May 9, 2025 Trump to Raise Hong Kong Jimmy Lai Case in China Trade Talks Straits Times Hong Kong Pro-China Informer: ‘Why I’ve Reported Dozens of People to Police’ Bridget Wing & Georgina Lam, BBC China Vows to Stand With Russia in Face of ‘Hegemonic Bullying,’ Xi Tells Putin AFP Xi’s Visit to Russia Complicates China’s Courtship of Europe David Pierson and Paul Sonne, The New York Times Could Taiwan Survive an EMP Attack by China? Tin Pak and Yu-cheng Chen, The Diplomat Outgoing Ambassador Positive on Taiwan-Vatican Ties Under New Pope Novia Huang and Kay Liu, CNA
May 8, 2025 Hong Kong Police Take in Relatives of Wanted Activist Joe Tay for Questioning Hillary Leung, Hong Kong Free Press Father of Wanted Hong Kong Activist Anna Kwok Denied Bail on National Security Grounds Kelly Ho, Hong Kong Free Press China Arrests Family of Dissident Who Protested Against Regime’s ‘Mega-Embassy’ in London The Telegraph Danish Politicians Call for Government Inquiry Into Transnational Repression Following China Targets Investigation Scilla Alecci, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Bad Vatican Deal With China May Sink a Papal Conclave Favorite Daniel Williams, Asia Times Who Is He Lifeng, the Chinese Trade Tsar Taking Center Stage in U.S. Tariff Talks? Laurie Chen and Michael Martina, Reuters How Tariffs Shrink Democratic Space Charles Santiago, Philippine Daily Inquirer Taiwan at Center of ‘One-Theater’ Defense Concept: Former Japanese General Wu Shu-wei and Joseph Yeh, CNA China’s PL-15 Air-to-Air Missile Appears to Have Been Used In Combat for the First Time Thomas Newdick, The War Zone Uncovering Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford Stanford Review
May 7, 2025 14 Percent of Taiwanese Say They Are Very Confident in the Military Shelley Shan, Taipei Times At Least 5,000 More Reservists to Participate in Taiwan Military Drills Wu Su-wei and Sean Lin, CNA Kapow! China Turns Its Back on Marvel Movies Richard Spencer, The Times Chinese Firm Behind NATO Ally’s Windfarm Is Tied to Army Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Newsweek How Images of the Dalai Lama’s Hands, Feet Landed a Tibetan Woman in China’s Dragnet Tripti Lahiri, Austin Ramzy and Krishna Pokharel, The Wall Street Journal The New Pope Must Stop Bending the Knee to Beijing Benedict Rogers, The Spectator The Real Space Race: China Will Send a Crew to Orbit Mars by 2050 China Aerospace Studies Institute Understanding China’s Calculated Influence Abroad Ratish Mehta, The Irrawaddy How Chinese AI Models Impact Labor Rights and Worker Visibility Kris Li, Harvard Kennedy School Washington May Regret Overextended AI Chip Controls Ray Wang, Foreign Policy
May 6, 2025 Trump Orders ‘100% Tariff’ on All Movies Produced Abroad After China’s Plan to Cut U.S. Film Imports AFP Beijing’s ‘Made in China’ Plan Is Narrowing Tech Gap, Study Finds Lingling Wei, The Wall Street Journal Britain Is ‘Compliant Servant of Communist China,’ Says Trump’s Tariff Chief Rob Crilly, The Telegraph U.S. House Passes Bills on Taiwan Engagement, International Participation Chung Yu-chen and Matthew Mazzetta, CNA Huawei, Hikvision, Dahua Face Lawsuit for Role in Uyghur Biometric Surveillance Ayang Macdonald, BiometricUpdate Deep Rivalry or Elite Obsession? Washington’s Search for Dominance Over China Sam Roggeveen, War on the Rocks
May 5, 2025 Hong Kong: Targeting of Exiled Activists’ Families Escalates Human Rights Watch Satellite Images Reveal Huawei’s Advanced Chip Production Line in China Eleanor Olcott, Zijing Wu and Chris Cook, Financial Times How Bad Is China’s Economy? The Data Needed to Answer Is Vanishing Rebecca Feng and Jason Douglas, The Wall Street Journal Chinese Exporters ‘Wash’ Products in Third Countries to Avoid Donald Trump’s Tariffs William Langley, Rafe Uddin and Song Jung-a, Financial Times China’s Counter-UAV Efforts Reveal More Than Technological Advancement Tye Graham and Peter W. Singer, Defense One The Terrible Secrets of Taiwan’s Stasi Files Alice Su, The Economist
May 2, 2025 Taiwan to Mark World War II End in History Narrative Battle With China Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee, Reuters A Superpower Crunch Over Taiwan Is Coming The Economist Papal Inauguration Risks Raising Tensions Between China and Taiwan Helen Davidson, The Guardian China ‘Elects’ Two Bishops After Pope’s Death Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency Uyghur Activists Condemn Harvard Over Training for Sanctioned China Group Shahrezad Ghayrat, Radio Free Asia Beijing Wooed Belgian Socialist to Spy on China-Hawkish MP: Reports Antoaneta Roussi, Politico Report to Congress on Chinese Naval Modernization USNI News
