November 23, 2023 An Asia Hand’s Argument for Putting Ukraine First Michael Mazza, Breaking Defense Europe Still Working With China on Military and Surveillance Uses of Artificial Intelligence, Report Finds David Matthews, Science Business Taiwan Opposition Deadlock Persists as Registration Deadline Nears Chung Yu-chen, CNA Hon Hai Fined in China Over Misreported Tax Issues Kayleigh Madjar, Taipei Times How Should the West Respond to China’s Challenge to the Rules-Based International Order? Andrew Latha and Eliora Hansonbrook, The Hill Xi Critic Who Fled 300 Kilometers on Jet Ski to South Korea Will Die if Sent Back to China, says father Amy Hawkins, The Guardian U.S. Submarine Production Rate Will Not Hinder AUKUS Representative Joe Courtney, Defense News Uruguay Upgrades China Ties to Match Big South American Neighbors Joe Cash and Ryan Woo, Reuters Greece Warns Officials Not to Attend Taiwan Events Over China Fears Zhaoyin Feng, Nikkei
November 22, 2023 Only 9.3% in Taiwan Trust China, Public Trust in the U.S. Slips: Poll Jake Chung, Taipei Times Xi Ignoring U.S. Warning Not to Meddle in Taiwan’s Elections Taipei Times Australia’s Albanese Paid a High Price for His Trip to China Lavina Lee, Nikkei China: Human Rights Watch Accuses Beijing of Closing and Destroying Mosques Kelly Ng, BBC Commentary: U.S. Will Only Have Itself to Blame if China’s Economic Influence in Asia Grows Kevin Chen, Channel News Asia U.S. Advises Philippines on Warship Repair on China-Claimed Atoll Ryo Nakamura and Ramon Royandoyan, Nikkei U.S., Philippines Begin Three Days of Joint Patrols in the South China Sea Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News A New Front Is Opening Up in the U.S.-China Conflict Over Chips Jane Lanhee Lee, Ian King, Mackenzie Hawkins and Jillian Deutsch, Bloomberg Hou Vows to Wait for Ko ‘Until the Last Minute’ as Registration Deadline Looms Chung Yu-chen, CNA Notes From Central Taiwan: Heartbreaking Racism Towards Indians Michael Turton, Taipei Times China’s Support for Russia Has Been Hindering Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Markus Garlauskas, Joseph Webster and Emma C. Verges, Atlantic Council
November 21, 2023 F-16 Shipments to Taiwan at ‘High Risk’ of Delays, Lawmakers Say Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg U.S. Lawmakers Push for Taiwan Aid Liu Tzu-hsuan, Taipei Times Aussie Prime Minister Raises ‘Strongest Possible Objection’ After Diver Allegedly Injured by Chinese Ship Colin Clark, Breaking Defense Philippines Woos Neighbours to Craft Code on South China Sea Neil Jerome Morales and Karen Lema, Reuters Remarks by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. for the Daniel K. Inouye Speaker Series at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies GOV.PH Taiwan’s Presidential Frontrunner Faces a Balancing Act With China Charlie Campbell, Time ‘Back for Taiwan’: Hsiao Bi-khim Accepts DPP’s Vice Presidential Nomination Teng Pei-ju and Joseph Yeh, CNA Gou Campaign Says ‘Anything Possible’ After Meeting With TPP’s Ko Lai Yu-chen and Matthew Mazzetta, CNA Rights Group Says Police Ignored Attacks on Protesters by Pro-China Activists Bill Gertz, The Washington Times The World Still Thinks China Is Rising: Polling Shows Beijing Is Seen as Powerful — and Malign Garima Mohan and Chris J. Murphy, Foreign Policy OSINT: Chinese Type-003 Aircraft Carrier Moved, May Indicate Sea Trials H I Sutton, Covert Shores
November 20, 2023 HMAS Toowoomba Naval Divers Forced to Exit Water Over Chinese Warship Sonar Pulses Andrew Greene, ABC News U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Chinese Police Institute Accused of Human Rights Abuses Emily Feng, NPR Still Ways to Go Before Military-to-Military Talks With China Restart: National Security Council Official Colin Clark, Breaking Defense Bloody Clashes Erupt Between Pro-, Anti-China Demonstrators at APEC Chloe Shrager, San Francisco Chronicle U.S. Business Leaders Condemned for Applauding Xi Jinping Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter Taiwan People’s Party Ko Commits to Presidential Battle, Hints at Joint Ticket Collapse Chung Yu-chen, Wang Cheng-chung, Chen Chun-hua, and Kao Hua-chien, CNA China’s Rise is Reversing Ruchir Sharma, The Financial Times China, Pakistan Wrap Up Naval Drill Featuring Sub, High-Tech Destroyer Usman Ansari, Defense News Army’s New Typhon Strike Weapon Headed to Indo-Pacific in 2024 Ashley Roque, Breaking Defense Solomon Islands’ Pacific Games Caught in Big-Power Rivalry as Chinese Money Rolls In AFP
