May 29, 2024 Rights Activist Chow Hang-tung Among Six Arrested Over Alleged Sedition Under Hong Kong’s New Security Law Kelly Ho, Hong Kong Free Press U.N. Body Rejects Debate on China’s Treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Blow to West Emma Farge, Reuters Taiwan Armed Forces at 80% Strength, Report Says Aaron Tu and Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times Raymond Greene Named as New De Facto U.S. Ambassador to Taiwan Shih Hsiu-chuan, Chung Yu-chen and Joseph Yeh, CNA China Launches 10th Type 055 Vessel, Increases Production at Dagushan Alex Luck, Naval News Chinese Firm Files Plans for 10,000-Satellite Constellation Andrew Jones, SpaceNews Space-Capable Link 16 Will Be ‘Game Changer’ in Indo-Pacific Conflict With China: General Colin Clark, Defense News University of Florida Employee, Students Implicated in Illegal Plot to Ship Drugs, Toxins to China Matthew Cupelli, Fresh Take Florida All That’s Left: A Self-Defeating Semiconductor Export Tactic for China Andre Brunel, Defense News
May 28, 2024 The Imaginary Tsai-Lai Discontinuity Michael Turton, Taipei Times Taiwan Faces Moment of Truth Over Opposition’s Legislative Threat to Lai Thompson Chau, Nikkei China Premier Agrees on Cooperation With Seoul, Tokyo But Issues Veiled Rebuke Against Their Us Ties Hyung-jin Kim and Huizhong Wu, Associated Press Chinese Money Tops Human Rights, Apparently The Wall Street Journal China Commissions First Integrated Geological Survey Vessel in Hainan ECNS Wire Britain’s Strange Defeat: The 1941 Fall of Crete and Its Lessons for Taiwan Iskander Rehman, War on the Rocks Losing Hearts and Minds: The Desperate State of U.S. Influence Operations Patrick Tucker, Defense One Senators Quiz Navy Leaders on Proposed Sea-Launched Nuclear Cruise Missile John Grady, USNI News
May 27, 2024 Taiwan on the Faultline Kathrin Hille, Financial Times How China Pulled So Far Ahead on Industrial Policy Patricia Cohen, Keith Bradsher and Jim Tankersley, The New York Times China’s Large Military Drills Around Taiwan Could Become Regular: Experts Chung Yu-chen and Frances Huang, CNA Taiwan Navy Relaunches Guided Missile Frigate Project Lo Tien-pin and William Hetherington, Taipei Times Taiwan’s New Submarine Ready for Sea Trials Following Delayed Optronic Mast Delivery Tso-Juei Hsu, Naval News Politicians Lament Taiwan Stars’ Pro-China Statements Hsu Li-chuan, Chen Cheng-yu and Jake Chung, Taipei Times Decoding China: Who Will Shape the Internet of the Future? Rodion Ebbighausen, Deutsche Welle
May 24, 2024 When Will Washington Get Serious About Taiwan? Raymond Kuo, Michael Hunzeker and Mark Christopher, Foreign Policy INDOPACOM Deputy Calls China ‘Equal Opportunity Bullies’ as PRC Practices Taiwan Blockade Colin Clark, Breaking Defense Taiwanese Perceptions of Conflict: Continuity in the Face of Change Lev Nachman, Shelley Rigger and Nathan Kar Ming Chan, Brookings The Cause for China’s Coercion in the Skies May Lay Under the Water Justin Burke, The Interpreter Inside Operation Diplomatic Specter: Chinese APT Group’s Stealthy Tactics Exposed The Hacker News Chinese Hackers Hide on Military and Government Networks for Six Years Bill Toulas, Bleeping Computer When Bill Clinton Lost China Chris Smith, Wall Street Journal China Is Burning All Its Bridges With Israel Derek Grossman, Nikkei Five Essential Books on Maritime Strategy You Need to Read James Holmes, National Interest
May 23, 2024 ‘Not Stressed’: Taiwanese Shrug Off China’s Military Drills, Launched Days After Lai Ching-te Becomes Taiwan’s President AFP How Significant Are China’s Military Drills Around Taiwan? Helen Davidson and Amy Hawkins, The Guardian No PLA Live-Fire Exercises Detected in Taiwan Strait: Taiwan Military Joseph Yeh, CNA Chinese Military Drills Around Taiwan Could Be First in Series: Expert Lee Ya-wen, Wu Shu-wei, Lai Yu-chen and Evelyn Kao, CNA Report to Congress on TikTok and China’s Digital Platforms USNI News U.S. Questions U.K. Claims That China Is Providing ‘Lethal Aid’ to Russia John Paul Rathbone and Max Seddon, Financial Times Competing Digital Futures: Europe and China in Central Asia’s Tech Development Andrew Gundal and Eldaniz Gusseinov, The Diplomat
May 22, 2024 ASML and TSMC Can Disable Chip Machines if China Invades Taiwan Diederik Baazil, Cagan Koc and Jordan Robertson, Bloomberg Thousands Gather in Taiwan to Protest Parliamentary Reforms on First Day of Lai Ching-te’s Presidency AFP China Has a Point About Taiwan’s New Leader Kathrin Hille, Financial Times New Caledonia: Macron’s Ultimatum Strategy Nathalie Segaunes, Le Monde China Increasingly Forcing Rural Tibetans to Move: Report Marrian Zhou, Nikkei ‘Educate the Masses to Change Their Minds’ Human Rights Watch Chinese Journalist Zhang Zhan Released After Four Years’ Jail Over Coverage of COVID-19 AFP
