December 24, 2024 The Philippines to Acquire U.S. Typhon Missile System AFP China Says Philippine Plan to Deploy Midrange Missiles Would Be ‘Extremely Irresponsible’ Ken Moritsugu and Teresa Cerojano, Associated Press Ex-U.S. Fighter Pilot Accused of Training Chinese Military Will Be Extradited to the United States Hilary Whiteman, CNN China Takes Steps Against Canada Institutions, Individuals Over Uyghurs, Tibet Reuters The ‘Invisible Wall’ Amplifying China’s Population Doom Loop Liyan Qi, The Wall Street Journal A Billion Users, but Controversies Mount Up for China-Linked Tiktok AFP China Says Economists Who Spread ‘Inappropriate’ Views Should Be Fired Stella Yifan Xie, Nikkeo Asia
December 23, 2024 U.S. Report Says Hong Kong Becoming ‘Nearly Indistinguishable’ From Chinese Cities, as Beijing Condemns ‘Arrogance’ Hong Kong Free Press Taiwan a Major World Issue: Trump William Hetherington, Taipei Times Sweden Criticizes China for Refusing Full Access to Vessel Suspected of Baltic Sea Cable Sabotage Richard Milne, Financial Times British Government Rejects Calls to Classify China as Security Threat Charles Hymas, The Telegraph Vietnam Unveils New VCS-01 Mobile Coastal Defense System Gordon Arthur, Naval News Vietnam, India Close to Finalizing BrahMos Deal Sidhant Sibal, WION Seven Chinese Nationals Tried to Illegally Enter Guam as U.S. Tested Missile, Authorities Say Gerry Doyle, Reuters
December 20, 2024 China Expanding Pacific Operations, Taiwan Invasion ‘Not Possible’ by 2027, Say Department of Defense Officials John Grady, USNI News Senate Passes Defense Bill Authorizing Increased Taiwan Support Tsai Chia-min and Evelyn Kao, CNA Taiwan Government Budget Proposal for Indigenous Submarines Clears Committee Review Wu Su-wei and Sean Lin, CNA Taiwan’s China Airlines Splits $12-Billion Jet Deal Between Boeing and Airbus Ben Blanchard, Reuters Labour’s Review of U.K.-China Relations on Hold Until After Chancellor Visits Beijing Eleni Courea, Jessica Elgot and Amy Hawkins, The Guardian Prince Andrew Board Member Advised Chinese Communist Party George Greenwood and Mario Ledwith, The Times China’s ‘Problems With the West’ Could Only Be Resolved by Xi Jinping Stepping Down, Jimmy Lai Tells Security Law Trial Hans Tse, Hong Kong Free Press We Must Learn From China’s Hong Kong Betrayal Chris Patten, The Telegraph What the Pentagon’s New Report on Chinese Military Power Reveals About Capabilities, Context and Consequences Andrew Erickson, War on the Rocks China’s Top Political Advisor Meets With Harvard Professor Xinhua
December 19, 2024 Trump Should Be Active on U.N. Rights Body to Counter China, U.S. Envoy Says Emma Farge, Reuters China to Launch Rocket Friday; Will Fly Over Taiwan's ADIZ: Ministry of National Defense Matt Yu and Christie Chen, CNA Chinese Aggression Pushes Vietnam Ever Closer to Washington Charles Dunst, Nikkei Asia Man Who Ran Secret Police Office in New York Admits He Was Chinese Agent Hurubie Meko, The New York Times China’s Nuclear Buildup Is on Track Despite Graft Scandals, Pentagon Says Chris Buckley and John Ismay, The New York Times What Does the China ‘Spy’ Row Show? That Starmer Can’t Just Muddle Through on Foreign Policy Rafael Behr, The Guardian The Impact of Trump 2.0 on the Philippines Joseph Velasco, Think China
December 18, 2024 China Lengthens Visa-Free Stays for Tourists Sara Ruberg, The New York Times Explainer: China’s Newly Expanded Visa-Free Transit Yang Liu, Beijing Channel FBI Warns Some Lawmakers That China Aims to Create Fake Stories About Them to Erode Support for Taiwan Scott Wong and Ken Dilanian, NBC News A Look Inside Huawei’s Phone Shows How China’s Chip Advance Has Stalled Meaghan Tobin, The New York Times Taiwan in Talks With Amazon’s Kuiper on Satellite Communications Amid China Fears Kathrin Hille, Financial Times How China Is Adopting Battlefield Lessons From Ukraine Tye Graham and Peter W. Singer No Runways, No Sorties: Chinese Missiles Threaten U.S. Airpower Plans Kelly A. Grieco and Hunter Slingbaum, Defense News
December 17, 2024 U.K. ‘Concerned’ by China ‘Challenge’ Amid Espionage Allegations Surrounding Well-Connected Businessman Yang Tengbo AFP P.L.A. Releases Electronic Warfare ‘Kill List’ for U.S. Carrier Groups Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post Philippine Senate Ratifies Military Access Agreement With Japan Reuters Xi Brought Down Powerful Rivals in the Military. Now He’s Going After His Own Men Nectar Gan, CNN Starmer Defends China Policy Despite Concerns Over Challenge Posed by Beijing David Hughes, PA Media Abrams Tanks to Strengthen Taiwan’s Defense Against PLA Landings: Experts Wu Su-wei, Matt Yu and Joseph Yeh, CNA Trump Meets Tiktok CEO After Saying China, U.S. Can ‘Solve All World’s Problems’ Together Khushboo Razdan, South China Morning Post Breaking the Barrier: Four Years of P.R.C. Military Activity Around Taiwan Thomas J. Shattuck and Benjamin Lewis, Foreign Policy Research Instittue