November 17, 2023 U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Chinese Institute Linked to Oppression of Uyghurs to Seek Fentanyl Cooperation Nike Ching, Voice of America Biden-Xi Summit: China Plans for World Domination Become Clearer Hal Brands, Bloomberg With Xi in U.S., China’s Influencers Put Lid on Anti-West Rhetoric Marrian Zhou, Nikkei The Big Takeaways From the Biden-Xi APEC Meeting Alexandra Sharp, Foreign Policy Biden Launches AI ‘Risk and Safety’ Talks With China. Is Nuclear C2 a Likely Focus? Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., Breaking Defense Tibet’s Government-in-Exile Urges Australia Not to ‘Compromise’ on China’s Human Rights Record Daniel Hurst, The Guardian Taiwan Has Just Opened a Window of Opportunity to China Karishma Vaswani, Bloomberg Fleets of Force: How China Strong-Armed Its Way Into Dominating the South China Sea Agnes Chang and Hannah Beech, The New York Times After U.S. Report Calls Hong Kong a ‘Chinese Rather Than International City,’ Government Slams ‘Slanders and Smears’ Hans Tse, Hong Kong Free Press The U.S. Pivot to Asia Faces More Obstacles Alexander Gale, 19FortyFive U.S. Marines Stand Up New Regiment, Chinese Warships Sail in East China Sea Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News AUKUS Partners to Develop Common Control System for Drones Ben Felton, Naval News
November 16, 2023 Ko-Hou Ticket Worst Scenario for DPP in Taiwan Presidential Election: Source Chung Yu-chen, Wen Kuei-hsiang and Yeh Su-ping, CNA The U.S. Will Not Sabotage Taipei’s Mayor Ko Mark Simon, Substack Biden Cautions China on Election Interference in Taiwan Brett Samuels, The Hill Joe Biden Halts Plan for Indo-Pacific Trade Deal After Opposition From Democrats Demetri Sevastopulo and Alex Rogers, Financial Times Biden and Xi Meeting: Taiwan, Iran, Fentanyl and AI Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason, Reuters Biden Says He Still Believes Xi Jinping Is a Dictator Donald Judd, CNN U.S., Philippine Defense Chiefs Slam China, Seek Greater Ties Cliff Harvey Venzon, Bloomberg China Leads List of Labor Abusers, Sometimes Akin to Slavery, Detected on Fishing Vessels Worldwide Joshua Goodman, Associated Press DPP Unveils Legislator-at-Large List, With Kuma Academy’s Puma Shen Chen Yun and Jason Pan, Taipei Times Talking to Biden, Preparing for War — U.S. Panel Sees Xi Bracing China for Conflict to Come Bill Gertz, The Washington Times Biden, Xi, and ‘Responsible Management’ of Atrocity Crimes Sophie Richardson, The Diplomat
November 15, 202 Taiwan’s KMT, TPP to Form Joint Presidential Ticket Based Upon Polling Results Chung Yu-chen, CNA Joe Biden to Make Controversial Human Rights Tradeoff as Price for China’s Help Tackling Fentanyl Crisis Tony Diver, The Telgraph What Do We Know About Forced Labor in Xinjiang? Amy Hawkins, The Guardian China Is Slowly Erasing Tibet’s Name Micah McCartney, Newsweek Taiwanese Troops May Be on Their Way to Train on U.S. Soil Bryant Harris, Defense News Taiwanese Reporters Harassed Outside Xi’s Hotel at APEC Forum Nancy Chang and Sean Lin, CNA Terry Gou Officially Qualifies for Taiwan Presidential Election Sean Lin, CNA What America’s Top China Commission Is Worried About Rishi Iyengar, Foreign Policy U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission 2023 Annual Report to Congress S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Thin Ice in the Himalayas: Handling the India-China Border Dispute International Crisis Group
November 14, 2023 China Is Using the World’s Largest Known Online Disinformation Operation to Harass Americans, a CNN Review Finds Donie O'Sullivan, Curt Devine and Allison Gordon, CNN Chinese Navy’s Suspected New Overseas Base in Cambodia Now Even Larger H I Sutton, Naval News KMT, TPP Agree to Use Polls to Determine Joint Presidential Ticket Wang Chen-chung, Hsiao Po-yang and Chung Yu-chen, CNA Biden, Xi to Announce Deal for China to Crack Down on Fentanyl Jenny Leonard, Bloomberg Is Military Space-Based Jamming Normal? Some Worry It Is Kristin Burke, War on the Rocks Placating Xi Won’t Change China’s Behavior Thomas J. Duesterberg, The Wall Street Journal China’s Appeal to Poor Countries Is Changing Roger McShane, The Economist Xi Jinping Enlists Flying Tigers as China’s Propagandists Seek Warmer Tone on U.S. Joe Leahy, Sun Yu and Corbin Duncan, The Financial Times Battle Cries and Bluster: Decoding Hong Kong’s Reactions to Proposed New U.S. Sanctions Samuel Bickett, Substack Russia Tries and Fails to Gain a Foothold in Asia-Pacific Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation Japanese Izumo-Class Warship Headed to East Coast for F-35B Trials as U.K. Carriers Expand JSF Capabilities Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News
