May 17, 2023 As China Looms Over Taiwan’s Presidential Race, the Opposition Picks a Moderate John Liu and Paul Mozur, The New York Times Can China Thread the Needle on Ukraine? Bonny Lin, Foreign Affairs China Calls on Netherlands to ‘Adhere to Strategic Autonomy’, as U.S. Restrictions Weigh on Trade Ji Siqi, South China Morning Post South Korea Gets Tough on Tech Leaks to China Christian Davies and Song Jung-a, Financial Times People vs Platforms: U.S.-Taiwan Security Cooperation in the Near Future Eric Chan, Global Taiwan Institute Ex-Apple Engineer Indicted in Crackdown on Flow of Restricted Tech to China, Russia Sadie Gurman and Dylan Tokar, The Wall Street Journal Korea Eyes Submarine Deal With Canada Nam Hyun-woo, The Korea Times What is Driving the Adoption of Chinese Surveillance Technology in Africa? Bulelani Jili, DFR Lab Mekong Squeeze Tests China’s Good Neighbor Narrative Denny Roy, Asia Times No Joke: China Fines a Comedy Firm $2 Million for ‘Insulting’ the Military Chang Che and Olivia Wang, The New York Times
May 16, 2023 With Eye on Ukraine, Top Chinese General Calls for Unconventional Warfare Capabilities Ryan Woo, Reuters Ex-ByteDance Employee Claims China Had ‘Supreme Access’ to All Data Laura He and Ramishah Maruf, CNN Chinese Warships Circle Japan Ahead of G-7 Summit Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News U.S. to Sign Pacts With Micronesia and PNG as Washington Seeks to Counter China in Pacific Reuters Germany Urges China to Shut Secret Police Outposts in Berlin Michael Nienaber, Bloomberg China sanctions Britons Over West's Xinjiang Criticism Jill Lawless and Pan Pylas, Associated Press Books Removed From Hong Kong Public Libraries Still Accessible in Shops, Says Chief Executive John Lee Candice Chau, Hong Kong Free Press China Censors Citizens From Discussing Pakistan Protest. Political Revolt Is a Sensitive Topic Aadil Brar, The Print Philippines Warns of ‘Serious Repercussions’ if China Removes Navigational Buoys BenarNews PLA Reveals U.S.-China Military Encounter off Hong Kong Day Before January 6 Capitol Riot Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post China’s Navy: Ships & Aircraft of the PRC, 1955–2021 Admiralty Trilogy Group Liz Truss Calls for Deeds, Not Words, From West on China Ahead of Taiwan Visit Andrew McDonald, Politico Consultancy Firms in China Tested Limits Before Beijing's Crackdown Engen Tham and James Pomfret, Reuters
May 15, 2023 China Kidnaps Southern Mongolian Dissident in Mongolia Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken Expresses Concern Over China Forcefully Gathering DNA From Tibetans in Tibet Organiser China’s War Chest: Beijing’s ‘Great Wall of Steel’ Faces Obstacles to Military Supremacy Amy Hawkins, The Guardian After 20 Years in U.K., British Chair Professor Joins China’s Hypersonic Program Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post Philippines Places Buoys in Parts of South China Sea to Assert Sovereignty Reuters China's Rising Clout Spotlighted at Finance Chief Meetings Before G7 Summit Tetsushi Kajimoto, Reuters Advisory Firms on Alert After China Raids and Arrests, as Experts Say Data Crackdown Will Hinder International Investment Hong Kong Free Press Guest Nations at the G-7 Reflect Outreach to Developing Countries, Worries Over China, Russia Hyung-jin Kim and Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press PLA Drone Flights Aimed at Mapping Routes: Experts CNA U.S. Eyes Access to Papua New Guinea Naval Base and Airport Ryo Nakamura And Rurika Imahashi, Nikkei Hongkongers Find New Ways to Defend Democratic Ideals AFP China, Russia Are Increasing Military Cooperation: Japan Associated Press Who Should the KMT Pick as Their Taiwan Presidential Candidate? Courtney Donovan Smith, Taiwan News Taiwanese Buys Anti-CCP Book, Gets Scam Call From Chinese Propagandist Stephanie Chiang, Taiwan News
