June 17, 2024 Pentagon Ran Secret Anti-Vax Campaign to Undermine China During Pandemic Chris Bing and Joel Schectman, Reuters Xi Jinping Claimed U.S. Wants China to Attack Taiwan Demetri Sevastopulo and Joe Leahy, Financial Times NATO in Talks to Put Nuclear Weapons on Standby Joe Barnes, The Telegraph Chinese Firm Sought to Use U.K. University Links to Access AI for Possible Military Use Hannah Devlin, The Guardian Taiwan’s Worrying Rise in Military Suicides Joseph Yeh, CNA ‘I’ve Agonized Over This’: Suspected Foreign Interference Victims Break Silence Matthew Knott, The Sydney Morning Herald Australia’s Strange PRC Debate Michael Turton, Taipei Times Charles Lieber Plans Talks With the University of Hong Kong Bethany Halford, Chemical & Engineering News
June 14, 2024 Estimating China’s Defense Spending: How to Get It Wrong (and Right) M. Taylor Fravel, George J. Gilboy, Eric Heginbotham, Texas National Security Review China’s Maritime Militia: The Shadowy Armada Whose Existence Beijing Rarely Acknowledges Helen Davidson, The Guardian Are We Sure China Views Sea Power The Same Way The West Does? Douglas Robb and Andrew Ward, Defense News Beijing Paying Taiwanese YouTubers to Promote China to Promote China to Young Taiwanese Chung Li-hua and Jason Pan, Taipei Times HIMARS, Javelin Deliveries to Taiwan Expected Ahead of Schedule Lo Tien-pin, Aaron Tu and Esme Yeh, Taipei Times A Chinese Military Buff Inadvertently Bought Four Books of Military Secrets for Under $1 Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press Google AI Gemini Parrots China’s Propaganda Voice of America Patriotism Over Profit: The U.S. Can’t Allow Big Tech to Sell Out to China Geoffrey Cain, The Hill
June 13, 2024 A First: China Navy Holds Drills Within Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone: Armed Forces of the Philippines Nestor Corrales, Philippine Daily Inquirer Philippines to Restore Subic Bay Airfield for South China Sea Ops Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, Naval News Taiwan Coast Guard Vessel Anchored in Honolulu for International Operation Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times Man Acted Alone When Entering Taiwan on Motorboat, Will Be Punished Upon His Return to China: Beijing Taipei Times Hong Kong Invokes a New Law to Cancel Passports of Six Overseas-Based Activists, Including Nathan Law Kanis Leung, Associated Press U.K. Judge Says He Did Not Quit Top Hong Kong Court Sooner as He ‘Wanted to See How Things Will Develop’ Post-Security Law Tom Grundy, Hong Kong Free Press U.S. Falls Further Behind in AI Race, Could Make Conflict With China ‘Unwinnable’: Report Carley Welch, Breaking Defense
June 12, 2024 How the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre Shaped China’s Approach to International Human Rights Geoffrey Roberts, China Change EU to Impose Multibillion-Euro Tariffs on Chinese Electric Cars Andy Bounds, Financial Times UAE Minister Says U.S. Concerns Over Chip Supplies to China Valid Joumanna Bercetche and Abeer Abu Omar, Bloomberg Hong Kong Prosecutors Close Case Against Jimmy Lai, Defense to Argue In July Insufficient Evidence to Proceed Kelly Ho, Hong Kong Free Press Stronger Response Urged From U.S. to China’s Growing Coercion Near Taiwan Flor Wang and Shih Hsiu-chaun, CNA Denial Is the Worst Except for All the Others: Getting the U.S. Theory of Victory Right for a War With China Jacob Heim, Zachary Burdette and Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, War on the Rocks Scripted Order: Combined-Military Exercises in the Asia-Pacific Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2024
June 11, 2024 Hong Kong Rule of Law in ‘Grave Danger,’ Quitting Judge Says Jacob Gu and Alan Wong, Bloomberg ‘Make Their Lives Utterly Miserable’: Top U.S. Commander Outlines ‘Hellscape’ Response if China Invades Taiwan Jake Smith, Daily Caller U.S. Carriers Reagan and Roosevelt Join Pacific Valiant Shield 2024 Drills Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News U.S.-Taiwan Defense Research Exchanges Boosted Yang Yao-ju and William Hetherington, Taipei Times Refresher Shooting Program for Taiwanese Reservists Expanded Matt Yu, Wu Shu-wei and Joseph Yeh, CNA In China, Regional Security Officials Have Been Told to Make Regime Stability a Priority William Zheng, South China Morning Post Amsterdam Replacing Chinese CCTV & Traffic Cameras Over Spying, Human Rights Concerns NL Times CMSI Translations #4: Charging Into Battle — A Deeply Entwined Network: A Profile of Wang Chengfei, Director of a Research Office at the Naval Research Academy China Maritime Studies Institute Translations
