August 29, 2023 Why Hanoi May Agree to a Vietnam-U.S. Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Le Hong Hiep, Fulcrum Philippines, Aussie Joint Maritime Patrols in South China Sea Approved Michael Punongbayan, The Philippine Star Joint Exercises With China Look Murky Amid Territorial Tensions — Brawner Jean Mangaluz, Philippine Daily Inquirer Philippine Coast Guard Drills With U.S., Japan on Ship Maintenance Yuichi Shiga, Nikkei Laser and Water Cannon Diplomacy in the South China Sea Modern Diplomacy ‘Xizang’: China Insists on Depriving Tibet of Its Name Lopsang Gurung, Bitter Winter China’s Cartographic Manipulation of Tibet is ‘Colonialism of Perception’ Vijay Kranti, Central Tibetan Administration Increasingly Authoritarian Central America Just Snubbed Taiwan in Favor of China Arturo Mcfields, The Hill BRICS: A China-Led Group Looking for Relevance Thiago de Aragao, The Diplomat Pentagon Unveils ‘Replicator’ Drone Program to Compete With China Noah Robertson, Defense News China Says Its Ban on Japanese Seafood Is About Safety. Is It Really? Kathleen Magramo and Michelle Toh, CNN Q&A: Japan’s Release of Treated Fukushima Wastewater Huang Ming-hsi and Bernadette Hsiao, CNA
August 28, 2023 Notes From Central Taiwan: The Chiang Ching-kuo Legacy and Taiwan’s Next Election Michael Turton, Taipei Times Terry Gou Jumps Into 2024 Presidential Race as Independent Candidate Chung Yu-chen, CNA The Real Contest With China Michael Brown and Robert Atkinson, Foreign Affairs China’s Xi Doubles Down on Hardline Xinjiang Policy Stuart Lau, Politico U.S., Australia, Japan Drill With the Philippines in South China Sea; China Flies Military Drone Near Taiwan Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News U.S. Sanctions China Officials Over Tibetan Assimilation Policies Nolan Zhu, Jurist Biden’s Course for U.S. on Trade Breaks With Clinton and Obama David J. Lynch, The Washington Post Huawei Agrees Long-Term Patent Deal With Ericsson Despite Western Curbs Eri Sugiura, Financial Times
August 25, 2023 China Bans Japanese Seafood as Nuclear Wastewater Released Shoko Oda, Bloomberg Thirteen China Plants Released More Tritium in 2021 Than Fukushima Annual Total Plan NHK It Aims to Challenge the West and Could Rival the G7. What Is BRICS? Lucy Cormack, The Sydney Morning Herald BRICS Shows It’s Little More Than a Meaningless Acronym Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg ‘There Is No Worse to Come With the KMT, It Is Already Falling Apart Now’ Courtney Donovan Smith, Taiwan News KMT Presidential Candidate Hou to Make Eight-Day Trip to U.S. in September Chung Yu-chen, CNA U.S. Seeks Short-Term Extension to Science and Tech Agreement With China Alison Snyder, Axios China Quietly Recruits Overseas Chip Talent as U.S. Tightens Curbs Julie Zhu, Fanny Potkin, Eduardo Baptista and Michael Martina, Reuters China’s COVID Zero Exit Led to 1.9 Million Deaths in Two Months, Study Finds Michelle Fay Cortez, Bloomberg German Guarantees for China Investments Plummet: Document Andreas Rinke, Reuters U.S. Denies Reports Claiming It Considered Canceling F-16 Sale to Taiwan Chiang Chin-yeh, Christie Chen, Joseph Yen and Frances Huang, CNA The AIIB’s Former Communications Chief on Why He Blew the Whistle The Economist
August 24, 2023 Taiwan Proposes $3 Billion Spending on New Weapons, Gets F-16 Boost Ben Blanchard and Faith Hung, Reuters China Tries to Increase Its Clout in Africa Amid Rivalry With the U.S. David Pierson and Lynsey Chutel, The New York Times Biden’s Asia Diplomacy Is Still Incomplete Zack Cooper, War on the Rocks Biden Resists Pressure From Lawmakers and Seeks Short Extension to Key China Science Pact Jennifer Jett and Abigail Williams, NBC News The Fukushima Nuclear Plant Begins Releasing Treated Radioactive Wastewater Into the Sea Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press Beijing Allegedly Tried to Run Candidate Against Popular Canadian Mayor Sam Cooper The Bureau Man Flees China by Riding Jet Ski Hundreds of Miles Across the Sea Stella Kim and Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News Growing Tension With China Requires More Surveillance off the Philippines, Report Finds John Grady, USNI News Mapping China’s Strategic Space National Bureau of Asian Research In U.S.-China Trade War, Bystander Countries Increase Exports Michael Totty, UCLA Anderson Review
