September 16, 2026 Wealthy Chinese, Tech Talent Confront Tighter Borders as Beijing Widens Exit Controls Anniek Bao, CNBC Scott Bessent to Meet He Lifeng in New York Ahead of Trump-Xi Summit Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times Japan Eyes Defense Spending at 3.5% of GDP, Sources Say Bloomberg South China Morning Post Reporter Minnie Chan Still Missing Three Years After Apparent Disappearance in China Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong Prison Guards Rehearse for Jimmy Lai’s Death The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation U.S. Invests in Critical Minerals but China Maintains Grip Anna Flavia Rochas, Reuters China’s New Giant Submarine Drone Mothership H I Sutton, Naval News China Would Face a ‘Hellscape’ in a War Over Taiwan The Economist Driscoll’s Gave China Its Blueberries — Then China Swiped the Secret to Growing Them Jon Emont, The Wall Street Journal How China Turned Taiwan Tensions Into a Top-Rated TV Spy Drama Yu-chen Li, The Guardian
September 15, 2026 China’s Top Spy Chief Warns AI Is a Threat to Party Rule Lily Kuo, The New York Times Chinese Banking Giant Serves Firms Linked to Oligarchs and Autocrats to Push Beijing’s Agenda Scilla Alecci, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Anthropic Reveals Massive Chinese Anti-Dissident AI-Generated Slander Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter ‘Xi’s Team Came to Her’: FBI Affidavit Says Chinese Businesswoman Gathered Intelligence From U.S. Government Contacts Sam Cooper, The Bureau ‘Hidden Dangers Lurk in Every Corner’: National Security Chief Tells New Police Recruits to Root Out Threats Early Hong Kong Free Press Taiwan to Open New Philippines Mission in Diplomatic Push, Sources Say Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia First Foreign Skilled Workers Arrive for Taiwan Hospitality Sector Agoeng Sunarto and Sunny Lai, CNA Companies Left China to Dodge Tariffs. Now Some Are Heading Back Ellen Zhang and Marius Zaharia, Reuters
September 14, 2026 China Threatens to Cancel Summit if U.S. Approves New Arms Sales to Taiwan Kyodo News Trump Leaves Door Open to Chinese Carmakers Ahead of Summit With Xi Azusa Kawakami, Nikkei Asia Okinawa Election Win May Give Tokyo Freer Hand on Military Buildup Reuters How China Tried to Control the Narrative on the Devastating Floods In Nepal and Tibet Jennifer Pak, Elissa Nadworny and Gabriel J. Sanchez China’s Rocket Achievements Threaten U.S. Space Superiority Kathleen Curlee and Sam Bresnick, Nikkei Asia A U.S. Scholar Was Invited to China. Then He Vanished Robbie Gramer and Yoko Kubota, The Wall Street Journal
September 11, 2026 Hong Kong Tiananmen Vigil Activists Jailed for up to Seven Years, Three Months for Inciting Subversion James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press How Chinese AI Firms Tried to Clone U.S. AI Models Robert McMillan and Amrith Ramkumar, The Wall Street Journal Micron’s Taiwan Workers to Get Rewards Worth up to 68 Months of Pay Wen-Yee Lee, Reuters Taiwan President Promulgates KMT-Backed Drone Bill Fion Khan, Taipei Times U.S. Firm Used AI to Hijack WeChat Account, Spurring Call for Cyber Cooperation With China Xinmei Shen, South China Morning Post Why Beijing Isn’t Taking the Bait With Trump Ryan Hass, Brookings
September 10, 2026 Taiwan Wants to Punish Speech That Welcomes an Invasion. The Cost May Be Its Own Credibility Yu-Yue Cheng, The Jurist What to Know About the Hong Kong Trial of Former Tiananmen Vigil Organizers as Sentencing Approaches Kanis Leung, The Associated Press U.S. Ally Reminds Trump’s America How to Talk Tough on China John Feng, Newsweek Former Emergency Management Minister Expelled From the Communist Party Over Graft Qin Jianhang, Caixin U.S. Trial Against China’s Huawei Opens With Prosecutor Calling the Company a Criminal Enterprise Karen Freifeld, Reuters Some Chinese Workers See an Ally in Brussels as EU Trade Tensions Mount Claire Fu, Reuters
September 9, 2026 Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s First Post-handover Leader, Dies at 89 Hong Kong Free Press China’s Xi to Bring Large CEO Delegation on U.S. Visit, Sources Say Reuters Mitch McConnell’s Wife Elaine Chao Held Appointments From Chinese Communist Party Organizations While Serving In Cabinet Philip Lenczycki, Daily Caller Economic Impact of Taiwan Strait Conflict Could Exceed That of World War II: AIT Chief Chao Yen-hsiang, CNA Will Taiwan Just Give Up? Simon Shuster, The Atlantic The Emerging U.S.-China Detente Da Wei, Foreign Affairs China’s Global Strategy Under Xi Jinping — the Plan to Shift Power From the West Mark Leonard, Financial Times