May 12, 2023 Why I Am Giving Up Writing About Hong Kong Politics Tim Hamlett, Hong Kong Free Press Another Chinese Drone Partially Circles Taiwan as 13 Aircraft Breach ADIZ Sean Lin, CNA China Has Been on a Charm Offensive. Now It Is Committing Dollars to a Reset Eryk Bagshaw, The Sydney Morning Herald Dwight Howard: Former NBA Player Apologizes After Angering China Over Taiwan Reference Fan Wang, BBC News Why the U.S. Delayed China Sanctions After Shooting Down a Spy Balloon Michael Martina, Reuters Collapsing Buildings, Incoming Missiles: Taiwan Rehearses a Chinese Assault on Its Cities Helen Davidson and Chi Hui Lin, The Guardian The Plot to Steal the Other Secret Inside a Can of Coca-Cola Drake Bennett and Jordan Robertson, Bloomberg Germany Warns EU on Hitting China With Russia Sanctions: Sources Gabriela Baczynska, Reuters Royal Philips to Pay $62 Million to Settle China Bribery Probe Dylan Tokar, The Wall Street Journal China Has Interfered for Decades But Every Government Ignored It, Ex-CSIS Agent Tells MPs Ryan Tumilty, National Post Confronting China’s War on Religion Part IV: The Catholic Church Eric Felten and Carl M. Cannon, RealClearWire Analysis: China’s Messaging Machine Tamps Down Taiwan War Hype Katsuji Nakazawa, Nikkei Exclusive: Biden to Sign Defence Pact in Papua New Guinea, With Eyes on China Kirsty Needham, Reuters
May 11, 2023 Korean NGO Says Chinese Officials Visited Office After They Awarded Rights Prize to Detained Hong Kong Tiananmen Activist Peter Lee, Hong Kong Free Press Remarks About Blowing Up TSMC ‘Selectively Clipped’: U.S. Rep. Moulton Shih Hsiu-chuan and Teng Pei-ju, CNA Pacific Fleet Leader Asks to Go Before China Committee to Talk Taiwan Bryant Harris, Defense News Biden's Stopover in PNG Derided as ‘Muscle Flexing’ Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Journalist ASEAN Navies Approve Maritime Interaction Guidelines Joviland Rita, GMA Integrated News Volkswagen Investors Demand Independent Audit of China Car Plant Patricia Nilsson, Financial Times Son of Jailed Hong Kong Media Tycoon Condemns U.K. Government ‘Weakness’ Reuters China Keeps Up Campaign to Pressure Critics Abroad Despite Western Backlash Matt Spetalnick, David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina, Reuters Taiwan Is Urging the U.S. Not to Abandon Ukraine Josh Rogin, The Washington Post Automation Giant Faces U.S. Government Probe Over China Operations Vivian Salama, The Wall Street Journal U.S. Accounting Regulator Finds ‘Unacceptable Rate’ of Shortcomings in Mainland China Audits Chad Bray, South China Morning Post Hong Kong Mulls Wider Ban on Insults to Regional Flag, Making Online Desecration Illegal Kelly Ho, Hong Kong Free Press