December 16, 2024 First Batch of M1A2 Tanks Arrive in Taipei Wu Che-yu and William Hetherington, Taipei Times So What if the KMT Taiwanizes? Michael Turton, Taipei Times Why Starmer’s Great China Reset Risks Disaster for Britain Melissa Lawford, The Telegraph Is Trump’s Long Shadow a Chance for the Australia-China Relationship? Guangyi Pan, Peals and Irritations Trump and China: The Rocky Road Ahead Mel Gurtov, Asia-Pacific Journal Hardware and Hard Truths: Trump’s Tariffs Could Hurt American AI Alex Li, War on the Rocks China’s Amphibious Warfare: History, Doctrine, and Forces Andrew S. Erickson, The Diplomat Chinese Amphibious Warfare: Taiwan Targeted, Scenarios Swirling Andrew S. Erickson, The Diplomat
December 13, 2024 More Hongkongers Than Ever Perceived News Outlets to Be Self-Censoring, Survey Finds Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong Judge Convicts Former Pro-Democracy Lawmaker and Six Others Over 2019 Riots The Associated Press Taiwan Coast Guard Monitors Chinese Vessels After Drills Flor Wang and Wu Shu-wei, CNA Xi Jinping Calls for Wider Use of Mandarin in China’s Border Areas Taejun Kang, Radio Free Asia Philippines Considers New U.N. Case Against Beijing Over South China Sea Activity Kathrin Hille, Financial Times Chinese National Arrested After Allegedly Flying Drone Over U.S. Military Base AFP Chinese Provincial Security Teams Used Spyware to Collect Texts, Audio Recordings Jonathan Greig, The Record U.S. Air Force Runways In Asia Are Highly Vulnerable To Chinese Missile Strikes, Study Concludes Bill Gertz, The Washington Times China Moves to Trump-Proof Its Economy Jason Douglas, The Wall Street Journal
December 12, 2024 Taiwan Says ‘Troublemaker’ China Expands Military Drills Around Island Joy Chiang, AFP China’s Largest Maritime Deployment in Decades ‘Pressure Tests’ Taiwan Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia Taiwan’s Ex-President Ma Ying-jeou to Visit China for Second Time This Year Liu Kuan-ting, Chiu Kuo-chiang and Teng Pei-ju, CNA TikTok Seeks Judicial Review of Ottawa’s Shutdown Order Darryl Greer and Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press Was a Philippine Mayor a Secret Chinese Spy? Nick Aspinwall, Foreign Policy Archipelago of Resistance: The Philippines Is Rising to Meet the China Threat, But It Has a Crucial Year Ahead Haroro J. Ingram, War on the Rocks Under Pressure: Attitudes Towards China Among American Foreign Policy Professionals Michael B. Cerny and Rory Truex
December 11, 2024 Chinese Naval Deployments in Line With Other Large Drills, U.S. Official Says Reuters PLA’s Reserved Airspaces Aim to Play ‘Mind Games’ With Taiwan: Scholars Wu Su-wei, Wen Kuei-hsiang and Joseph Yeh, CNA China Naval Activity Around Taiwan Signals Attempt to Restrict Foreign Involvement: Official Sean Lin, CNA This Chinese Drone Company Found a Workaround to Congress’s Ban on Doing Business in the U.S. — Before the Ban Is Even Passed Andrew Kerr, Washington Free Beacon Breaking the Circle: Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Infrastructure Rapidly Expands Insikt Group China’s Space Moves: Highly Mobile Satellites Stalking Geo Spook Space Force Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense
December 10, 2024 Is It a Military Drill? China Deploys Ships and Planes Around Taiwan but Remains Mum The Associated Press China Sends Largest Naval Fleet in Decades to Region, Threat Level Severe, Taiwan Says Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard, Reuters China’s Critical Minerals Embargo Is Even Tougher Than Expected Keith Bradsher, The New York Times China Is Cutting Off Drone Supplies Critical to Ukraine War Effort Mark Bergen, Mackenzie Hawkins and Gian Volpicelli, Bloomberg Censors Remove Reflections on Democracy Inspired by Korean Crisis Alexander Boyd, China Digital Times First Salvo of a Russia-China Trade War Yong Jian, Asia Times The Fiction of Western Unity on China De-Risking James Crabtree, Foreign Policy
December 9, 2024 Taiwan Responds to Chinese Naval Activity With War-Readiness Drills Joseph Yeh Taiwan Reports 14 Chinese Warships and Four Balloons Near the Island The Associated Press Chinese Vessel Hits Philippines Fisheries Ship With Laser Six Times Frances Mangosing, Philippine Daily Inquirer On His Birthday, a Reminder of Why We Must Not Forget Jimmy Lai as He Continues to Suffer Inhuman Cruelty and Deprivation Behind Bars Benedict Rogers, The Tablet Taiwanese Influencers Warned Against Making Illegal Pro-CCP Content James Thompson, Lee Ya-wen, Wang Hsin-yu and Lai Yu-chen, CNA Chinese Companies Are Reportedly Reluctant to Adopt Homegrown Chips — Domestic Solutions Are Technologically Too Far Behind Anton Shilov, Tom’s Hardware The Shapeshifting Evolution of Chinese Technology Acquisition Matthew Brazil, The Jamestown Foundation