August 23, 2023 U.S. Hits China on ‘Forced Assimilation’ of Tibetan Children Shaun Tandon, AFP Brothers of Wanted Self-Exiled Activist Anna Kwok Questioned by Hong Kong National Security Police — Reports James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press Huawei Is Building a Secret Network for Chips, Trade Group Warns Ian King and Debby Wu, Bloomberg In Wuhan, Doctors Knew the Truth. They Were Told to Keep Quiet The Washington Post Editorial Board These Technologies Could Defeat China’s Missile Barrage and Defend Taiwan: Analysis Jim Mitre and Ylber Bajraktari, Breaking Defense To Chinese Diaspora in New Zealand, China Feeds Talking Points, Mutes Critics Jane Tang, Asia Fact Check Lab China’s Crisis Should Be a Turning Point for the West’s Policy of Indulgence Paul Mason, The New European ‘I Had to Do Something, Even if It Didn’t Change Anything’ Yitong Wu and Chingman, Radio Free Asia ‘Sharpening My Sword’: One of Hong Kong’s Most-Wanted Can Now Practice Law in Australia Latika Bourke, WAtoday On a China-Built Train From Mombasa to Nairobi Javier M. Piedra, Asia Times
August 22, 2023 Hong Kong Student Convicted Under National Security Law Loses Appeal Against Five-Year Sentence at Top Court Hillary Leung, Hong Kong Free Press China Coast Guard, Militia Seen to Block New Philippines Resupply Mission GMA Integrated News Uncertainty Remains in Pacific as Japan Due to Make Fukushima Decision Lydia Lewis, Radio New Zealand China Hoped Fiji Would Be a Template for the Pacific. Its Plan Backfired Michael E. Miller and Matthew Abbott, The Washington Post Papua New Guinea’s Marape: Pacific Power Broker or Prime Minister in Peril? Rurika Imahashi, Nikkei China Infiltrating U.S. ‘Red Zone’ With Latin American Push Jeff Seldin, Voice of America Has the U.S. Campaign Against Uyghur Forced Labor Been Successful? Lili Pike, Foreign Policy Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States Lennart Meri Lecture 2023 by Fiona Hill
August 21, 2021 Logistics Interdiction for Taiwan Unification Campaigns Jacob Maywald, Benjamin Hazen, Edward Salo and Michael Hugos, War on the Rocks Sister-in-Law of Self-Exiled Activist Nathan Law Questioned by Hong Kong National Security Police: Reports James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press DPP’s Lai Continues to Lead Taiwan Presidential Race After Overseas Trip Jono Thomson, Taiwan News In Tanzania, Beijing Is Running a Training School for Authoritarianism Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Axios China Helping to Arm Russia With Helicopters, Drones and Metals Sophia Yan, The Telegraph India Doubles Down on Regional Connectivity to Counter China Henry Storey, The Interpreter Vietnam Said to Plan Military Buildup on South China Sea Footholds Yuichi Shiga and Yuji Nitta, Nikkei Taiwan Accuses China of Election Interference With Trade Probe Lee Ya-wen, Shih Hsiu-chuan and Lee Hsin-Yin, CNA China Is on Edge as Fallout From Its Real Estate Crisis Spreads Daisuke Wakabayashi and Alexandra Stevenson, The New York Times U.S. Imports of Auto Parts Face Scrutiny Under Law on Chinese Forced Labor Reuters
August 19, 2023 China Launches Military Exercises Around Taiwan as U.S. Wraps Up Landmark Summit With South Korea and Japan Irene Nasser and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Beijing Hints at Changing Trade Pact With Taiwan amid Probe Into Tariffs Josephine Ma, South China Morning Post China Deploys Swarm of Satellites to Monitor Military Exercises in Australia Andrew Greene, ABC News Australian Prime Minister Stares Down Anti-AUKUS ‘Appeasers’ Phillip Coorey, Financial Review Biden to Sign Strategic Partnership Deal With Vietnam in Latest Bid to Counter China in the Region Phelim Kine, Politico Chinese Consulates Task Chinese Students in Aggressive Intelligence Ops: Canadian Intelligence Sam Cooper, The Bureau National Security Trial of Hong Kong Media Mogul Jimmy Lai to Be Delayed Again to December Kelly Ho, Hong Kong Free Press The ‘Jokowi Doctrine’: Indonesia’s Vision for International Order Ahmad Rizky M. Umar, The Interpreter Russian, Chinese Warships in East China Sea After Sailing Near Alaska Dzirhan Mahadzir, USNI News Rethinking Who’s Winning the U.S.-China Tech Competition Jon Schmid, Defense News
