April 15, 2024 China Coastguard Blocks Philippines Vessels as Maritime Tension Grows Kathrin Hille and Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times Taiwan’s Military to Set Up New Combatant Command in 2026: Source Matt Yu and Joseph Yeh, CNA Solomon Islands Readies for Election in Shadow of China’s Influence The Japan Times China to Ban U.S. Chips From Its Telco Networks From 2027 Chris Szewczyk, PC Gamer Notes From Central Taiwan: Independence in Rhetoric and Reality Michael Turton, Taipei Times China, Russia and Iran Are Reviving the Age of Empires Hal Brands, Bloomberg India Can Replace China as Major Semiconductor Manufacturer, Says Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu WION How Would China Weaponize Disinformation Against Taiwan in a Cross-Strait Conflict? Scott W. Harold, The Diplomat
April 12, 2024 U.S. Airlines, Unions Urge Biden Administration Not to Approve More China Flights David Shepardson, Reuters Huawei Building Vast Chip Equipment R&D Center in Shanghai Cheng Ting-fang, Nikkei China Behind Flood of Fake Stamps Plaguing Britain Pieter Snepvangers, The Telegraph Driven by China, Coal Plants Made a Comeback in 2023 Max Bearak, The New York Times Aussie Prime Minister Must Improve AUKUS Explanation for Public, Reassess U.S. Relations, Experts Warn Bryant Harris, Breaking Defense Mixed Responses in Taiwan to Ma-Xi Meet in Beijing Sunny Lai, CNA Hong Kong: RSF Representative Detained and Deported on Attempt to Monitor Jimmy Lai’s National Security Trial Reporters Without Borders CMSI Note #5: Admiral Wang Renhua: Exemplifying Jointness and Oversight for China’s Navy amid Xi’s Grade-and-Rank Reforms Andrew S. Erickson, U.S. Naval War College Are China’s VCs All In on Hard Tech? AJ Cortese, Marco Polo Notes From Central Taiwan: Taiwan’s Construction-Industrial Money Pit Michael Turton, Taipei Times
April 11, 2024 Calm Before the Storm? China’s Shifting Intimidation Tactics on Taiwan Brent Sadler and Caleb Erickson, The Daily Signal Ma, Xi Say Both Sides of Taiwan Strait Are Chinese Chen Yu-fu and Jake Chung, Taipei Times Taiwan President-Elect Lai Appoints Ex-DPP Chair Cho Jung-tai as Premier Teng Pei-ju and Joseph Yeh, CNA China’s High-Stakes Struggle to Defy Demographic Disaster The Economist China Anti-Graft Agencies Investigate Top Defense Group Executive Joe Leahy, Financial Times Laying the Groundwork for U.S.-China AI Dialogue Ryan Hass and Colin Kahl, Brookings Two-Theater Tragedy: A Reluctant Europe Cannot Easily Escape a Sino-American War Over Taiwan Tim Sweijs and Paul Van Hooft, War on the Rocks
April 10, 2024 China’s Xi Hosts Former Taiwan President in Beijing, in Rare Meeting Echoing Bygone Era of Warmer Ties Nectar Gan and Wayne Chang, CNN EU Pushes to Curb China’s Green Tech Market Lead Stuart Lau, Politico AUKUS Partners Working Through Reality of Submarine Pact, Officials Say John Grady, USNI News KMT Vows Transparency in Party Visits to China Shih Hsiao-kuang and Chen Yun and Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times The U.S. Army Will Hold Combat Training in the Philippines to Hone Skills as Maritime Tensions Rise Jim Gomez, Associated Press Distracted Quad Leaders Must Refocus on Bullies in Beijing Shingo Yamagami, The Australian U.K. Parliament Declares Genocide In China’s Xinjiang; Beijing Condemns Move Reuters The Communist Party’s Steering of China’s Science, Technology, and Innovation System: Aspirations and Reality Anna L. Ahlers, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation China Bets Big on Military AI Sam Bresnick, Center for European Policy Analysis
