April 4, 2025 Taiwan to Test New U.S. Weapons Tested at Han Kuang Drills Fang Wei-li, Lo Tien-pin and Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times Trump Says Deal to Find Buyer for TikTok ‘Very Close’ AFP The Rest of the World Is Bracing for a Flood of Cheap Chinese Goods Jason Douglas and Rebecca Feng, The Wall Street Journal Honduras Looking to Re-enter Taiwanese Market Lin Yi-hua and Sam Garcia, Taipei Times How Deep Are China-Russia Military Ties? Brian Hart, Bonny Lin, Matthew P. Funaiole, Samantha Lu, Hannah Price, Nicholas Kaufman and Gavril Torrijos, China Power Project Trump’s China Ambassador Pick Gets Kid-glove Treatment on Capitol Hill Phelim Kine, Politico
April 3, 2025 Taiwan Calls Trump’s 32% Tariff ‘Deeply Unreasonable’ Teng Pei-ju, CNA Taiwan Needs to Address Trade Barriers After U.S. Tariffs: Economists Liu Chien-ling and Kay Liu, CNA China’s Drills Aim to Test U.S. Response: Scholars Li Ya-wen and Sunny Lai, CNA Two Senior Chinese Communist Party Officials Swap Jobs in ‘Unprecedented’ Move Laurie Chen, Reuters U.S. Bans Government Personnel in China From Romantic or Sexual Relations With Chinese Citizens Dake Kang, Matthew Lee and Didi Tang, The Associated Press Trump’s De Minimis Order Poised to Upend E-Commerce Danielle Kaye and Peter Eavis, The New York Times
April 2, 2025 China Carries Out Live Fire Drills in East China Sea in Escalation of Taiwan Exercises Joe Cash, Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard, Reuters ‘Friends Forever, Never Enemies,’ Chinese Foreign Minister Tells Russia Lidia Kelly, Reuters Russia-Ukraine War: Why China Chose Interests Over Values by Cheng Yawen Thomas des Garets Geddes and James Farquharson, Signification Chinese Developer Under Scrutiny Over Bangkok Tower Collapse During Myanmar Earthquake AFP Philippines Cleared to Buy F-16s at Estimated $5.6 Billion Aaron Mehta, Breaking Defense Autonomous Battlefield: PLA Lessons From Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Sunny Cheung and Joe McReynolds, The Jamestown Foundation Canadian MP Withdraws From Race After Suggesting People Claim China’s Bounty on Political Rival Ashley Burke, CBC News It’s Time to Imagine How China Would Act as Regional Hegemon Andrew Forrest, The Strategist
April 1, 2025 China Launches Military Drills Around Taiwan, Calls Taiwan President a ‘Parasite’ Reuters U.S. Slaps Sanctions on Top Chinese, Hong Kong Officials for Rights Abuses Al Jazeera Taiwan Reassured — and Surprised — by Pentagon Focus on Deterring China Lily Kuo and Pei-Lin Wu, The Washington Post Taiwan Dares to Hope Trump Will Back It Against Beijing Jonathan Cheng, Joyu Wang and Alexander Ward, The Wall Street Journal Second Chinese ‘Military Unification’ Influencer Leaves Taiwan James Thompson and Liu Chien-pang, CNA What We Know About Public Opinion in China, and Why It Matters for Policymakers Rory Truex, China Leadership Monitor
March 31, 2025 Hegseth Tells Asian Allies: We’re With You Against China Timothy W. Martin and Gabriele Steinhauser, The Wall Street Journal U.S. Military Strategy to Focus on Taiwan Chuang Wen-jen and Sam Garcia, Taipei Times China Is Courting, and Confronting, U.S. Allies Made Uneasy by Trump David Pierson, Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno, The New York Times Australia Nuclear Subs Could Sail Near Taiwan, Senkakus: Ex-Prime Minister Morrison Rachael Bayliss-Chan, Kyodo News Taiwan’s Biggest Limitation in Defense Isn’t Spending, It’s Late Deliveries From U.S. Defense Companies Kevin Ting-Chen Sun and Howard Shen, War on the Rocks China Unveils Planetary Exploration Roadmap Targeting Habitability and Extraterrestrial Life Andrew Jones, SpaceNews
March 28, 2025 China Pauses New Deals With Li Ka-shing Family After Panama Ports Plan Bloomberg South Korean Parties Unite in Rare Rebuke of China’s Maritime Expansion Yang Ji-hea, Kim Sang-yun, Park Soon-chan and Park Su-hyeon, The Chosun Daily Assassin’s Creed Creator Ubisoft Sets Up 4 Billion Euro Subsidiary, Backed by Tencent Reuters Taiwan Jails Four Soldiers, Including Three Who Worked in Presidential Office, for Spying for China Helen Davidson, The Guardian China ‘Unaware’ of Reports No. 3 Military Official Being Probed Bloomberg How Local Corruption Evolved in China Under Xi Jinping Zhuoran Li, The Diplomat Taiwan Navy Vessel Collides With Chinese Fishing Boat Sean Lin, CNA Tainan Simulates Emergency Response to Explosion in Civil Defense Drill Wu Shu-wei, Wen Kuei-hsiang and Teng Pei-ju, CNA Food Distribution for China Invasion Contingency 'Fully Planned': Minister Yang Shu-min and James Thompson, CNA Australian Foreign Minister Calls ‘Reprehensible’ Letter Targeting Hong Kong Activist in Australia a ‘Threat to National Sovereignty’ Henry Belot, The Guardian Why a Rising AI Star Left a Promising U.S. Academic Career to Return to China Ling Xin, South China Morning Post Chinese Students in Britain Could Be Forced to Reveal Communist Party Links Poppy Wood, The Telegraph Taiwan Premier Issues Warning After Mob Bosses Try to Hold Event at Legislature Lai Yu-chen, Lin Ching-yin and Matthew Mazzetta, CNA
