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
May 13, 2024 China Exploring Disputed Shoal for Reclamation, Philippines Says Andreo Calonzo, Bloomberg Philippines Fishers on Chinese Bullying: ‘Babawiin Ko’ Krixia Subingsubing, Philippine Daily Inquirer Counter-Coercion Series: Scarborough Shoal Standoff Michael Green, Kathleen Hicks, Zack Cooper, John Schaus and Jake Douglas, China Still Set on Sowing Division, Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council Report Says Chen Yu-fu and William Hetherington, Taipei Times ‘I’m Singaporean, Not Chinese’: TikTok Video Sparks Debate Over Shunning of ‘Roots’ Kimberly Lim, South China Morning Post East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse and How It Will Reshape World Politics Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs Encounters and Escalation in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives on China’s Military and Implications for Regional Security The National Bureau of Asian Research
May 10, 2024 U.S. Official Says Chinese Seizure of TSMC in Taiwan Would Be ‘Absolutely Devastating’ David Shepardson, Reuters Eleven Chinese Vessels Detected in Taiwan-Controlled Waters Off Kinmen Hung Hsueh-kuang and Sean Lin, CNA Matsu Halts Plan to Help Residents Apply For China City Pass: Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council Sunny Lai, CNA Philippines and Partners Conduct Successful SINKEX In South China Sea Jeoffrey Maitem, Naval News In Fiery Speech, Aussie Defense Chief Urges Support for ‘Extraordinary’ AUKUS Subs Colin Clark, Breaking Defense Hungary and Serbia’s Autocratic Leaders to Roll Out Red Carpet for China’s Xi During Europe Tour Justin Spike and Jovana Gec, Associated Press
May 9, 2024 How DC Became Obsessed With a Potential 2027 Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Noah Robertson, Breaking Defense China Changes Story on Military Confrontation, Accuses Australia of Spying Stephen Dziedzic, ABC News Philippines Fires First Anti-Ship Missile in South China Sea Strike Test With U.S. and Australian Forces Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News U.S., Philippine Troops Sink China-Made Vessel in Drills AFP Washington Warns EU on Threat of Xi-Orban-Vucic Axis Andrew Rettman, EUobserver U.S. Eyes Curbs on China’s Access to AI Software Behind Apps Like ChatGPT Alexandra Alper, Reuters
May 8, 2024 China Threatens to Release Audio of Secret Deal With Philippines Peter Martin and Manolo Serapio Jr, Bloomberg Partners Installing Undersea Cables: Blinken Liu Tzu-hsuan, Taipei Times China’s Mouthpieces Go Quiet Shogo Akagawa and Takero Minami, Nikkei Germany, France to Send Naval and Air Forces to Indo-Pacific Shogo Akagawa and Takero Minami, Nikkei The State Department’s Complex Role in Making China Policy Jiachen Shi, The Diplomat Banned Chinese Cotton Found in 19% of Products, Study Shows Reuters It’s Still the Indian Ocean: Parsing Sino-Indian Naval Competition Where It Counts Prashant Hosur Suhas and Christopher K. Colley, War on the Rocks A New U.S. Economic Playbook to Lead the World Economy and Counter China Kaush Arha, Peter Harrell and Clete Willems, New Atlanticist