April 9, 2024 TSMC Is Chasing a Trillion-Transistor AI Bonanza Scott Foster, Asia Times The U.S. Seeks Not Just to Block China’s Access to Advanced Chip Making Tech, It Wants to Ban Servicing on the Equipment It Already Has Chris Szewczyk, PC Gamer Quad Mire: ALP Warned on China by Former Japanese Envoy Ben Packham, The Australian Australia Prime Minister Says No Japan as AUKUS Member, But Pillar II on Table Aaron Mehta, Breaking Defense China Finds ‘Useful Idiot’ With Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou Visit, Ex-General Says Yang Yao-ju and Kayleigh Madjar, Taipei Times Taiwan Intent on Beefing Up ‘Interoperability’ With U.S.: Navy Chief Shih Hsiu-chuan, Chung Yu-chen and Joseph Yeh, CNA USS America Wraps Drills With JMSDF, Russia Flies Bombers Near Japan Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News Understanding Muslim Countries’ Support for China’s Actions in Xinjiang: A Qualitative-Comparative Analysis Bruno Hendler and Gabriela Tamiris Rosa Correa, Research Gate Uyghurs Remember 1990 Baren Uprising Over China’s Forced Abortions Shahrezad Ghayrat, Radio Free Asia The China Nexus: Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party’s Tyranny Rana Siu Inboden, Providence
April 8, 2024 TSMC’s CHIPS Act Grant: Has Arizona Reached a Tipping Point? Willy Shih, Forbes Taiwan-Built UAV Makes Second Attempt to Pass Combat Readiness Tests Matt Yu and Joseph Yeh, CNA Taiwan Military’s New Rifle Has Started Mass Production Wu Che-yu and Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times China Conducts ‘Combat Patrols’ as U.S. Holds Drills With Allies in Disputed Waters AFP AUKUS Weighs Expanding Security Pact to Deter China in Indo-Pacific Demetri Sevastopulo and Kana Inagaki, Financial Times Japan Prime Minister’s Washington Trip: Bilateral Focus but ‘Groundbreaking’ Trilateral Goals Colin Clark, Breaking Defense China Providing Geospatial Intelligence to Russia, U.S. Warns Alberto Nardelli and Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg Czechia Probing Alleged Chinese Diplomat Tailing of Taiwan Vice President-Elect: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Joseph Yeh, CNA Belt & Road: Chinese Techno-Nationalism in Maldives Joshua Bowes, Asia Times U.S. Set to Expand Naval Base in Papua New Guinea Zach Abdi, USNI News
April 5, 2024 Timeline of Chinese Harassment of Second Thomas Shoal Resupply Missions Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News U.S. Criminal Case Against China’s Huawei Heads Toward 2026 Trial Reuters Argentina’s Government Considers Inspection of Chinese Space Station on Neuquen Buenos Aires Times Targeting Chinese Chips, U.S. to Push Dutch on ASML Service Contracts Reuters U.S. to Deploy Medium-Range Missile System in Asia-Pacific Taketsugu Sato, The Asahi Shimbun Pacific Problems: Why the U.S. Disagrees on the Cost of Deterring China Noah Robertson, Defense News Senior U.S. Official Hints U.S. and Japan ‘Coproduction’ of ‘Vital’ Military Tech on the Horizon Tim Martin, Breaking Defense Major Connectivity Loss for the Port of Hong Kong Sea-Intelligence
April 4, 2024 Will China Truly Be ‘Ready’ to Invade Taiwan by 2027? It’s Complicated Gabriel Dominguez, Japan Times Japan, U.S., Australia, Philippines to Hold Drill in South China Sea Kyodo News Tokyo in Talks With Manila Over Sending Troops to the Philippines Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times U.S. Seeks to ‘Integrate’ Japan Into Defense Industrial Base Ken Moriyasu, Nikkei Asia Japan Stands Up Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, Electronic Warfare Unit for Defense of Southwest Islands Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News China’s Governance Workshops Seek to Promote