January 29, 2024 Taiwan Has Become the Russian Arms Industry’s Main Source for High Precision Machine Tools Andrey Zayakin and Yian Lee, The Insider Taiwan Indigenous Teng Yun 2 Drone Falls Short in Combat Readiness Testing Matt Yu and Evelyn Kao, CNA Taipei Civil Defense Drill Simulates Wartime Scenarios Sean Lin, CNA Drone Jamming Guns, Radar System to Protect Critical Taiwan Infrastructure Lin Ching-hua and Jason Pan, Taipei Times Chinese Engineers Are Keeping Russia’s Metal Furnaces Firing Bloomberg A New Great Game: China, India and the Dalai Lama Jalis Akhtar Nasiri, Bitter Winter Exclusive: China Presses Iran to Rein in Houthi Attacks in Red Sea, Sources Say Parisa Hafezi and Andrew Hayley, Reuters China’s PLAN Exercises With YJ-62 Anti-Ship Missile Kosuke Takahashi, Naval News
January 26, 2024 Taiwan Conscripts Starting One-Year Military Service Report to Boot Camps Matt Yu and Ko Lin, CNA On West Philippine Sea Issue, Chinese Envoy Says Philippines Should Follow Marcos’ Guidance ‘Instead of Any Officials’ JP Soriano, GMA Integrated News Berklee College of Music Student Convicted of Stalking, Threatening Individual Promoting Democracy in China Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice China in Overdrive to Defend Its U.N.-Battered Rights Record Ahead of Review Report Tibetan Review U.S. Company Must Stop Supplying China’s Regime With DNA Surveillance Tech Maya Wang and Yves Moreau, The Hill Hong Kong to Set Up Special Teams to Promote Upcoming, New Security Law, and Rebut ‘Hostile’ Criticism Irene Chan, Hong Kong Free Press New Documents Strengthen — Perhaps Conclusively — the Lab-Leak Hypothesis of COVID-19’s Origins Nicholas Wade, City Journal ASML’s China Sales Surged Despite Secret Dutch Deal With U.S. Cagan Koc, Ian King and Diederik Baazil, Bloomberg A British Businessman Worked in China for Decades. Then, He Vanished Newley Purnell and Neil Western, The Wall Street Journal Science Fiction Awards Held in China Under Fire for Excluding Authors Amy Hawkins, The Guardian
January 25, 2024 Destroyer USS John Finn Performs First Taiwan Strait Transit of 2024 Mallory Shelbourne, USNI News Tuvalu Election: What’s Happening, and What Could It Mean for Taiwan, China and the Pacific? Prianka Srinivasan, The Guardian Nauru Does a Deal on Taiwan Joel Atkinson, Barbarian Distinction Senior China Envoy Dismisses Qin Gang Removal as ‘Not Uncommon’ Kevin Whitelaw and Rebecca Choong Wilkins, Bloomberg Top Hong Kong Court Overturns Tiananmen Activist Chow Hang-tung’s Acquittal Over 2021 Remembrance Vigil James Lee, Hong Kong Press For Xi, Turning China Into a ‘Financial Powerhouse’ Means More State Control Lingling Wei, The Wall Street Journal Chinese Regulators May Be Having Second Thoughts About Online Gaming Crackdown: Proposed Rule Changes Have Been Removed From Government Website Andy Chalk, PC Gamer Oceans Under Pressure: China’s Challenge to the Maritime Order Peter Alan Dutton, Council on Geostrategy
January 24, 2024 Rocket-Powered Corruption: Why the Missile Industry Became the Target of Xi’s Purge Elliot Ji, War on the Rocks Crisis in the Taiwan Strait Likely in 2024, Experts Say Clayton Vickers, The Hill China’s Feared Spy Agency Steps Out of the Shadows Joe Leahy, Financial Times Taiwan Begins Building Anti-Submarine Frigate Gordon Arthur, Defense News Japan Scrambled Fighters 555 Times in the Last Nine Months of 2023, Defense Ministry Says Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News China’s Human Rights Record Criticized at U.N. as It Faces Rare Scrutiny of Policies Amy Hawkins, The Guardian
