April 20, 2026 Xinjiang’s Repression of Uyghurs Has Evolved, Not Ended Adrian Zenz, Foreign Policy ‘I Was Tortured in a Chinese Detention Camp for Uyghurs. Starmer’s Approval of a New Embassy Is a Betrayal’ Alex Croft, The Independent FCCC Statement on Recent Attacks on Press Freedom in China Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China TSMC Chases Soaring AI Demand Alan Patterson, EE Times Tesla Seeks Taiwan Chip Engineers for Terafab Project Wen-Yee Lee, Reuters Taiwan Eyes Japan’s New FFM as Frigate Option Tso-Juei Hsu, Naval News Brazilian Official Put China’s BYD on Slave Labor List. Then He Was Fired Ana Ionova, The New York Times
April 17, 2026 China Turns Taiwan’s Own Voices Against It in Information War James Pomfret and Yimou Lee U.S. Senators Urge Passage of Defense Budget in Letter Following Visit Taipei Times U.S. to Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone in Philippines Heather Somerville and Georgia Wells, The Wall Street Journal Former Pro-Democracy Lawmaker Struck Off Hong Kong Medical Register Over National Security Conviction Hans Tse, Hong Kong Free Press Media Exposure of Taiwan Premier’s Baseball Trip Stirs Tokyo-Taipei Tiff Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia Former U.S. Marine Pilot Accused of Training Chinese Aviators Loses Extradition Appeal in Australia CBS News Cheap Drones, Costly Defenses: Middle East War Offers Warning for Taiwan Sean Lin, CNA China Shock 2.0: The Flood of High-Tech Goods That Will Change the World Ryan McMorrow, Sam Fleming, Peter Foster and Joe Leahy, Financial Times Xi Signals Reassessment of Senior Generals K. Tristan Tang. Jamestown
April 16, 2026 Nvidia’s Huang Says Mythos Shows Need for U.S.-China AI Dialogue Maggie Eastland, Bloomberg China: Pressure on Catholics Escalates Human Rights Watch Taiwanese Lawmakers Agree to Budget Process Lin Che-yuan, Lin Hsin-han and Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times Japan to Join Largest Balikatan War Games With 1,400 Troops, Type 88 Missiles Frances Mangosing, Naval News Iran Used Chinese Spy Satellite to Target U.S. Bases Miles Johnson, Peter Andringa, Alison Killing, Charles Clover and Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times China Sharpens Retaliatory Tools Against U.S. Ahead of Trump Summit Chun Han Wong and Yang Jie, The Wall Street Journal Why Did China Buy Up the World’s Ports? Alexander Wooley and Lea Thome, Foreign Policy Americans’ Views of China Have Grown Somewhat More Positive in Recent Years Laura Silver and Laura Clancy, Pew Research Center Detained, Denied, Deported: How Chinese Authorities Attempted to Silence a Uyghur Scholar and Rights Advocate Freedom House
April 15, 2026 China Snaps Up U.S. Chip Tools via Southeast Asia Amid Supply Chain Shift Cheng Ting-fang and Lauly Li, Nikkei Asia South Korea and Japan on Edge as U.S. Shifts Military Assets to Iran War Steven Borowiec and Shotaro Tani, Nikkei Asia U.S. Treasury’s Bessent Says China Has Been Unreliable Partner by Hoarding Oil During War Andrea Shalal, Reuters China Dismisses Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sun Weidong Erin Hale, Al Jazeera Six Taiwanese Military Personnel Sentenced to Prison in Chinese Espionage Case Liu Shih-yi, Hsieh Chun-lin and Wu Kuan-hsien, CNA Indonesia, U.S. Sign ‘Major’ Defense Cooperation Agreement Al Jazeera Leading U.K. Museum Censored Catalogues After Demands by Chinese Printer Matthew Weaver, The Guardian Hong Kong Journalists Association Warns Stalking of Journalists Has ‘Chilling Effect’ on Press Freedom James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press
April 14, 2026 DPP Blasts KMT for 229-Day Delay of General Budget Fion Khan, Taipei Times Taipei Protests Brazil Envoy’s ‘Taiwan Is Part of China’ Remarks Joseph Yeh, CNA Ma Ying-jeou Foundation Says It Found Evidence of Financial Misconduct Lin Hsin-han and Esme Yeh, Taipei Times China’s Kinmen, Matsu Measures May Deepen Taiwan Divisions: Scholars Liao Wen-chi, Wu Wen-jung and Sunny Lai, CNA Taking Liberties With AI Lingua Sinica and David Bandurski Outrage at U.N.: Democracies Enable Iran, China, Cuba to Oversee Human Rights Bodies UN Watch U.S., Indonesia Discussing Proposal Allowing U.S. Military Overflight in Indonesian Airspace, Defense Ministry Says Reuters Preparing for the Worst Eyck Freymann, The Wire China
April 13, 2026 Taiwan’s Political Crisis Is a Security Nightmare Bonnie S. Glaser, Foreign Policy U.S. Intelligence Indicates China Is Preparing Weapons Shipment to Iran Amid Fragile Ceasefire, Sources Say Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, Zachary Cohen China Open to Taiwanese TV and Imports After Opposition Visit Thomas Hale and Edward White, Financial Times ‘Fortress China’ Shows Cracks as Iran War Strains Supply Chains Edward White, Financial Times Taiwan Develops 1,000 Kilometer-Range Cruise Missile Kelvin Chen, Taiwan News Taiwan’s Lai to Visit Eswatini on Second Overseas Trip as President Sunny Lai, CNA 2026 Han Kuang Drills Test Key U.S. Military Rehearsals Matt Yu and Joseph Yeh, CNA A Lesson From 1958 Could Help Deter China From Taking Taiwan Paul J. Smith, Defense One Hong Kong Cantopop Star to Mentor Former 2019 Protesters in Security Bureau Rehabilitation Program Hillary Leung, Hong Kong Free Press