November 13, 2023 New Taiwanese Missiles Can Travel 2,000 kilometers: Source Lo Tien-pin and William Hetherington, Taipei Times Nvidia Skirting U.S. Sanctions: Chinese State Media Reuters Chinese PhD Students at Top Universities Given ‘Ideological Training’ Before Entering U.K. Louisa Clarence-Smith, The Telegraph Ireland Set to Put Greater Scrutiny on Chinese Investment Arvind Jayaram, The Straits Times Japan-Led Navy Exercise Starts With Philippines Observing for First Time Sakura Murakami, Reuters Ex-President Ma Backs Polling as Escape From KMT-TPP Joint Ticket Morass Liu Kuan-ting, Fan Cheng-hsiang, Tsai Meng-yu, Huang Kuo-fang and Alison Hsiao, CNA How a Decaying Warship Beached on a Tiny Shoal Provoked China’s Ire Camille Elemia, The New York Times China’s Misunderstood Nuclear Expansion M. Taylor Fravel, Henrik Stålhane Hiim, and Magnus Langset Trøan, Foreign Affairs India Plans Taiwan Labor Supply Pact While China Tensions Brew Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Shruti Srivastava, and Betty Hou, Bloomberg Chinese Aircraft Carrier Shandong Lingers in Taiwan Strait, Philippine Resupply Mission Harassed Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News India, China Fight for Influence Over Tiny Archipelago Nation Rajesh Roy, The Wall Street Journal
November 10, 2023 Surge and Swarm: How China’s Ships Control the South China Sea Niharika Mandhana, The Wall Street Journal A Chinese Dispute With the Philippines is a Test of America The Economist Pulse Asia: Big Majority of Filipinos Want Stronger Ties With U.S., Japan CNN Philippines Japan Grants Security Assistance to the Philippines, Looks to Enhance Military Cooperation Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News China Slipped Back Into Deflation in October: Data AFP Republicans Demand Biden Challenge China’s Xi on Fentanyl, Prisoners Michael Martina, Reuters China Has a Sweeping Vision to Reshape the World — and Countries Are Listening Simone McCarthy, CNN
November 9, 2023 Scoop: Biden and Xi Prepare to Restart Military-to-Military Channels Hans Nichols and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Axios China Is Trying to Change What Human Rights Mean Josh Birenbaum, The National Interest Be Ready for Chinese Military Operations by Late 2020s: Ex-U.S. Official Joseph Yeh, CNA How China Now Rules the Waves Aadil Brar, Newsweek Taiwan Official Outlines What ECFA End Would Affect Chen Yu-fu and Jake Chung, Taipei Times China Unlikely to Launch ‘D-Day’ on Taiwan, Singapore Prime Minister Says By Philip J. Heijmans and Rebecca Choong Wilkins Shandong Heading North After Passing Through Taiwan Strait Joseph Yeh, CNA U.S. Navy Sub Boss Reveals New Details on AUKUS Virginia Class Sub Sales to Australia Justin Katz, Breaking Defense Catholic Bishops Speak Up for Jimmy Lai The Wall Street Journal China Has Acquired a Global Network of Strategically Vital Ports Liz Sly and Júlia Ledur, The Washington Post
November 8, 2023 Delays in U.S. Arms Shipments to Taiwan Improving, Official Says Miaojung Lin and Debby Wu, Bloomberg Taiwan’s Increased Defense Budget Key for International Support: Ex-U.S. Official Chung Yu-chen, CNA Tracking China’s Control of Overseas Ports Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Council on Foreign Relations Belt and Road Reboot: Beijing’s Bid to De-Risk Its Global Infrastructure Initiative AidData Armed Forces of the Philippines Wants Faster Boats During Resupply Missions Xianne Arcangel, CNN Philippines Vietnam Rapidly Builds Up South China Sea Reef Radio Free Asia Presidential Candidate Choice ‘Only Hurdle’ Left for Joint Ticket: Ko Yeh Chen, Wang Chen-chung, Kuo Chien-shen and Chung Yu-chen, CNA Two Myths About Counterforce James Acton, War on the Rocks The Looming China-Japan Face-off Chris Patten, Project Syndicate The China Project Media Shuts, Blaming ‘Politically Motivated Attacks’ Erin Hale, Al Jazeera The U.S. Is Quietly Arming Taiwan to the Teeth Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC