February 23, 2026 Trump Looks Ahead to Summit With China’s Xi, but Tariffs and Taiwan Loom Chris Buckley, The New York Times ‘China Is Falling Across the Board’: How the U.S. Is Moving Away From Chinese Imports Doug Palmer and Paroma Soni, Politico Court Rejects Appeals of All Twelve Activists in Landmark ‘Hong Kong 47’ National Security Case Hans Tse, Hong Kong Free Press China Overtakes U.S. as Germany’s Top Trading Partner Lisa O’Carroll, The Guardian After Trump Tariff Ruling, KMT Calls to Renegotiate U.S. Trade Deal Liu Kuan-ting and Matthew Mazzetta, CNA South Korea Rejects Trilateral Drills, Protests U.S. After Standoff Yang Ji-ho, The Chosun Daily U.S. Intelligence Agencies Tie Chinese Explosive Test to Push for a Completely New Nuclear Arsenal Zachary Cohen and Kylie Atwood, CNN What Is Behind Trump’s Truce With China? Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times How Do You Steal an Airplane? One Piece at a Time Jordan Robertson, Victor Yvellez and Drake Bennett, Bloomberg
February 13, 2026 China’s Zhipu Unveils New AI Model, Jolting Race With DeepSeek Zheping Huang, Bloomberg A Year on From DeepSeek Shock, Get Set for Flurry of Low-Cost Chinese AI Models Eduardo Baptista, Reuters First Chinese Type 09V Nuclear Powered Attack Submarine Appears at Bohai Alex Luck, Naval News CIA Releases New Video in Bid to Lure Chinese Military Officers to Spy for Us Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times Palo Alto Chose Not to Tie China to Hacking Campaign for Fear of Retaliation From Beijing, Sources Say Raphael Satter and A.J. Vicens, Reuters Japan Seizes Chinese Fishing Boat off Nagasaki, Arrests Skipper Kyodo News Targeting Taiwan Under Xi: China’s Military Forest Flourishing Despite Toppling Trees Andrew S. Erickson, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
February 12, 2026 State Department Identifies Code Pink and Other Far-Left Groups as Vectors of Chinese Influence Operations Victor Nava, New York Post Harnessing the People: Mapping Overseas United Front Work in Democratic States The Jamestown Foundation Why Are People ‘Becoming Chinese’ on Social Media? Yan Zhuang, The New York Times NSA Pick Warns of China Pursuing AI Chips for Weapons Morgan Chalfant, Semafor China’s Xi Makes Rare Public Reference to Recent Military Purges Reuters China Bars Philippine Local Officials Over Kalayaan Resolutions Gabryelle Dumalag, Philippine Daily Inquirer A Italy-Based Legal Body Is Opening in Hong Kong — and Beijing Is Calling the Shots Giulia Pompili, Il Foglio The Church’s Silence on China’s Egregious Violations of Religious Freedom Benedict Rogers, Catholic Outlook
February 11, 2026 Hong Kong Convicts a Political Exile’s Father, a First for the City David Pierson, The New York Times ‘Wake-Up Call’ for Greece as Air Force Officer Accused of Spying for China Helena Smith, The Guardian U.S. House Passes Bill to Limit China’s Access to Finance if Taiwan Threatened James Thompson and Chung Yu-chen, CNA TSMC Approves $44.96 Billion Budget Amid AI Boom Chang Chien-chung and Shih Hsiu-chuan, CNA President Calls for Immediate Release of Jimmy Lai Sean Lin, CNA China’s AI Industry Looks Unstoppable in the Race to Best U.S. Rivals. But Is It? John Liu, CNN Code Red: Is the Future of American AI Being Built in Beijing? Ryan Fedasiuk, American Enterprise Institute
February 10, 2026 Trump-Xi Summit Set for First Week of April Phelim Kine, Megan Messerly, Politico China Steps Up Dangerous Air Encounters Near Taiwan Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times China Sends Fewer Flights Near Taiwan in Sign of Training Shift Bloomberg Jimmy Lai’s Sentence Sparks International Concern AFP State Department Defends Position of AIT Director William Hetherington, Taipei Times Time for U.S. to Act on Taiwan Defense Budget Michael Turton, Taipei Times In a World Full of Trouble, the U.S.-Japan Relationship Is Still Doing Well Jim Geraghty, National Review PLA Tremors and the Chairman in Charge Holly Snape, Sinocism The U.S. Navy’s New Insurance Policy for War With China Is an Australian Base Mike Cherney, The Wall Street Journal
February 9, 2026 Hong Kong Court Jails Media Tycoon and British Citizen Jimmy Lai for 20 Years BBC National Security Judges Cite ‘Extensive Roles’ as Six Ex-Apple Daily Staffers Jailed for up to 10 Years Hillary Leung, Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong Press Groups Silent on Jailing of Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai Tom Grundy, Hong Kong Free Press Japan’s Leader Wins in a Landslide, Clearing Way for Hard-Line Agenda Javier C. Hernández, River Akira Davis, Kiuko Notoya and Hisako Ueno, The New York Times China Warns U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan Could Threaten Trump Visit in April Demetri Sevastopulo and Kathrin Hille, Financial Times ‘Playing With Fire’: Taiwan Defense Spending Battle Rattles China Hawks Filip Timotija, The Hill