May 10, 2023 World War III: Could America Stop China From Invading Taiwan? Brandon Weichert, 19FortyFive How China’s Echo Chamber Threatens Taiwan Tong Zhao, Foreign Affairs China: Growing and Going to Sea James E. Fanell, U.S. Naval Institute U.S. Eyes Mideast-India Transport Network to Counter China Yukihiro Sakaguchi, Nikkei China ‘Furious’ With Patriot PAC-3 Missile Deployment Near Its Border; Analyst Says Another Attempt To Interfere In Taiwan Sakshi Tiwari, The Eurasian Times China Hones its Global South Diplomacy Joseph Rozen, Asia Times Amid Human Trafficking Horrors, China’s Claims of Gender Equality Ring Hollow Leslie Fu, The Diplomat Situation of Tibetan Women in Tibet Raised at U.N. Meeting Ahead of China Review Central Tibetan Administration China, Beware of the New Anti-Espionage Law Hu Zimo, Bitter Winter Making the South Korea-Japan Rapprochement Last Robert Kelly, 19FortyFive Berlin to Increase Pressure on China After Cancelled Beijing Talks Jonathan Packroff, EURACTIV Hong Kong 47: Anonymous Witness Grilled at National Security Trial Over ‘Secretly Recorded’ Footage Kelly Ho, Hong Kong Free Press Chinese Spaceplane Docked With Another Object Multiple Times, Data Indicates Joseph Trevithick, The War Zone ‘Everybody Is Worried’: China Raids Offices of Consultancy Firm Capvision in Widening Industry Crackdown Nectar Gan and Juliana Liu, CNN Biden Hopes for Vietnam Breakthrough Derek Grossman, Foreign Policy Biden to Become First Sitting U.S. President to Travel to Papua New Guinea Betsy Klein, CNN U.N. Rules Useless Against China’s Forced Labor, Research Shows Stuart Lau, Politico
May 9, 2023 Hong Kong Schools in Crisis as Teachers and Students Flee ‘Toxic’ Political Climate Verna Yu, The Guardian Canada Expels China Diplomat for Alleged Threats to Lawmaker Rob Gillies, Associated Press More Canadian Universities Now Say They’ll Steer Clear of Chinese Telecom Huawei Joanna Chiu, Toronto Star Hong Kong Asked Google to Remove 183 Items in Latter Half of 2022, National Security Takedown Requests Surged Hong Kong Free Press Japan, South Korea to Link Radar Systems to Track North Korea Missiles Yoshifumi Takemoto and Kaori Kaneko, Reuters China Attempts to Snoop on ASEAN-India Naval Drill in South China Sea The Times of India Jokowi: Aim Is to Make ASEAN Region Stable New Straits Times How Top Silicon Valley Investor Sequoia Bankrolls China’s Tech Danny Fortson, The Times of London China Tells U.S. to ‘Reflect Deeply’ Over Downturn in Ties Associated Press Taiwan Needs Business Help to Harden Its Economy Against China Elisabeth Braw, Foreign Policy The Long Road to Confronting China’s War on Religion: Part III Ethan Gutmann, RealClearWire China Races Ahead of U.S. on AI Regulation Ryan Heath, Axios Internationally Acclaimed Tibetan Filmmaker No More TibetanReview.net China Raids Offices of Another Consulting Firm in Espionage Crackdown David Pierson and Daisuke Wakabayashi, The New York Times The U.S. Is Investigating Shein Over Alleged Ties to Forced Labor in China Diego Lasarte, Quartz
May 8, 2023 China Is Making Its Move in Ukraine, and the U.S. Has No Chance of Matching It John Lyons, ABC News (Australia) Joint Patrols in South China Sea to Begin ‘Very Soon’: Envoy ABS-CBN News Brussels Plans to Slap Sanctions on Chinese Companies Aiding Russia’s War Machine: Financial Times Jyoti Narayan in Bengaluru, Reuters Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Could Cost World Economy $1 Trillion: U.S. Intelligence ANI News Doval in Saudi to Discuss U.S. Rail Link Plan for West Asia Shubhajit Roy, The Indian Express Japan PM in South Korea Says ‘Heart Hurts’ Over Occupation Choonsik Yoo, Hyonhee Shin and Sakura Murakami, Reuters The Forces Behind South Korea’s and Japan’s Thaw Choe Sang-hun, The New York Times Hong Kong Ex-Official Compares District Councilors to Migrant Domestic Workers, Says They Could Be Fired if Disobedient Candice Chau, Hong Kong Free Press U.S. Think Tank Reports Prompted Beijing to Put a Lid on Chinese Data Lingling Wei, The Wall Street Journal U.S. Prepares to Fast Track $500 Million of Arms for Taiwan Peter Martin and Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg In New Battle for the Pacific, U.S. and China Force Regional States to Take Sides Simon Tisdall, The Guardian As U.S.