May 1, 2025 U.S. Army Plans Massive Increase in Its Use of Drones Michael R. Gordon, The Wall Street Journal China Is Developing an ‘Underwater Beidou’ Network for Navigation and Tracking Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post Trump Effect: Ex-Japan Minister Calls for Regional Security Alliance Joseph Yeh, CNA Most Chinese Oppose Force to Unify Taiwan: Survey Taipei Times Hong Kong Man, 22, Arrested Under New Security Law for Allegedly Publishing ‘Seditious’ Online Posts Irene Chan, Hong Kong Free Press War Without Surprises: Education for Command in the PLA Navy Ryan D. Martinson, CIMSEC
April 30, 2025 China Deploys Army of Fake NGOs at U.N. to Intimidate, Silence Critics: Media Investigation Nina Larson, AFP Chinese Drones, Surveillance Aircraft Step Up Patrols Near Taiwan, Philippine Sea Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News Facing CCP Threat, Rival Camps Find Common Ground on a Taiwan-centered Identity Wei-Ting Yen and Lev Nachman, The Diplomat Taiwan's Indigenous Defense Submarine Faces Sea Trial Testing Delay Sean Lin, CNA Chinese Military Drill Escalates Tensions, Underscoring Taiwan’s Commitment to Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience Kuang-Cheng Hsu and Calvin Chu, The Jamestown Foundation Ukraine’s Air Force Has Survived. Taiwan’s Almost Certainly Couldn’t David Axe, The Strategist Views From Taipei: Essays by Young Indian Scholars on China Vijay Gokhale, Suyash Desai, Amit Kumar and Aadil Brar, Carnegie India
April 29, 2025 China’s Huawei Develops New AI Chip, Seeking to Match Nvidia Liza Lin and Raffaele Huang, The Wall Street Journal Reconciliation Bill Calls for 16 New Battle Force Ships, $4.9 Billion in Unmanned Vessels Sam LaGrone, USNI News New Philippines Strategic Defense Command to Oversee Joint Exercises With Allies Frances Mangosing, Philippine Daily Inquirer Online Campaign Urged Far Right to Attack China’s Opponents in U.K. Tom Burgis and Maeve McClenaghan, The Guardian Chinese Authorities Exploited Interpol and Strong-Armed One of the World’s Richest Men to Pursue a Target International Consortium of Investigative Journalists China Could Soon Gain the Lead in Submarine Technology H I Sutton, The Broadside Implications of PLA Soldiers Fighting for Russia in Ukraine Guermantes Lailari, Taipei Times Taiwan Focuses on Societal Resilience and U.S. Cooperation in New Defense Review Kitsch (Yen-fan) Liao, The Jamestown Foundation
April 28, 2025 Philippine Forces Land on Contested South China Sea Feature Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News China Seizes Disputed Reef in the South China Sea Kathrin Hille and Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council to Probe ‘United Front’ Writing Contest Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times With a Bounty on His Head, a Critic of China Runs in Canada’s Election Norimitsu Onishi, The New York Times The Trump Effect on Public Attitudes Toward America in Taiwan and South Korea Lev Nachman, Hannah June Kim and Wei-Ting Yen, Brookings Waging War Without Disruption: China’s People’s Armed Police in a Future Conflict Jake Rinaldi, Strategic Studies Institute
April 25, 2025 China Tells U.S. to ‘Cancel All Unilateral Tariffs’ If It Wants Talks Joe Leahy and Wenjie Ding and Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times China Bets Trump Will Back Down on Tariffs Brian Spegele and Jason Douglas, The Wall Street Journal Xi Is Ratcheting Up China’s Pain Threshold for a Long Fight With Trump Josh Chin, The Wall Street Journal Would Europe Pivot to China in Trump’s Tariff War? Jonathan Eyal and Aw Cheng Wei, The Straits Times U.S. Blasts China for Misusing U.N. Resolution at Security Council Meet Joseph Yeh, CNA U.S. Soldier Jailed for Selling Defense Secrets to China AFP Taiwan Warned by U.S. Experts of CCP’s Expanding Infiltration Hollie Younger, Taipei Times U.S. Considering Giving Drones to Taiwanese Navy: Source Lo Tien-pin and Jake Chung, Taipei Times Court Lets Cardinal Zen Leave Hong Kong for Pope’s Funeral After Passport Earlier Confiscated Over Security Law Arrest James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press
April 24, 2025 China Is Militarizing Its Coast Guard Against Taiwan. Here’s How Taipei and Its Allies Can Respond Kitsch Liao, Atlantic Council Australia Says Chinese Fighter Jet Released Flares That Almost Hit Spy Plane Over South China Sea CBS News China Targets Gangs, Temples to Infiltrate Taiwan: Taiwan National Security Bureau Wu Shu-wei and Evelyn Kao, CNA Chinese Carrier Shandong Deploys Nears the Philippines Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News Taiwanese Air Force to Form Fourth Patriot Defense Battalion Aaron Tu, Chen Chih-cheng and Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times Indigenous Submarine Sea Acceptance Tests not Yet Scheduled, Taiwan Defense Minister Says Lery Hiciano, Taipei Times No Alternative but to Disband Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, Leader Says James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press The Real Threat Behind Trump’s Trade War: China’s Currency Offensive Li Qiang, The Diplomat This Is How Washington Loses the Pacific Islands Camilla Pohle, The Diplomat