May 21, 2024 Inaugural Address of ROC 16th-Term President Lai Ching-te Office of the President Republic of China (Taiwan) As Taiwan’s New President Takes Office, Report Warns of Cyber Side lf China’s ‘Long-Term’ Strategy Colin Clark, Breaking Defense Philippines Calls on China to Open Scarborough Shoal to Scrutiny Philippine Daily Inquirer By, With and Through at the Second Thomas Shoal Nick Danby, War on the Rocks ‘Fast Movers’: Chinese Satellites Zoom Around for Inspections — or Interference David D. Chen and Peter W. Singer, Defense One Investigation Finds BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Volkswagen Bought Parts Linked to Forced Labor in China Nick Robertson, The Hill BlackRock Whistleblower Sues Over Firing, Shutdown of China Monitoring Tool Reuters Hong Kong Media Mogul Jimmy Lai’s Lawyers to Argue No Case to Answer at National Security Trial Hans Tse, Hong Kong Free Press
May 20, 2024 The Battlegrounds That Could Decide a U.S.-China War Over Taiwan Financial Times Notes From Central Taiwan: Hollowing Out Taiwan’s Economy Michael Turton, Taipei Times Generational Divide Clear in Travel to China: Tourism Administration Liao Wen-chi and Lee Hsin-Yin, CNA Taiwan Urged to Speed Up Military Reform, Demonstrate Self-Defense Ability Teng Pei-ju, CNA China’s Support of Russia’s War in Ukraine Major Concern for U.S., Says Official John Grady, USNI News Filipino Fishers Spot Pipe Installation ‘in Middle of’ Scarborough: NGO John Eric Mendoza, Philippine Daily Inquirer Why Is This Small Town Mayor Accused of Being a Chinese Spy? Joel Guinto, BBC News
May 17, 2024 Worry as Release of Wuhan Blogger Remains Unclear Kelly Ng and Joel Guinto, BBC News China Cyberattacks Targeting Taiwan on the Rise Ahead of Lai Inauguration Wu Sheng-hung and Joseph Yeh, CNA U.S. Postured to Lose Without a Standing Combined Joint Task Force in INDOPACOM John D. Rosenberger, Breaking Defense China-Russia: An Economic ‘Friendship’ That Could Rattle the World Joe Leahy, Kai Waluszewski and Max Seddon, Financial Times CMSI Translations #3: Discussion on the Requirements and Methods of Intelligent Decision-Making in Torpedo Attacks by Unmanned Underwater Vehicles China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College Can Taiwan Block Telegram? Charles Mok, The Diplomat China’s Cultural Revolution and Mao’s External Threat Inflation: Crushing Soviet-Style Capitalist Restoration, 1966–1969 Yinan He, Journal of Cold War Studies
May 16, 2024 China-Linked Group Uses Malware to Try to Spy on Commercial Shipping, New Report Says Dan De Luce and Jean-Nicholas Fievet, NBC News Philippines Reacts to China Releasing Transcript of ‘New Model’ Discussion With WESCOM Commander Joaquin Camarena, Atlas News China’s Master Plan to Harass (and Kidnap) Dissidents and Refugees Abroad Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter Turkey Accused of Accepting Chinese Hush Money to Remain Silent on the Plight of Uyghurs Abdullah Bozkurt, Nordic Monitor China Builds World’s First Dedicated Drone Carrier H I Sutton, Naval News Taiwan’s First Civilian Defense Chief in a Decade, Wellington Koo Faces Reform Challenge Joseph Yeh, Matt Yu, Wu Shu-wei and Yeh Su-ping, CNA First Big Shoes to Fill as Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu to Shift Posts Joseph Yeh, CNA Taiwan President-Elect Lai Reiterates Openness to Dialogue With Beijing Teng Pei-ju, CNA Taiping Island Trip Aimed at Pressing Lai on Sovereignty: Analysts Sean Lin, CNA Should Taiwan Attempt to Replicate the Zelensky Playbook? Jason Vogt, Nina Kollars and Michael Poznansky, War on the Rocks
May 15, 2024 U.S. and Taiwan Navies Quietly Held Pacific Drills in April Reuters Taiwan Not Invited to World Health Assembly, Again Joseph Yeh, CNA Could China Employ an Insidious Boiled Frog Approach to Improve Taiwan Ties? Courtney Donovan Smith, Taipei Times Britain Summons Chinese Envoy After ‘Spy’ Arrests Taipei Times U.K. Navy to Buy Six Vessels, Enters New ‘Golden Age’ of Shipbuilding Linus Holler, Defense News U.S. Troops Put New Philippine Military Sites to Test in Balikatan Drill Jen Judson, Defense News ‘No Silver Bullet:’ U.S. Military Will Need Multiple Systems to Back Up GPS Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense China and the Death Penalty: A Well-Kept Secret Together Against the Death Penalty Top Official From China's Xinjiang Says ‘Sinicization’ of Islam ‘Inevitable’ Laurie Chen, Reuters
May 14, 2024 New Player in Chinese Communist Influence Body Has Extensive NYC Political Ties Jimmy Quinn, National Review China Is Still Harassing Dissidents Who Fled in the 1990s Gordon Corera, BBC News China Due to Free Vlogger Who Filmed Wuhan Lockdown Kelly Ng, BBC News China May Be Starting Work on Another Artificial Island in South China Sea The Maritime Executive HASC Chairman’s Mark Authorizes Second Virginia-class Submarine, Cuts $1B from Delayed Frigate Program Mallory Shelbourne, USNI News A Plan to Revitalize the Arsenal of Democracy Michael Brown, War on the Rocks A Domain of Great Powers: The Strategic Role of Space in Achieving China’s Dream of National Rejuvenation Khyle Eastin, The National Bureau of Asian Research