-China Rivalry Boils, Manila Should Play Its Cards Well Lucio B Pitlo III, Asia Times ‘They Said They Could Make Me Straight’: Hongkonger Recalls ‘Brainwashing’ by Group With Gov’t Funding From ‘Equality’ Scheme Hillary Leung, Hong Kong Free Press
May 5, 2023 Canada Mulls Expelling China Diplomat for Targeting Lawmaker Rob Gillies, Associated Press Study: China’s Squid Fleet Avoids Peru to Dodge New Port Law Joshua Goodman, Associated Press Why Some of China’s Most Successful Companies Are Desperate to Hide Their Roots Michelle Toh, CNN China’s Economic Coercion Hits a Chip Wall in S. Korea Dominic Simonelli, David Hundt and Baogang He, East Asia Forum Press Group: China Biggest Global Jailer of Journalists Associated Press Australia’s Exports to China Hit Record High as Relations Thaw Laura He, CNN Hong Kong National Security Police Seize Tiananmen Crackdown Statue for ‘Inciting Subversion’ Probe: Reports Peter Lee, Hong Kong Free Press China Says South China Sea Should Not Be ‘Hunting Ground’ for Foreign Forces Reuters Taiwan Military to Receive Sky Sword II Mobile Missile Launchers Next Week Kelvin Chen, Taiwan News Why China’s Delegate to King Charles’ Coronation Is Causing Controversy Chad de Guzman, Time China-U.S. Fight for Influence Runs Through Police in Pacific Mike Cherney and Austin Ramzy, The Wall Street Journal Marcos Says Philippines Bases Could Be ‘Useful’ if Taiwan Attacked David Brunnstrom, Reuters Hong Kong Ice Hockey Body Slams Sports Federation’s ‘Unjustified’ Allegations Over Anthem Blunder Peter Lee, Hong Kong Free Press China’s Club for Talking to Central Europe Is Dead, Czechs Say Stuart Lau, Politico
May 4, 2023 Imprisoned Hong Kong Activist Wins Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Jung Min-ho, The Korea Times China Flags Uighurs as ‘Extremist’ for Having Quran, Report Says Erin Hale, Al Jazeera U.S., Philippines Vow Joint Defense ‘Anywhere in the South China Sea’ Bryant Harris, Defense News FACT SHEET: U.S.-Philippines Bilateral Defense Guidelines U.S. Department of Defense Hong Kong Gov’t Slams Self-Exiled Democrat Ted Hui for Calling Reformed District Council Polls ‘Pseudo-Election’ Hillary Leung, Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong 47: Ex-District Council Chief Begins Testimony Aagainst Fellow Democrats in National Security Trial Kelly Ho, Hong Kong Free Press University of Waterloo Ends Research Partnerships With Huawei, Amid Security Concerns Over China Joanna Chiu, Toronto Star Multinationals Add China-Taiwan Risk Clauses to Contracts as Tensions Rise Echo Wong and Pak Yiu, Nikkei Taiwan’s Spy Chief Says ‘Five Eyes’ Helping to Grasp Xi’s Motives Jenny Leonard and Debby Wu, Bloomberg Taiwan Trade Chief Warns Against ‘Unnecessary Fear’ of China Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press U.K. Foreign Minister’s China Speech Lacks Details on Rights Maya Wang, The Diplomat Coal Power Is No Cure for Guangdong Zhang Xiaoli, China Dialogue Senate’s China Bill to Restrict Advanced Tech Exports, Bolster Allies Bryant Harris, Defense News First of its Kind Submarine Visit Forges Relationship Lt. Eric Uhden, Commander, Submarine Squadron 15 Public Affairs China Sends Drones Circling Taiwan in New Surveillance Tactic Kari Soo Lindberg and Cindy Wang, Bloomberg U.S. Lawmakers Query Nike, Adidas Over Forced Labor in China Bloomberg