February 6, 2026 Xi Held ‘Rare’ Back-to-Back Calls With Putin and Trump AFP Trump and Xi Talk Taiwan at Dicey Time for Taipei’s Defense Spending Thompson Chau and James Hand-Cukierman, Nikkei Asia HP, Dell, Acer and Asus Mull Using Chinese Memory Chips Amid Supply Crunch Lauly Li and Cheng Ting-fang, Nikkei Asia Hong Kong Federation of Students to Disband After 68 Years, Citing ‘Increasing Pressure’ Irene Chan, Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong Activist’s Taipei Boxing Studio Vandalized Again With Red Paint Li Ya-wen, Huang Li-yun and C.C. Li, CNA Two Chinese Nationals Suspected of Spying From French Airbnb Under Investigation Reuters Rare Earths Customers in Rush to Find Alternatives to Chinese Suppliers Camilla Hodgson, Financial Times
February 5, 2026 China’s Xi Reasserts Taiwan Stance in Call With Trump, While U.S. President Pushes Trade Anniek Bao, CNBC Relations With U.S. ‘Rock Solid,’ President Lai Says After Trump-Xi Call Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard, Reuters Chinese National Who Exposed Rights Abuses Is Freed From U.S. Detention After Being Granted Asylum Didi Tang, The Associated Press TSMC to Make Advanced 3-Nanometer Chips in Japan Chang Chien-chung and Matthew Mazzetta, CNA Nvidia AI Chip Sales to China Stalled by U.S. Security Review Reuters Lithuanian Prime Minister Says Vilnius ‘Jumped in Front of a Train’ With Taiwanese Office Saulius Jakučionis, Vilmantas Venckūnas, BNS U.S. Army Quietly Stands Up Rotational Force in the Philippines Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, USNI News Rights Group Criticizes Detention of Chinese Journalists After Graft Report Reuters China Bankrolling Putin’s War to Gain Advantage Over West, MPs Told Tom Cotterill, The Telegraph China and Spain in Talks for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to Visit Beijing — Again Xiaofei Xu, South China Morning Post
February 4, 2026 China’s Disappearing Generals Amy Chang Chien, Agnes Chang and Chris Buckley, The New York Times More Information Links Zhang Youxia’s Purge to 2027 Preparations K. Tristan Tang, The Jamestown Foundation Chinese Journalist Liu Hu Detained in Sichuan After Report Scrutinizing Local Officials Yuanyue Dang, South China Morning Post A Former Chinese Inmate on the Risks of ‘Middle Powers’ Turning to Beijing Andy Browne, Semafor Taiwan Doubles Down on U.S. Partnership, Even as America’s Alliances Fray Joyu Wang, The Wall Street Journal Beijing Criticises Dalai Lama Grammy Win as ‘Manipulation’ Doug Faulkner, BBC
February 3, 2026 Taiwan’s Lai Calls Delays to Special Defense Budget ‘Dangerous’ Yian Lee, Bloomberg Taiwan Must Look to Democracies, Not China, for Trade Cooperation, President Says Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard, Reuters U.S. and Taiwan Establish Joint Firepower Command for 2027 Invasion Scenario Ryoo Jae-min and Kim Eun-joong, The Chosun Daily Nvidia to Expand Taiwan Presence Amid Supply Chain Growth: CEO Jeffrey Wu and Ko Lin, CNA Hong Kong Tiananmen Vigil Activists Persisted With Calls for Democracy Despite Beijing’s Warning, Court Hears Hans Tse, Hong Kong Free Press ‘I’m Free’: A Muslim Official Who Lost Faith in China Gains a Voice Li Yuan, The New York Times Xi the Destroyer Jonathan A. Czin and John Culver, Foreign Affairs
February 2, 2026 Nvidia’s Huang Pushes Suppliers on Taiwan Visit Ben Blanchard, Reuters Taiwan Economic Growth Hits 8.63% in 2025, Highest in 15 Years Pan Tzu-yu and Lee Hsin-Yi, CNA Xi Jinping Calls for China’s Renminbi to Attain Global Reserve Currency Status Financial Times Japan Can’t Go It Alone Dan Blumenthal, Mike Kuiken and Randy Schriver, Foreign Affairs How Starmer’s ‘Weak and Meek’ State Visit Performance Emboldened China Sabrina Miller, The Telegraph China Accused of Erasing Mongolian Language and Culture Online, New Study Finds France 24 Ai Weiwei Says West Lacks Moral Authority to Criticize Beijing on Rights Catarina Demony and Gerhard Mey, Reuters China Fails to Curb the ‘Secret Filming Betrayal’ of Women and Girls Lily Kuo and Pei-Lin Wu, The New York Times
January 30, 2026 U.S. Keeps Taiwan on Currency Manipulation Monitoring List Taipei Times U.K.’s Starmer Joins Ranks of U.S. Allies Testing China’s Embrace Austin Ramzy and Max Colchester, The Wall Street Journal Burner Phones and Lead-Lined Bags: A History of U.K. Security Tactics in China Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian Xi’s Military Purge May Set Back His Taiwan Ambitions Chris Buckley, The New York Times U.S. Calls Taiwan ‘Vital Partner’ After High-Level Tech and AI Talks Ben Blanchard and David Lawder, Reuters Chinese Warships Sail Near Okinawa After U.S.-Philippine Drills in South China Sea Alex Wilson and Hana Kusumoto, Stars and Stripes Taiwan Government Eyes Tougher Penalties for Online Defamation Jonathan Chin and Hollie Younger, Taipei Times