April 10, 2026 Chinese and Taiwanese People Will Unite, Xi Tells Taiwan Opposition Leader in Rare Meeting AFP Compromising With Authoritarian Regimes not a Formula for Peace: Lai Wen Kuei-hsiang and Ko Lin, CNA Canadian Delegation, U.S. Senator Visiting Taiwan Taipei Times Hong Kong Independent Media Outlet Says Reporters ‘Harassed’ and ‘Stalked’ Hong Kong Free Press FCC to Vote on Proposal to Ban Chinese Labs From Testing U.S. Electronics David Shepardson, Reuters The Middle East War Depleted U.S. Weapons. Rebuilding Will Require China‘s Cooperation Daniel Desrochers, Politico How China Built Its Vast Natural Gas Stockpile Keith Bradsher, The New York Times
April 9, 2026 Birds, Not Missiles, Should Fly in the Skies, KMT’s Cheng Says in China Ben Blanchard, Reuters Beijing Uses Cross-Taiwan Strait Exchanges as a ‘United Front’ Tool, Says Taiwan’s Top Security Official Matt Yu and Evelyn Kao, CNA A Hacker Has Allegedly Breached One of China’s Supercomputers and Is Attempting to Sell a Trove of Stolen Data Isaac Yee, CNN All Hong Kong Restaurant Licenses to Have National Security Clauses by September: Minister Tom Grundy, Hong Kong Free Press China Mourned an Education Influencer. The Grief Was a Quiet Revolt Li Yuan, The New York Times America Is Too Dependent on Drugs From China. Worst-Case Scenario Could Be Disastrous Rebeccah Heinrichs and Michael Sobolik, Fox News How the West Is Empowering China’s War Machine Geoffrey Cain, The Spectator The Myth of the PRC’s Overseas Energy Vulnerability Daniel Fu, Jamestown
April 8, 2026 KMT Leader Arrives in China for ‘Peace’ Mission Andrew Silver and Ben Blanchard, Reuters Full Text: Cheng Li-wun’s Speech at Nanjing Welcome Banquet Yuxuan Jia, The East Is Read Taiwan Revokes Privileges of Danish Envoys Over Naming Controversy Lee I-chia, Taipei Times Taiwanese Court Rejects Final Appeal of Former Lieutenant Colonel in Spying for China Case Hollie Younger, Taipei Times China’s Yuan May Be Going Global Faster Than Western Data Suggests, Analysts Say Sylvia Ma, South China Morning Post Brazil Blacklists BYD for Slave Labor Conditions at Its Biggest Plant Outside China Igor Patrick, South China Morning Post Abandoning Canada’s Guardrails. Part Two Terry Glavin, The Real Story
April 7, 2026 Taiwan Opposition Chief Leaves for China ‘Peace’ Mission, Minister Details Warship Deployments Reuters Taiwan Opposition’s Cheng Grabs Reins of Beijing Relations With China Tour Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia Ocean Affairs Council Minister Discloses Locations of Chinese Vessels Around Taiwan Lo Tien-pin and Hollie Younger, Taipei Times Taiwan Security Bureau Warns of Cyberattacks, Election Threats Lai Jyun-tang, Taiwan News CCP Intensifying Cross-Border Aggression: Report Huang Ching-hsuan, Taipei Times Plato Goes to Beijing: Why Xi Jinping Wants China to Become a World Leader in Greek and Latin Studies Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter China Offers Diplomatic Immunity in Bid to Host Oceans Treaty Kenza Bryan, Financial Times
April 6, 2026 Not Just Symbolism: What the KMT Chair’s China Trip Signals for Beijing, Washington and Taipei Lee Gim Siong, Channel News Asia China Creates New Aviation Mystery With Offshore Warning Zones Joyu Wang, The Wall Street Journal Xi Ousts Politburo Member in Deepening Purge of China’s Top Ranks Chun Han Wong, The Wall Street Journal Orban on the Brink: Could Hungary’s Election Dent China’s Influence in Europe? Finbarr Bermingham, South China Morning Post Chinese Firms Market Iran War Intelligence ‘Exposing’ U.S. Forces Cate Cadell and Lyric Li, The Washington Post How Hong Kong Meeting Shows China’s Power In Interpol Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Newsweek Dissident Artist on Trial in China for Satirical Mao Sculptures, Rights Group Says Reuters
April 3, 2026 China Is Building Another Massive Base in the South China Sea Mike Cherney, The Wall Street Journal Iran Using Covert Network to Rebuild Drone Army Tom Cotterill, The Telegraph Taiwan to Strengthen Pratas Islands’ Defences as China Steps Up Pressure Ben Blanchard and Angie Teo, Reuters As Arms Agreements Fray, China Secretly Expands Its Nuclear Weapons Infrastructure Tamara Qiblawi, Thomas Bordeaux, Yong Xiong, Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN U.S. Senators Introduce Bill to Boost Taiwan Drone Cooperation Chang Hsin-yu and Wu Kuan-hsien, CNA Taiwan’s U.S. Envoy Pledges to Improve Amid Workplace Bullying Claims Joseph Yeh, CNA Hong Kong Applies to Seize Jimmy Lai’s ‘Offence-Related’ Properties on National Security Grounds James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press How China’s Newspapers Are Getting 1 Billion People on the Same Page Micah McCartney, Newsweek