January 23, 2023 EU to Ringfence More High-Tech Areas From China Jeff Pao, Asia Times China Selloff Leads to Record $38 Trillion Gap With U.S. Stocks Abhishek Vishnoi, Bloomberg BlackRock to Sell Shanghai Office Towers at 30% Discount, Sources Say Bloomberg Enforcement of China Forced-Labor Import Ban Needs to Be Much Tougher, Say U.S. Lawmakers Richard Vanderford, The Wall Street Journal China Races to Buy Chip-Making Equipment as U.S. Cracks Down on Exports Karina Tsui, Semafor Chinese Music Student Faces U.S. Trial for Allegedly Threating Activist Reuters Activists Decry Tibet ‘Cultural Genocide’ Ahead of China Rights Review Nina Larson, AFP Playing the Long Game: Ukraine’s Approach to China Rakshith Shetty, The Diplomat
January 22, 2024 AMD Removes Taiwan Branding From CPUs, Says Change Wasn’t Made to Appease China Paul Alcorn, Tom’s Hardware Notes From Central Taiwan: Taiwan’s Elections Change Nothing Michael Turton, Taipei Times Taiwan’s Doubts About America Are Growing. That Could Be Dangerous Damien Cave and Amy Chang Chien, The New York Times The European Parliament Condemns China for Persecuting Falun Gong, Mentions Organ Harvesting Again Marco Respinti, Bitter Winter Japan, NATO Weigh a Dedicated Line for Sharing Security Information Takashi Tsuji, Nikkei Taiwan Missile Command to Be Set Up This Year Lo Tien-pin and Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times Air Base Runways to Be Widened, Source Says Yu Tai-lang and William Hetherington, Taipei Times India’s Newfound Assertiveness Is a Feature of the Great Game in South Asia Saira Bano, The Interpreter China Coast Guard Harassed Filipino Fishermen in Bajo De Masinloc, Philippine Coast Guard Confirms ABS-CBN News China Widens South America Trade Highway With Silk Road Mega Port Marco Aquino and Adam Jourdan, Reuters
January 19, 2024 2024 Taiwan Elections: Pre-Election Telephone Surveys — Research Data Doublethink Lab Senior U.S. Lawmakers Set to Visit Taiwan Despite Inevitable Backlash From China: Report Arpan Rai, The Independent The True Cost of Chinese Solar Panels Quillan Robinson, Time China’s 2023 Coal Output Hits Record High Colleen Howe, Reuters China’s 2023 Coal Imports Hit Record on Rising Demand, High Domestic Prices Colleen Howe, Reuters Nearly Half of Journalists Jailed in China Are Uyghurs, Report Says Liam Scott, Voice of America Chinese Navy Next Generation Frigate Starts Builder Trials Alex Luck, Naval News Japan Signs Contract With U.S. on Tomahawk Missile Purchase Kyodo EU Envoy Slams China’s ‘Obsession With National Security,’ Questions Economic Rebound Finbarr Bermingham, South China Morning Post Share of China’s Top Companies In The Private Sector Continued to Steadily Decline in 2023 Tianlei Huang and Nicolas Veron, Peterson Institute for International Economics
January 18, 2024 What Is Taiwan’s New President Going to Do About China? Timothy S. Rich, Foreign Policy Analysis: In Taiwan, Distrust of Xi Jinping’s China Is Real Katsuji Nakazawa, Nikkei China Fumes at Countries That Congratulate Taiwan for Election That Rebuked Beijing Colin Clark, Breaking Defense Taiwan Unable to Host Asian Volleyball Tourney Due to China Chen Jung-chen and Wu Kuan-hsien, CNA Two-Thirds of Adults in Taiwan Consider Themselves Primarily Taiwanese Pew Research Center Leo Varadkar Dismisses Claim He Said Taiwan Should Be Reunified With China Paul Hosford and Tadgh McNally, Irish Examiner Beijing Could Be Using Douyin to Sow Distrust: Experts Chen Yu-ful, Hsieh Chun-lin and Jake Chung, Taipei Times Beijing Points Finger at Japan Over Sonar Attack on Australian Warship HMAS Toowoomba Andrew Greene, ABC News China Snubs Zelenskyy in Switzerland Suzanne Lynch, Nahal Toosi, John F. Harris and Alex Ward Economic Diplomacy: To Market, to Market, With China Greg Earl, The Interpreter
