June 26, 2024 Edinburgh Halts Deal With Taiwanese City Over Fears Of China Backlash Simeon Kerr and James Kynge, Financial Times China’s New Zealand Embassy Hits Back at Foreign Interference Claims, Warns Journalists Not to Investigate Further Glenn McConnell, Stuff China’s Undersea Cable Drive Defies U.S. Sanctions Cheng Ting-fang, Lauly Li, Tsubasa Suruga and Shunsuke Tabeta, Nikkei Japan and South Korea Are Fighting Over an App at a Tense Time River Akira Davis, The New York Times Huawei’s Secret Ally in the U.S.-China Tech War: A Science Nonprofit Based in DC Kate O'Keeffe, Bloomberg U.S. and Philippines Seek to De-Escalate After Sea Skirmish With China Rebecca Tan and Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry to Dominate for the Next Decade: Analyst Alison Hsiao, CNA
June 25, 2024 Taiwan in Focus at the Shangri-La Dialogue Ying Yu Lin and Tzu-Hao Liao, The Jamestown Foundation U.S. Condemns China’s Latest Move Toward Taiwan as ‘Destabilizing’ Chung Yu-chen and James Lo, CNA The International Diplomatic War Over Taiwan’s Status Just Escalated Sharply Courtney Donovan Smith, Taipei Times China Conducts Landing Ship Drills as Tensions Rise in South China Sea The Maritime Executive U.S. Protested China’s Latest Clash With the Philippines in South China Sea, State Official Reveals Bill Gertz, The Washington Times Notes From Central Taiwan: Put Up or Shut Up Time? Michael Turton, Taipei Times China Changes Names of 630 Uyghur Villages in Xinjiang: Report Gulchehra Hoja, Radio Free Asia China's Growing Risk Tolerance in Space Howard Wang, Gregory Graff and Alexis Dale-Huang, Rand China’s New Info Warriors: The Information Support Force Emerges Joel Wuthnow, War on the Rocks
June 24, 2024 U.S. Reputation on the Line at Second Thomas Shoal Grant Newsham, Asia Times Ayungin and Why Philippine Should Respond as One Team, One Nation Rommel Jude G. Ong, Rappler Vatican Renews China Deal Despite Human Rights Concerns Philip Willan, The Times of London Taiwan’s Annual Han Kuang Kuang to Focus on 24/7 Drills, Decentralized Command, Rules of Engagement: Source Taipei Times Just Do It: Explaining the Characteristics and Rationale of Chinese Economic Sanctions Ketian Vivian Zhang, Texas National Security Review In Sub-Saharan Africa, China Embraces Russian Messaging Against Ukraine Digital Forensic Research Lab
June 21, 2024 ‘Only Pirates Do This’: Philippines Accuses China of Using Bladed Weapons in Major South China Sea Escalation Nectar Gan and Kathleen Magramo, CNN China Deploys Amphibious Warship Near the Philippines Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News Philippines Secretly Reinforces Ship at Center of South China Sea Dispute Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Launches the Philippine Navy Corvette ‘BRP Miguel Malvar’ Eunhyuk Cha, Naval News U.S. Needs to Invest in Cheaper Long-Range Drones for Taiwan Scenario, Report Says Valerie Insinna, Breaking Defense China Targets U.S. With Hacking Contests Hugh Cameron, Newsweek Future Scenarios for Sino-Russian Military Cooperation Mark Cozad, Cortez A. Cooper III, Alexis A. Blanc, David Woodworth, Anthony Atler, Kotryna Jukneviciute, Mark Hvizda and Sale Lilly, RAND Corporation How Demographics Impact Security in the Indo-Pacific Michael J. Green and Jude Blanchette, CSIS
Jun 20, 2024 Two Chinese Warships Spotted Near Balabac Island Town Celeste Anna Formoso, Palawan News Taiwan’s Air Force Conducts Large-Scale Joint Air Defense Drills Matt Yu and Sean Lin, CNA Quality Has a Quality All Its Own: The Virtual Attrition Value of Superior-Performance Weapons Evan Montgomery, Travis Sharp, And Tyler Hacker, War on the Rocks China Removing Religious and Cultural References From Xinjiang Place Names, Rights Groups Say ABC News Nasdaq Boosts Scrutiny of Investors in IPOs From China, Hong Kong Kiuyan Wong, Bloomberg Silicon Valley Steps Up Staff Screening Over Chinese Espionage Threat Tabby Kinder, Stephen Morris and Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times
June 19, 2024 17 People Jailed up to Five Years, 10 Months Over Attempted Escape From Besieged Hong Kong Campus During 2019 Protests Kelly Ho, Hong Kong Free Press China Coast Guard Impounds Philippine Navy Boats, Seizes Firearms in Latest Second Thomas Shoal Incident Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News Philippine Officials Say Chinese Forces Seized Two Navy Boats in Disputed Shoal, Injuring Sailors (Update) Jim Gomez, Associated Press Paper Tiger? Chinese Science and Home Bias in Citations Shumin Qiu, Claudia Steinwender and Pierre Azoulay, National Bureau of Economic Research U.S. Arms Sales to Boost Taiwan’s Asymmetric Warfare Capability: Experts Wu Shu-wei and Lee Hsin-Yin, CNA PLA Submarine Sighting ‘Understood,’ but Classified: Taiwan Defense Minister Lee Wen-hsi and Kayleigh Madjar, Taipei Times U.N. Human Rights Expert Extends Chinese Government’s Impunity Sophie Richardson, Just Security
June 18, 2024 China Coast Guard Seizes Philippine Guns in latest Ayungin Shoal Encounter Joseph Morong, GMA Integrated News Chinese Forces Foil Philippine Resupply Mission in Ayungin Shoal, Source Claims Celeste Anna Formoso, Palawan News Philippine Sailor Severely Injured, Vessels Damaged as Chinese Block South China Sea Mission Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News Chinese Submarine’s Torpedo Destroys Amphibious Landing Ship During Exercise Tyler Rogoway, The War Zone ‘Twin Track Diplomacy’: The Chinese Communist Party’s International Department Steps Up Activities in the Pacific Region Geoff Wade, Parliament of Australia China, South Korea Set for Their First Security Talks Since 2015 Soo-Hyang Choi, Bloomberg Amid Allegations, Ministry Warns Against Chinese Influence in Taiwan Political Parties Chen Chun-hua, Hsieh Yi-hsuan and Sunny Lai, CNA
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