September 8, 2026 Australia Strikes In-Principle Agreement With Solomon Islands for New Treaty Stephen Dziedzic and Chrisnrita Aumanu-Leong, ABC China Hits Critical Japanese Chipmaking Chemical With Steep Anti-Dumping Measures Ji Siqi, South China Morning Post China’s Huawei Heads to Trial in U.S. Over Sanctions and Trade Secrets Pak Yiu, Nikkei Asia How Tokyo Is Widening Regional Defense Ties to Complicate Beijing’s Taiwan Calculus Gabriel Dominguez, South China Morning Post Elderly Hong Kong Woman Charged With Displaying Seditious Publications Outside Flat, Remanded at Psychiatric Center Hong Kong Free Press China Security Laws Spell Travel Risks Su Yung-yao and William Hetherington, Taipei Times Taiwanese Military Budgets More Arms Production Aaron Tu and William Hetherington, Taipei Times China Has Leapt Ahead of the West. But the British State Can’t See It Ben Judah, The Telegraph Social Media in China Is Getting Really Dark Li Yuan, The New York Times
September 7, 2026 China’s Xi to Bring Large CEO Delegation on U.S. Visit, Sources Say Reuters U.S. and China Eye Trump-Xi Talks on AI Guardrails Despite Tech Rift Stella Yifan Xie and Yifan Yu, Nikkei Asia Xi Snub Reignites Iran’s Doubts About China Maryam Sinaiee, Iran International How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips Ana Swanson, Paul MozurTripp Mickle and Keith Bradsher, The New York Times John J. Tkacik, Jr. On Taiwan: Happy 75th Birthday, Taiwan! John J. Tkacik, Taipei Times U.S. Wants Foreign Warships for Its Navy. Japan Is Hoping to Be Picked Julian Ryall How Taiwan Can Win the Strait Holmes Liao and Dennis Blair, Foreign Affairs Taiwan Needs Firmer Assurances of U.S. Commitment Mina Chen, East Asia Forum
September 4, 2026 Taiwan Condemns China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ Behavior at Pacific Forum Ben Blanchard and Yi-Chin Lee, Reuters U.S., China Debate ‘Nonsensitive’ Tariff Cuts Ahead of Trump-Xi Summit Stella Yifan Xie and Pak Yiu, Nikkei Asia South Korea Reviewing Military Options for Hormuz, No Decision Made, Official Says Heejin Kim and Kyu-Seok Shim, Reuters Three Arrested on Anniversary of 2019 Incident Involving Suspected Police Violence at Hong Kong Metro Station Hong Kong Free Press Language Requirement Change From Cantonese to Chinese Not Targeting Specific Students: Hong Kong University Medical School Hillary Leung, Hong Kong Free Press Britain ‘Hog-Tied’ to China for a Third of Wind Power George Odling, The Telegraph China Is Still Losing the Chip War Damir Marusic, The Washington Post
September 3, 2026 Hong Kong Court Upholds Convictions of Cardinal Joseph Zen, Trustees of 2019 Protester Relief Fund Hans Tse, Hong Kong Free Press As a Teen, He Led Hong Kong Protests. China Is Still Punishing Him Frances Hui, Washington Post China’s Xi Pitches AI Hub as Shanghai Cooperation Organization Casts Itself as Pillar of Stability CK Tan and Yevgeniya Mikhailidi, Nikkei Asia China May Not Match ASML’s Top Tool in Next Decade, UBS Says Sarah Jacob, Bloomberg Google to Expand Taiwan Office Space by 60% Amid AI Infrastructure Push Chao Yen-hsiang, CNA Nonprofit Linked to Alleged Chinese Intelligence Operative Who Targeted U.S. Politicians Has CCP Ties — and Still Places Interns Into Political Offices Across U.S. Isabel Vincent, New York Post
September 2, 2026 Jailed Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Campaigner Joshua Wong Pleads Guilty to Foreign Collusion Charge Hong Kong Free Press China’s Revised Defense Mobilization Law Expands National Wartime Powers Keoni Everington, Taiwan News China Derails Consensus on Communique After U.S.-Hosted G20 Demetri Sevastopulo and Aime Williams, Financial Times American Journalist Sentenced to Two Years for Acting as Agent for China Josh Gerstein, Politico Chinese Shipper COSCO Collects Intel for Beijing With Concealed Equipment, U.S. Officials Say Michael Martina, Reuters New Report Shows PLA Prioritizing Joint Island-Landing Capabilities: Analyst Sean Lin, CNA
September 1, 2026 China Warns of ‘Consequences’ Over Taiwan’s Presence at Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting Stephen Dziedzic, ABC News Great Power Rivalry Threatens to Overshadow a Summit of Some of the World’s Smallest Island Nations Charlotte Graham-McLay, The Associated Press G20 Countries Should Consider More Trade Barriers on China to Cut Imbalances, Bessent Says David Lawder, Reuters Ohio State to Pay $2.1 Million Settlement for Unreported Research Funding From China Bill Gertz, The Washington Times Japan to Beef Up Its Defense With Drones, AI and Missiles, Defense Budget Plans Show Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press A Mysterious Drone. A Mercedes RV. A Chinese Intelligence Puzzle in the New Mexico Desert Katie Bo Lillis and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Taiwan’s Opposition-Baked Drone Bill Is Ineffective Gahon Chiang, Taipei Times China Pressured a U.S. Catholic Group to Censor Its Keynote Speaker. They Complied Zelda Caldwell, National Catholic Register