August 17, 2023 ‘Gangster Tactic’: The True Aim Behind Hong Kong’s Pursuit of Overseas Dissidents Helen Davidson, The Guardian New York City Bans TikTok on Government-Owned Devices Over Security Concerns Kanishka Singh, Reuters U.S., Japan and South Korea to Deepen Security Ties to Deter China Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times Americans Back Tariffs, Military Prep Against China — Reuters/Ipsos Poll Michael Martina and Jason Lange, Reuters Beijing Investing in Network of Global Chinese Naval Bases, Researchers Find John Grady, USNI News Chinese Social Media Filled With Anti-Black Racist Content, Says Watchdog Amy Hawkins, The Guardian Philippines Appoints Outspoken Diplomat as Envoy to China AFP Kalayaan Declares Chinese Envoy Persona Non Grata Celeste Anna Formoso, Daily Tribune (Philippines) Taiwan Field Officer Held Incommunicado in Espionage Case Involving Retired Captain Tsai Meng-yu and Lee Hsin-Yin, CNA
August 16, 2023 Taiwanese Presidential Frontrunner Talks China and Chips: Transcript Cindy Wang and Joel Weber, Bloomberg China Email Hacks Included Accounts of House Member Martin Matishak, The Record China Claims Breakthrough in U.S. Nuke Sub Detection Gabriel Honrada, Asia Times Heeding Beijing’s Call, Law Firms Tone Down China Risks in IPO Applications Reuters Patents Filed by Chinese Companies Reveal Orwellian Surveillance and Human Rights Abuses Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter Without Human Rights Sanctions, the World Is Normalizing China’s Genocide of Uyghurs Omer Kanat, The Diplomat You Go to War With the Industrial Base You Have, Not the Industrial Base You Want John Barrett, War on the Rocks China Is Building a Runway on Its Closest Island Outpost to Vietnam Thomas Newdick, The Warzone China May Be Monitoring Resupply to Sierra Madre — Philippine Coast Guard Evelyn Macairan, OneNews What China Isn’t Telling the World About Its Economy Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni, The New York Times Xi’s Mismanagement Fuels Political Scandals and Exacerbates Economic Woes Willy Wo-Lap Lam, The Jamestown Foundation Time Is Running Out to Ramp Up U.S.-Vietnam Strategic Relationship James Borton, The Washington Times
August 15, 2023 The Vanishing of a Chinese ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomat Terril Yue Jones, Politico U.S.-Philippine Coast Guard Patrols: Time to Provoke the Provocateur James Holmes, 19FortyFive Taiwan Sees No Chinese Military Response to Vice President’s U.S. Trip Yimou Lee, Reuters China’s $138 Billion Shadow Bank Spirals at Terrible Time for Xi Bloomberg U.S. Hedge Funds Stampede Out of China in Q2 Carolina Mandl, Reuters China Reports Big Data Miss in July, Stops Releasing Youth Unemployment Numbers Evelyn Cheng, CNBC London Teaches Beijing a Lesson in Democracy Matthew Brooker, Bloomberg Return to China? Xing Would Rather Die in the Jungle Shawn Yuan, The Economist China Would Consider Attacks on U.S. Railroads, Pipelines if It Invades Taiwan, Easterly Says Jonathan Greig, The Record China Bankrolls Africa Railroad to Cut Australia Iron-Ore Reliance Ken Moriyasu, Nikkei China Goes After South America’s New Treasure: Lithium Part II Sabina Nicholls, Dialogo
August 14, 2023 AP Gets Rare Glimpse of Jailed Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Publisher Jimmy Lai Louise Delmotte, Associated Press $345 Million Military Aid to Taiwan Includes Four MQ-9A Drones: Source Matt Yu and Joseph Yeh, CNA China Country Garden to Suspend Onshore Bond Trading From Monday Reuters Experts Raise Concern Over Volatile Performance of China-Backed Projects in Bangladesh Asian News International Taiwan Vice President Says ‘Don’t Be Afraid’ to Fight Authoritarianism in New York Speech Reuters Sri Lanka’s Sovereign Regulations for Foreign Warships, Research Vessels and Aircraft: SOPs ‘Approved but Being Finalized’ Asiri Fernando, The Morning India Is a Rising Force in Southeast Asia as Region Seeks to Counter China’s Dominance Sumathi Bala, CNBC U.S., Japan to Develop Hypersonic Missile Interceptor — Yomiuri Reuters A DuPont China Deal Reveals Cracks in U.S. National-Security Screening Kate O’Keeffe and Aruna Viswanatha, The Wall Street Journal China Driving Marcos Deeper Into American Arms Richard Javad Heydarian, Asia Times Chinese Surveillance Firm Selling Cameras With ‘Skin Color Analytics’ Adam Xu and Adrianna Zhang, Voice of America