May 13, 2026 A Decade on, Trump Returns to a Stronger and More Assertive China Laura Bicker, BBC Resisting Xi’s Designs in the Year of the (Trojan) Horse Matt Pottinger and Liza Tobin, Freedom Frequency Linguistic Workaround Allows Marco Rubio, Sanctioned by Beijing, to Travel to China for the First Time The Guardian Los Angeles-Area Mayor to Plead Guilty to Acting as Chinese Propaganda Agent Steve Gorman, Reuters Southern California Mayor Who Worked as Secret Agent for China Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg, Says Los Angeles’s Top Federal Prosecutor Ben Chapman, New York Post U.S. Affirms Commitments Amid Trump’s Remarks on Taiwan Arms Sales Elaine Hou and Joseph Yeh, CNA GlobalGiving to Change Taiwan’s Name to ‘Chinese Taipei’ on Its Funding Platform, Citing China ‘Requirements’ Tom Grundy, Hong Kong Free Press No Country for American Reporters Eliot Chen, The Wire China
May 12, 2026 Trump to Discuss Taiwan Arms Sales, Jailed Hong Kong Tycoon Jimmy Lai With Xi Nandita Bose and Kanishka Singh, Reuters Trump and Xi Dialed Down the Trade War, but Challenges Lurk at Their China Summit Josh Boak and Didi Tang, The Associated Press Elon Musk, Apple’s Cook and Boeing CEO Going to China With Trump, Official Says David Shepardson, Trevor Hunnicutt and Karen Freifeld, Reuters Nvidia’s CEO to Miss China Trip After Year of Travels With Trump Michael Shepard, Maggie Eastland and Jeff Mason, Bloomberg U.S. Senators Urge Expedited Taiwan Arms Sale Chen Cheng-liang and William Hetherington, Taipei Times Here’s How China plans to Sanction-Proof Its C919 Passenger Jet Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post Siloed Silos and Analytical Failures Decker Eveleth, Hor d’Oeuvres of Battle We Don’t Have Anything Near the Inventory for a China Fight Max Boot, The Washington Post How Do Taiwanese Feel About the Cheng-Xi Meeting? Lev Nachman and Wei-Ting Yen, Brookings
May 11, 2026 An Emboldened New China Poses Trouble for Trump Yanzhong Huang, The New York Times Trump’s Deal Making With Xi Next Week May Determine Hong Kong Jailed Activist Jimmy Lai’s Fate Kanis Leung, Associated Press U.S. Concerned by Taiwan Defense Delay ‘Concession’ to China Reuters Taiwan’s Defense Budget Facing Paralysis Gahon Chiang, Taipei Times HIMARS to Be Deployed to Taiwan’s Outlying Islands Lo Tien-pin and Kayleigh Madjar, Taipei Times How China May Have Sought to Recruit a House Aide to Spy on the U.S. Dustin Volz, The New York Times Wanted ‘Hong Kong Parliament’ Member May Be Deported From Thailand Matthew Cheng, South China Morning Post
May 8, 2026 China May Try ‘Maneuevring’ Over Taiwan Issue at Trump Meeting, Taiwanese Official Says Reuters Nephew of Taiwanese Minister Forced to Quit Job in China Shelley Shan, Taipei Times Two Men Found Guilty of Spying for Hong Kong by London Jury Kris Cheng, Nikkei Asia Japan Pivots Indo-Pacific Strategy Toward Southeast Asia David Hutt, Deutsche Welle The Canadian Who Spent Over 1,000 Days in Chinese Prison Warns Ottawa Is Walking Into Beijing’s Trade Trap Sam Cooper, The Bureau
May 7, 2026 ‘They Have Built a Machine That Pulls Out Their Mother Tongue’: Why Tibet’s Children Think They Are Chinese Kris Cheng, The Guardian Taiwanese News Host Faces China Espionage Charges Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times Japan, Philippines Launch Working Group on Transfer of Abukuma-Class Destroyer Escorts Kosuke Takahashi, Naval News The Secret Government Intelligence Unit Fighting for Its Own Survival James King, The Canberra Times Pentagon Paying Chinese-Linked Firm to Vet Beijing Military Threats, Critics Warn Bill Gertz, The Washington Times Donovan’s Deep Dives: The Special Defense Budget Is a Crucial Test of KMT Leadership and Party Unity Courtney Donovan Smith, Taipei Times Notes From Central Taiwan: The KMT’s Old Defense Game Michael Turton, Taipei Times Chinese Man Detained for Using AI-Generated Image of KMT Chairwoman Cheng in Livestream Sales Global Times
May 6, 2026 Trump, Xi Likely to Discuss Taiwan Next Week, U.S. Says Reuters Trump Says He Will Raise Jimmy Lai Case With Xi Jinping at Beijing Summit Shweta Sharma, The Independent KMT Fails to Find Consensus on Its Defense Proposal Lin Hsin-han, Taipei Times U.S. Army Fires Tomahawk Missile From New Typhon Launcher During Philippines Drill Leilani Chavez, Army Times Japan to Test More Advanced Weaponry in Australia as ‘Quasi Allies’ Deepen Cooperation Matthew Knott, The Age Australia’s Partnership With Japan Helps Deter China From Starting a War Alex Bristow, The Strategist Is America Missing the Real Fight Behind Taiwan’s Defense Budget? Kevin Ting-chen Sun, The National Interest I’m Leaving China After Eight Years. Suspicion of Outsiders Is Rising Yoko Kubota, The Wall Street Journal
