April 19, 2024 China’s High-Altitude WZ-7 Drone Has Appeared Near the Philippines Joseph Trevithick, The War Zone Solomon Islands Election Count Underway, China Critic Suidani Regains Seat Kirsty Needham, Reuters Taiwan Upgrades Satellite Network System on Taiping Island Sunny Lai, CNA Wall Street Channeled Billions to Blacklisted China Firms: U.S. Probe Jack Stone Truitt, Nikkei Nokia Cuts Orders With China-Listed Supplier as U.S. Pushes ‘Clean Network’ Lauly Li, Nikkei How Chris Dodd Helped Bring Hollywood and China Together Jack Butler, National Revie How a ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Finalist Became an Unlikely Ambassador for Taiwan Vic Chiang, The Washington Post
April 18, 2024 China Is Battening Down for the Gathering Storm Over Taiwan Mike Studeman, War on the Rocks Hong Kong Drops Out Of World’s Top 10 Busiest Container Ports Gavin van Marle, The Loadstar Apple-Baidu Partnership Risks Accelerating China’s Influence Over the Future of Generative AI Michael Caster, The Diplomat China Seeks to Subvert Rules-Based International Order by Taking Over UN: Whistleblower Naomi Canton, The Times of India China Criticizes U.S. P-8A Surveillance Flight Through Taiwan Strait Mallory Shelbourne, USNI News Taiwan to Establish Littoral Combat Command in 2026 Tso-Juei Hsu, Naval News Taiwan Submarine Head’s Departure Could Impact Program Lo Tien-pin and Jake Chung, Taipei Times KMT Lawmakers to Visit China for ‘Peaceful’ Talks: Caucus Convener Lin Ching-yin and Lee Hsin-Yin, CNA Sanctioned Chinese Security Camera Maker Dahua Divests From U.S. Kenji Kawase, Nikkei
April 17, 2024 China Sends Fighter Jets to Shadow U.S. Navy Plane Over Taiwan Strait Ryan Woo, Reuters Tom Cotton Urges Biden to Open Investigation Into Temu, Says It Might Be ‘More Dangerous than TikTok’ Jimmy Quinn, National Review Morgan Stanley Is Planning Biggest China Job Cuts in Years Cathy Chan, Bloomberg Taiwan Participates in Tuvalu Undersea Cable Project Matthew Strong. Taiwan News Call in the Coast Guard: How Maritime Law Enforcement Can Combat China’s Gray-Zone Aggression Eric Cooper, War on the Rocks EJF Analysis of China’s Distant-Water Fleet Alleges Connections to IUU, Human Rights Issues Chris Chase, SeafoodSource Hypersonics Research Collaboration Between the United States and the PRC China Aerospace Studies Institute
April 16, 2024 Xi Jinping and Collective Punishment of Human Rights Defenders’ Families Renee Xia and Sophie Richardson, The Diplomat Taiwan’s Land Sword II Missile Tests Successful Tsai Tsung-hsien, Taipei Times Chinese Company Under Congressional Scrutiny Makes Key U.S. Drugs Christina Jewett, The New York Times China’s Economy, Propelled by Its Factories, Grew at Start of Year Keith Bradsher and Alexandra Stevenson, The New York Times Taiwanese Academic Jailed for Seven Years in China Chen Yu-fu and William Hetherington, Taipei Times Taiwan to Have Increased Access to U.S. Armaments: Academics Wu Che-yu and Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou Is Not ‘Irrelevant’ Courtney Donovan Smith, Taipei Times China Maritime Report No. 37: Re-Engaging With the World: China’s Military Diplomacy in 2023 Jie Gao and Kenneth W. Allen, U.S. Naval War College U.S. Army’s Mid-Range Capability Makes Its First Deployment in the Philippines for Salaknib 24 U.S. Army Pacific Get the U.S. Navy’s Frigate Program Back on Schedule Everett Pyatt, Defense News ‘We Are Out of Time’: Air Force Secretary Warns China’s Military Catching Up as U.S. Bungles Budgets Corey Dickstein, Stars and Stripes
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