May 3, 2023 China’s COVID Whistleblower in Wuhan Reportedly Freed After Three Years Helen Davidson, The Guardian Hong Kong’s John Lee Chides Reporter for Referring to 2019 ‘Protests’ Instead of ‘the Black Violence’ Tom Grundy, Hong Kong Free Press Taiwan Ranked 35th in 2023 RSF Press Freedom Index Teng Pei-ju, CNA Hong Kong Ranks 140th on 2023 Int’l RSF Press Freedom Index Below Colombia, Cameroon Candice Chau, Hong Kong Free Press F-16V Deliveries to Taiwan Postponed Until Late 2024 Matthew Strong, Taiwan News China Restricts Overseas Access to Key Corporate Information Bloomberg Don’t Bother Investing in China Unless You’re Chinese Shuli Ren, Bloomberg U.S. Defense Industry Ready to Help Taiwan’s Self-Defense: Ex-Officer Joseph Yeh, CNA Arms Control for Artificial Intelligence Megan Lamberth and Paul Scharre, Texas National Security Review U.S. Lawmakers Query Nike, Adidas Over Forced Labor in China Jarrell Dillard, Bloomberg A Downed U.S. Jet, a Bombed Embassy, and 25 Years of Rumors About How China Built Its First Stealth Fighter Michael Peck, Insider U.S. Navy Is Hobbled by Failures as the Risk of Conflict With China Looms Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg U.S. Orders MQ-9B SkyGuardian Drones for Taiwan Joe Saballa, The Defense Post Marcos, Back in Arms of U.S., Is Making His Own Name in Foreign Policy Sui-lee Wee, The New York Times
May 2, 2023 Democratically Elected Seats to Be Slashed to 20% for Local Hong Kong Elections, Candidates Vetted Peter Lee, Hong Kong Free Press Is America Postured for a Fight in the Indo-Pacific? Dustin Walker, Defense News China’s Answers to ChatGPT Have a Censorship Problem Sarah Zheng, Bloomberg Blocking Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai’s Overseas Counsel in National Security Trial Is ‘Persecution,’ Says Lawyer Candice Chau, Hong Kong Free Press Shrinking U.S. Military Capacity Now for Capabilities Later Is a Mistake Mackenzie Eaglen, 19FortyFive Shein: China Fashion Giant Faces U.S. Calls for Probe Over Uyghur Claims Mariko Oi, BBC China Steps Up Use of Exit Bans Under Xi: Rights Group AFP Bolton Lauds Expanding U.S.-Taiwan Relations Liu Tzu-hsuan, Taipei Times Tibet’s Exiled Government Pushes China on Sovereignty Claims in Bid for Leverage Mure Dickie, Financial Times Xi Jinping’s Worst Nightmare: A Potemkin People’s Liberation Army Andrew Scobell, War on the Rocks Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Chinese Military Blimp Caught on Satellite Images of Remote Desert Base Paul P. Murphy and Alex Marquardt, CNN Philippines Won’t Be Military Staging Post — Marcos Alexis Romero, The Philippine Star Singapore Backs AUKUS and Says Australia Could Play ‘Bigger Role’ in Regional Security Daniel Hurst, The Guardian PCG: China Should Rethink Behavior, Presence of Journalists in Maritime Patrols May Continue CNN Philippines Philippine Coast Guard Cutters, Chinese Warship Almost Collide in South China Sea Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News U.S. ‘Ready’ to Aid Philippine Resupplies in South China Sea: Admiral Ryo Nakamura, Nikkei Is China’s Korla Laser ASAT Site Hacking Western Satellites? Andrew Salerno-Garthwaite, Army Technology