June 10, 2024 House Bill Funds New Tranche of Philippines, Taiwan Military Aid Cristina Stassis, Defense News Notes From Central Taiwan: The Once and Future King of Hualien Michael Turton, Taipei Times Election Interference and Information Manipulation Mareike Ohlberg, German Marshall Fund Chinese Firm Hikvision Doubles CCTV Sales in Britain John-Paul Ford Rojas, This Is Money Chinese Industry to Seek Probe Into EU Dairy Imports, Global Times Reports Reuters Vietnam Minds Its Own Affairs, Not Harassing Filipino Fishers: Philippine Coast Guard Official Faith Argosino, Philippine Daily Inquirer Iroquois Reef: Theft by Soft Occupation Ray Powell, SeaLight
June 7, 2024 U.S. Navy Conducts ‘Unplanned’ Exercises With Taiwan in the West Pacific Carter Johnston, Naval News Taiwan Can Exercise Self-Defense if Chinese Aircraft Enter Within 12 Nautical Miles of Territorial Airspace and Water: Defense Minister Shelly Shan, Taipei Times Philippines Bats for ASEAN Coast Guard Protocol Amid South China Sea Woes John Eric Mendoza, Philippine Daily Inquirer Optica Cuts Ties With Huawei After Secret Funding Exposed Kate O'Keeffe, Bloomberg Former Top U.K. Judges Resign From Hong Kong Court Amid China Crackdown Suzi Ring and Chan Ho-him, Financial Times Hong Kong Arrests Three for ‘Insulting’ Anthem at World Cup Qualifier AFP Turkey Quietly Lobbied for Uyghur Rights During High-Level Visit to China Ragip Soylu, Middle East Eye
June 6, 2024 China Sends Most Advanced Fighter Jets to Contested Border — Satellite Images Aadil Brar, Newsweek U.S. and Allies Say China Is ‘Aggressively Recruiting’ Their Fighter Pilots Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times Chinese Hacking Groups Stole ‘Sensitive’ Intel on South China Sea From Southeast Asian Government Jonathan Greig, The Record Embattled Philippine Mayor Accused of Being a Chinese Spy Suspended Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network U.S. Announces Sales of F-16 Parts to Taiwan Shih Hsiu-chuan and Christie Chen, CNA A Chinese Economic Blockade of Taiwan Would Fail or Launch a War Dmitri Alperovitch, War on the Rocks Q&A: Xiao Qiang on the Anniversary of Tiananmen Square and the Right to Information in China Kevin Lind, Columbia Journalism Review
June 5, 2024 China Wants You to Forget Tiananmen Ever Happened Karishma Vaswani, Bloomberg In Pictures: Tiananmen Crackdown Commemorations Foiled by Large Hong Kong Police Deployment Tom Grundy, Mercedes Hutton, Kelly Ho, Irene Chan, Hans Tse and James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press Around 2,000 Attend Taipei Vigil to Remember Tiananmen Square Massacre Sunny Lai, CNA Philippine Marines Drew Firearms as China Seized Second Thomas Shoal Airdrop, Says Philippine Military Chief Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News U.S. Philippines Expand Exercise to Territorial Edges Amid Tension With China Jen Judson, Defense News The Concept Driving the Army’s Air Assault Plans for the Indo-Pacific Rebecca Grant, Breaking Defense
June 4, 2024 Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council Urges China to Face History on Eve of June 4 Incident Anniversary Hsieh Yi-hsuan and Frances Huang, CNA 35 Years Ago, the Tiananmen Massacre: How It Prepared Xi Jinping’s China Marco Respinti, Bitter Winter U.S., Japan and Korea Commit to New Multi-Domain ‘Freedom Edge’ Exercise Series Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News Facing Up to China’s Hybrid Warfare in the Pacific Anne-Marie Brady, The Diplomat China’s Space Capability and What This Means for the West David Chen, China Aerospace Studies Institute A Pacific Island With Ties to Taiwan Was Hacked. Was It Political? Jacob Judah, The New York Times
June 3, 2024 Chinese Defense Head Warns of ‘Self-Destruction’ for Taiwan Supporters Noah Robertson, Defense News In Surprise Singapore Visit, Zelenskyy Accuses China of Disrupting Peace Talks, Asks for Asian Support Colin Clark And Lee Ferran, Breaking Defense China Accuses U.S. of Seeking ‘Asia-Pacific NATO’ Demetri Sevastopulo(opens a new window) and Kathrin Hille, Financial Times China Coast Guard Seizes Philippines Supplies for Ayungin Frances Mangosing, Philippines Daily Inquirer Aggressive Legislative ‘Reform’ Risks Hongkongizing Taiwan Michael Turton, Taipei Times Taiwan to Form Defense Innovation Unit: New Defense Chief Matt Yu and Joseph Yeh, CNA Taiwan Accuses Chinese Apple Supplier of Trying to Illegally Poach Tech Talent Reuters
May 31, 2024 What Does America Want From China? Rush Doshi; Jessica Chen Weiss and James B. Steinberg; Paul Heer; Matt Pottinger and Mike Gallagher, Foreign Affairs China’s Twilight Years Howard W. French, The Atlantic Xi Jinping Has Changed China’s Winning Formula Gideon Rachman, Financial Times China’s Greatest Fear: Dead and Buried Like the Soviet Union Harry J. Kazianis, The National Interest Behind the Scenes of the Pentagon’s Race to Aid in Taiwan’s Defense Noah Robertson, Defense News ASEAN Chief Says South China Sea Code to Be Concluded by 2025 Ismi Damayanti, Nikkei U.S. Is Slowing AI Chip Exports to Middle East by Nvidia, AMD Mackenzie Hawkins and Ian King, Bloomberg