China’s Brand in the Middle East Niva Yau, Fikra Forum The Rise and Fall of LGFVs: Part 1: How China’s Local Government Financing Vehicles Became China’s Most Complex Economic Challenge Jonathon P. Sine, Substack Philippine Village Residents Want Chinese Presence Probed Manolo del Rio, Manila Standard INDOPACOM Boss: China ‘Soon to Be World’s Largest Air Force’ Unshin Lee Harpley, Air & Space Forces Magazine Virginia Class Budget Cut Was a ‘Real Decision,’ Not a Political Ploy: Navy Comptroller Justin Katz, Breaking Defense Battling Taiwan’s Fake News Onslaught Huizhong Wu, Associated Press Notes from Central Taiwan: Ginger as Taiwan Michael Turton, Taipei Times
April 3, 2024 Taiwan Earthquake Live Updates: Evacuations and Tsunami Warning in Japan; Buildings Collapsed in Taiwan Reged Ahmad, The Guardian Joe Biden Breaks Phone Silence With China After Nearly Two Years Natalie Venegas, Newsweek Former President Ma Ying-jeou Calls for Cross-strait Cooperation on Visit to Sun Yat-sen Residence Wang Cheng-chung, Lu Chia-jung and Matthew Mazzetta, CNA Chinese Warships, Russian Intelligence Ships Sailing Near Japanese Waters Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News Russian Threat Perception and Nuclear Strategy in Its Plans for War With China John Stanko and Spenser Warren, War on the Rocks The Philippines Chooses Non-Violent Direct Action Ray Powell, SeaLight U.S. Navy Lays Out Major Shipbuilding Delays, in Rare Public Accounting Justin Katz, Breaking Defense Chang Guang Satellite Technology Company Overview China Aerospace Studies Institute
April 2, 2024 The State of Southeast Asia: 2024 Survey Report ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute The Real Roots of Xi Jinping Thought Rana Mitter, Foreign Affairs Former Taiwan President Ma Leaves for China, Likely to Meet Xi Reuters It Only Takes a $7,000 Debt to End Up Trapped in China Rebecca Feng and Elaine Yu, The Wall Street Journal Chinese Warships Spotted Again at Cambodia Naval Base Yuji Nitta, Nikkei U.S. Navy Submarine First In World Fitted With Silent Caterpillar Drive Naval News
April 1, 2024 How Xi Jinping Plans to Overtake America The Economist T-motor: The Chinese Drone Maker Making a Killing on Global Conflict Samuel Howarth, Digitimes China Celebrates 65th Anniversary of Its Trashing of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ Policy for Tibet Tibetan Review China Scraps Tariffs on Australian Wine as Relations Improve Keira Wright and Ben Westcott, Bloomberg Chinese Carrier Aviation in 2024 — The Year So Far Alex Luck, Naval News U.S. Imposes Visa Restrictions on Hong Kong Officials in Response to Passing of Tough Security Law Reuters Tests Done, Taiwan’s Latest-Generation Armored Vehicle Ready for Production Matt Yu and Joseph Yeh, CNA Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party Proposes Harsher Treason Sentences Chen Cheng-yu and William Hetherington, Taipei Times U.S.-Funded Radio Free Asia Shuts Down in Hong Kong Over Safety Concerns The Guardian
March 29, 2024 Congress Funds Taiwan Military Support as Foreign Aid Bill Stalls Bryant Harris, Defense News Australia’s Shadow Defense Minister Against Japan, New Zealand Joining AUKUS Colin Clark, Breaking Defense Taiwan’s Top Diplomat Says U.S. Aid to Ukraine Is Critical for Deterring China Edward Wong, The New York Times China’s Wuxi AppTec Shared U.S. Client’s Data With Beijing, U.S. Intelligence Officials Told Senators Michael Martina, Michael Erman and Karen Freifeld, Reuters Can the U.K. Actually Stop Chinese Cyber Interference? Sorcha Bradley, The Week Three Key Points for Understanding China’s Foreign Policy Mu Chunshan, The Diplomat