January 17, 2024 Marcos Congratulates Taiwan’s President-Elect Lai Ching-te; China Summons Philippines Envoy CNN Philippines China Rebukes Singapore, Manila For Congratulating Taiwan Leader Philip J. Heijmans and Andreo Calonzo, Bloomberg Game Changer: The Philippines’ Assertive Transparency Campaign Ray Powell and Benjamin Goirigolzarri, SeaLight Taiwan’s Investment Into China Plunges to Lowest in Two Decades Cindy Wang, Bloomberg Batten the Hatches: Rough Times Ahead After Taiwan Elections Dean Cheng, Breaking Defense China’s Population Decline Accelerated Last Year Liyan Qi, The Wall Street Journal Liz Truss Secretly Lobbied Ministers to ‘Expedite’ Defense Exports to China Graham Lanktree, Politico
January 16, 2025 Philippines Plans to Upgrade Outposts in South China Sea AFP China Targeted Nauru in Election Reprisal: Official Chen Yun, Taipei Times Communist Party Must ‘Win the Hearts’ of People In Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan: Xi Jinping Natalie Wong, South China Morning Post U.S. Delegation Praises Taiwan’s Democracy After Pro-independence Presidential Candidate Wins Election Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press China’s Military and Government Acquire Nvidia Chips Despite U.S. Ban Eduardo Baptista, Reuters Chinese Communist Party Billionaire Secretly Purchased 200,000 Acres of U.S. Land a Decade Ago, Sparking Bipartisan Outrage Isabel Vincent, New York Post Montenegro’s Scandal-Ridden Chinese Road Nicholas Muller, The Diplomat Chinese Chipmakers Boost Networking With Japanese Companies to Navigate Export Controls Qianer Liu, Financial Times Surveying the Seas: China’s Dual-Use Research Operations in the Indian Ocean Center for Strategic and International Studies To Better Support Taiwan, Push Europe’s Defense Industry to Do More for Ukraine Eric Gomez, Breaking Defense
January 15, 2024 Lai Leads DPP to Historic Third Term Chen Yun, Lin Hsin-han and Huang Ching-hsuan, Taipei Times Taiwan May Be A Tech Hub, But Use of Paper Ballots Steeped In History Alison Hsiao, CNA Taiwan’s Manual Ballot Counting Ensures Transparency: Observers Chung Yu-chen, CNA Nauru to Sever Diplomatic Ties With Taiwan in Favor of China Helen Davidson and Amy Hawkins, The Guardian Taiwan Election: China Says U.S. ‘Gravely Wrong’ to Congratulate New Leader Malu Cursino and Laura Bicker, BBC Taiwan Unlikely to See ‘Full-Scale Invasion’ by Beijing in Next Few Years, Defence Expert Says Mercedes Hutton, Hong Kong Free Press Australia Warned Over Taiwan Support by China Will Glasgow, The Australian Why U.S. Naval Power Needs Asian Allies Choi Kang and Peter K. Lee, War on the Rocks Notes From Central Taiwan: Undocumented Babies, Documented Foreigners Michael Turton, Taipei Times
January 12, 2024 What Killed U.S.–China Engagement? Joseph S. Nye, The Strategist How I Became a Prop in Hong Kong’s Show Trials Luke de Pulford, Foreign Policy U.K. Prime Minister Says Jimmy Lai Trial ‘Politically Motivated,’ Hong Kong Government Slams ‘Interference’ Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong Police Take Mother of Wanted U.S.-Based Activist Frances Hui Away for Questioning Hong Kong Free Press KMT Presidential Nominee Hou Rules Out Unification Talks With China Joseph Yeh, CNA Ships Advertise Chinese Links to Avoid Houthi Attack in Red Sea Alex Longley, Bloomberg China-Linked Volt Typhoon Hackers Possibly Targeting Australian, UK Governments Ionut Arghire, Security Week The Next Front in the U.S.-China Battle Over Chips Don Clark and Ana Swanson, The New York Times