms Purchases Poyung Lin and Charles K. S. Wu, The Diplomat China Could Seize Taiwan’s Outlying Islands, U.S. Intelligence Report Warns Arpan Rai, The Independent China’s ‘Colonial Boarding Schools’ Erode Tibetan Identity, Report Says Kenji Kawase, Nikkei Asia Taiwan Trims 2025 Growth Forecast as Tariff Concern Lingers Yian Lee, Bloomberg
May 28, 2025 How China Could Counter U.S. Intervention in War Over Taiwan Joel Wuthnow, War on the Rocks China’s Sex Industry and the Human Trafficking Crisis: A Deepening Human Rights Emergency Jianli Yang and Jeanette Tong, The Diplomat Brazilian Prosecutors Sue China’s BYD Over Allegations of Slave-Like Labor Conditions Associated Press Beijing Targeted Friends of U.S.-Based Reporter Amid Campaign Against Radio Free Asia, Documents Reveal Scilla Alecci, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Cerberus Eyes Darwin Port, Australia Reviews Chinese Control Ben Westcott, Bloomberg China’s New KJ-3000 Airborne Early Warning Radar Jet Seen In Detail In New Image Thomas Newdick, The War Zone Will South Korea Abandon Taiwan (and U.S. Alliance) Under New President? Robert Kelly, 19FortyFive
May 27, 2025 Taiwan to Hold Referendum on Restarting Closed Nuclear Reactor Sing Yee Ong and Cindy Wang, Bloomberg Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council Warns About Use of Chinese apps Chen Yu-fu and Jason Pan, Taipei Times Chinese Woman Investigated for Livestreaming Taipei Schoolchildren Kayleigh Madjar, Taipei Times Hong Kong Tax Chief Says No Specific Groups Targeted, as Independent Online News Sector Face Simultaneous Audits Hong Kong Free Press U.S. Marine NMESIS, Army HIMARS to Deploy to Philippine Islands for KAMANDAG Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News U.S. Aims to Keep Chinese Navy Guessing With New Missile System Gabriele Steinhauser, The Wall Street Journal By Slashing U.S. Funding for the United Nations, Trump Is Empowering China Jana Nelson and Chris Lu, Foreign Affairs Top U.N. Aide Attends Beijing Meeting for China-Backed ‘Slush Fund’ Jimmy Quinn, National Review The Fed Economist Accused of Espionage for Beijing Chun Han Wong and Nick Timiraos, The Wall Street Journal
May 26, 2025 White House Dismisses Scores of National Security Council Staff Ellen Nakashima and Adam Taylor, The Washington Post Long Advantageous, Harvard’s China Ties Become a Political Liability Michael Martina, Reuters Belgium Bugged Anderlecht Football Stadium to Spy on Huawei MEP Lobbying Max Griera, Politico Taiwan’s Probe of ‘Chinese’ Civil Servants in Second Stage Chen Yu-fu and William Hetherington, Taipei Times South Korean Foreign Ministry Voices Concerns Over China’s Establishment of No-Sail Zone in Overlapping Waters Yi Wonju, Yonhap China’s Soft Power Huma Yusuf, Dawn Disappearing Research: Academic Control and Self-Censorship in China Ning Leng and Elizabeth Plantan, The China Journal
May 23, 2025 Tax Audits of Hong Kong Independent News Outlets Are ‘Intimidation Tactics,’ International Media Watchdogs Say Hong Kong Free Press ‘When Power Can Define Madness’: China Accused of Using Mental Health Law to Lock Up Critics Amy Hawkins, The Guardian In Trump Era, Taiwan Defense Chief Says U.S. Still Is a Check on China Amy Chang Chien, Chris Buckley and Meaghan Tobin, The New York Times Tariffs or Not, China’s Infiltration of U.S. Systems Needs New Attention Mira Ricardel, Defense News Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Africa a Development Catalyst or Debt Trap? Magalie Masamba, The Republic Chinese Influence in the Middle East Comes With a Local Accent Joshua Yaphe, The National Interest On Its Own Terms, ASEAN Is Surprisingly Effective The Economist
May 22, 2025 Taiwan’s Ruling Party Expels Five Members Accused of Spying for China AFP U.S. Lawmakers Urge Hotels to Stop Using Term ‘Taiwan, China’ Chung Yu-chen and Wu Kuan-hsien, CNA Hong Kong’s Independent News Sector Face Tax Audits and Demands Hong Kong Free Press China and Russia Plan to Build Nuclear Power Station on Moon Fred Schwaller, Deutsche Welle Turkey Busts Chinese Spying Ring Using Fake Cell Towers Ragip Soylu, Middle East Eye Malaysia Downplays Huawei Deal as U.S. Checks China’s AI Reach Mackenzie Hawkins and Ram Anand, Bloomberg