May 5, 2026 Taiwan Won’t Give in to Pressure, President Says of Africa Trip China Tried to Stop Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang, Reuters Taiwan’s First Indigenous Defense Submarine Begins 13th Sea Trial, July Delivery Eyed Hung Chen-hung and Fion Khan, Taipei Times China Cover-Up After Pilot Killed 132 by Flying Plane Into Mountain Charles Bremmer, The Times Tim Cook Built Apple in China, but Beijing Owns the Keys Geoffrey Cain, Commonplace Is There a China Strategy Behind the Iran War? Michael Sobolik and Grant Rumley, The Dispatch Xi’s Forever Purge Neil Thomas and Shengyu Wang, Foreign Affairs Guided Autonomy: America Watching in Xi’s China Guoguang Wu, Asia Society Policy Institute
May 4, 2026 Hong Kong Government and Reporters Without Borders Trade Barbs Over Press Freedom Ranking Tom Grundy, Hong Kong Free Press Jensen Says NVIDIA Now Has ‘Zero Percent’ Market Share in China — Says U.S. Export Policy ‘Has Already Largely Backfired’ Anton Shilov, Tom’s Hardware KMT Divided on Defense Budget Lo Kuo-chia, Taipei Times Taiwan Opposition Leader Eyes Trump Meeting After Xi Sitdown Yian Lee, Stephen Engle and Miaojung Lin, Bloomberg Taiwan Announces Tightened Rules for China-Born Spouses Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times Convicted Former Harvard Scientist Rebuilds Brain Computer Lab in China David Kirton, Reuters China Rejects U.S. Sanctions oOn Refineries Over Iran Oil Links AFP
April 30, 2026 Taiwan Tops Beijing’s agenda for Trump-Xi Summit Antoni Slodkowski and Ben Blanchard, Reuters Taiwan Leader’s Last-Minute Plea to Fly Via Europe Was Rejected Jenny Leonard, Yian Lee, and Cindy Wang, Bloomberg Taiwan Activates Backup Communications for Island After Undersea Cable Breaks Ben Blanchard, Reuters Chinese Hackers Spied on Cuban Embassy as U.S. Prepared Blockade Patrick Howell O’Neill, Bloomberg U.S. Missiles Deploy Near Taiwan During Balikatan Exercise, Chinese Action Group Operates Nearby Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News China Is America’s Military Equal Now and in Any Future Fight, Marine General Warns Howard Altman, The War Zone Iran Killed Any Delusions of U.S. Military Domination Over China Jennifer Kavanagh, Responsible Statecraft
April 29, 2026 Cheng Says KMT Could Approve NTD 800 Billion Defense Budget if U.S. Makes Binding Agreement Keoni Everington, Taiwan News U.S. Wants Curbs on China as a Condition for Paying U.N. Dues, Report Says David Brunnstrom, Reuters Philippines Not Concerned Iran War Will Distract U.S. From Region, Top Defense Official Says Karen Lema and Nestor Corrales, Reuters Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Falun Gong Lawsuit Against Tech Company Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times The Mountaintop Mirage: Why Xi’s Military Purges Cannot Produce the Force He Wants Christopher Nye, War on the Rocks MSS Reveals: Foreign Organizations Are Heavily Funding ‘Lying Flat Influencers’ and Systematically Conducting ‘Lying Flat Brainwashing’ Sinocism Phony Whistleblowers, Fake Journalists and Cyber Spies: ICIJ Network Targeted After China Targets Probe Scilla Alecci, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
April 28, 2026 Meta Is Preparing to Have to Undo Its Manus Acquisition After China Ban Raffaele Huang and Meghan Bobrowsky, The Wall Street Journal How China Block of AI Deal Could Stop ‘Singapore-Washing’ AFP U.S. Presses Taiwan Parliament to Pass ‘Comprehensive’ Defense Budget Reuters At U.N., China Denounces Japan and EU Over South China Sea Remarks Arathy Somasekhar and David Brunnstrom, Reuters Top Lobbying Firm Does Bidding of Entity Linked to Uyghur Repression Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner What Five Decades of Summits Reveal About U.S.-China Relations Neil Thomas and Haolan Wang, Foreign Policy The Ugly Side of Eswatini-Taiwan Relations James Baron, The Diplomat
April 27, 2026 Exiled Tibetans to Elect Government in Vote Condemned by China Tenzin Woeden, AFP Ex-Worker of Tokyo Electron Gets 10-year Jail Term in TSMC Trade Secrets Case Wen-Yee Lee, Reuters U.S. Anti-Ship Missiles in the Philippines for Balikatan 2026 Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, Naval News Taiwan Drone Exports Top $100 Million in Q1 Tseng Ting-yun and Lee Hsin-Yin, CNA U.S. Targets China’s Shadow Trade With Iran in Sweeping Sanctions Cate Cadell, The Washington Post China Publishes Maps Detailing Minerals on the Ocean Floor Sachi Kitajima Mulkey, The New York Times Taiwan Should Scrap Its Submarine Daydream Ethan Connell and Jonathan Walberg, Taipei Times