March 27, 2025 China Swoops In to Replace Asian USAID Efforts Axed by Trump Iain Marlow and Philip Heijmans, Bloomberg China Gave a Three-Year Sentence to a Taiwan-Based Publisher on Charges of Inciting Separatism Fu Ting, Associated Press TikTok Billionaire Zhang Becomes China’s Richest Person Bloomberg Czech Government Blocks Chinese Investment Over Spy Fears Aneta Zachova, EURACTIV.cz Stairway to Taiwan: The Chinese Amphibious Bridging System Alex Luck, Naval News Awful but Lawful: China’s Australia Flotilla Thomas Shugart, The Interpreter Calls in China to Address Pension Inequality Grow Zichen Wang, Pekingnology
March 26, 2025 China Floods the World With AI Models After DeepSeek’s Success Saritha Rai and Yazhou Sun, Bloomberg Secretive Chinese Network Tries to Lure Fired Federal Workers, Research Shows A.J. Vicens, Reuters China Releases Employees of U.S. Firm as Xi Jinping Courts Global CEOs Joe Leahy and Edward White, Financial Times Yaya in Taiwan Voluntarily Flies to PRC Hollie Younger, Taipei Times Taiwan Coast Guard Refutes China Coast Guard ‘Law Enforcement’ Claims Wu Wen-jung and James Thompson, CNA Reading Between the Lines of Taiwan’s New Quadrennial Defense Review Kitsch Liao, New Atlanticist Japan Stands Up New Joint Operations Command Planned to Work With Local U.S. Forces Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News
March 25, 2025 Chinese Unificationist Has ‘No Plan to Leave’ Taiwan as Deportation Looms Liu Shih-yi, Liu Chien-pang, and James Thompson, CNA Anti-Torture Group Urges China to Release Citizen Journalist Zhang Zhan Mariana Nunez del Prado Cordova, JURIST Chinese State Broadcaster Airs First Visuals of Sixth-Generation Stealth Fighter Jet Shweta Sharma, Independent Chinese Activity Near Senkakus ‘Escalating’: Japan Top Diplomat Kyodo News Japan Protests China’s Description of Ishiba and Wang Meeting Sakura Murakami, Bloomberg China Discloses Powerful Deep-Sea Cable Cutter, SCMP Reports Bei Hu, Bloomberg China’s SiCarrier Emerges as Challenger to ASML, Other Chip Tool Titans Cheng Ting-fang and Lauly Li, Nikkei Asia China’s AI Content Dragnet Alex Colville, China Media Project Chinese Military Views of Low Earth Orbit Howard Wang, Jackson Smith and Cristina L. Garafola, RAND
March 24, 2025 China Is Ready to Blockade Taiwan. Here’s How Joyu Wang and Austin Ramzy, The Wall Street Journal Xi's Anti-Corruption Effort to Help China Invade Taiwan by 2027: U.S. Report Chung Yu-chen and Joseph Yeh, CNA Malaysia to Crack Down on Nvidia Chip Flows Under U.S. Pressure Owen Walker and Alec Russell, Financial Times China Funded Seminar for Filipino Social Media Influencers, Ex-Philippine Official Chief Admits ABS-CBN News Trump’s China Strategy Seeks ‘Containment With a Smile’ Brahma Chellaney, The Hill Chinese Communist Party Covert Operations Against Taiwan Peter Mattis and Cheryl Yu, Global Taiwan Institute Taiwan President’s Gambit: Time for a Tougher Stance on China Chris Buckley and Amy Chang Chien, The New York Times
March 21, 2025 Hong Kong Government Warn External Parties Against Intervening in Jimmy Lai Trial Jess Ma, South China Morning Post Four Canadians Executed in China, Canada Says Gareth Vipers, The Wall Street Journal China Top Priority in Trump NATSEC Strategy, Says Panel John Grady, USNI News Over 40 Taiwanese Under Investigation Over Chinese ID Documents James Thompson and Kao Hua-hsien, CNA Pentagon Set to Award U.S. Air Force's Next-Generation Fighter Jet Contract, Sources Say Mike Stone, Reuters Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China Eric Schmitt, Eric Lipton, Julian E. Barnes, Ryan Mac and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times Why DeepSeek Is So Dangerous Valentin Weber, Journal of Democracy
March 20, 2025 Trump Against Any Change of Taiwan’s Status Quo by Force: Rubio Chung Yu-chen and Frances Huang, CNA Pentagon Weighs Canceling U.S. Forces Japan Upgrade: Reports Ken Moriyasu, Nikkei Asia Five Charged in European Parliament Huawei Bribery Probe Reuters Chinese Space Project Under Review After Newsweek Investigation Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Newsweek Cheap Chinese Cars Are Taking Over Roads From Brazil to South Africa Chester Dawson, Rachel Gamarski, Mpho Hlakudi and Patpicha Tanakasempipat, Bloomberg China’s ‘United Front’ Tactics Infiltrate Police, Schools in Taiwan Jason Pan, Taipei Times Prosecutors Question Taiwanese Professor Over Alleged Fraud, China Links Yeh Chen, Wu Shu-wei and James Thompson, CNA