January 15, 2026 Caught Between Superpowers, Canada Seeks a New Path in Beijing Matina Stevis-Gridneff, The New York Times China’s Trade Ultimatum to Canada: Comply or Suffer Carmine Starnino and Michael Kovrig, The Walrus MPs Step Up Calls to Block Chinese Mega-Embassy Brian Wheeler, BBC White House ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Chinese Super-Embassy’s Secret Rooms Cameron Henderson and Dominic Penna, The Telegraph U.S. Navy Sailor Jinchao Wei Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Selling Secrets to China After Being Encouraged by Mother Richard Pollina, New York Post PLA Sorties Around Taiwan: Fewer Aircraft, Higher Threat Ying Yu Lin, The Diplomat The 94-Year-Old Hong Kong Cardinal Fighting for Chinese Freedom Jayson Casper, Christianity Today Workers at Chinese Factory That Produces Labubu Toys Are Being Exploited, Says NGO Amy Hawkins, The Guardian
January 14, 2026 U.S. Blows Up China’s Latin America Ambitions With Maduro Ouster Lingling Wei, The Wall Street Journal How China Reads the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy Sun Chenghao, Brookings Why China Is Suddenly Obsessed With American Poverty Li Yuan, The New York Times Carney Urged to Raise Imprisoned Canadians, Jimmy Lai Case in Meeting With Xi Jinping Marie Woolf, The Globe and Mail Canadian MPs Asked to Leave Taiwan Before Carney’s Beijing Visit Cheng Ai-fen and Matthew Mazzetta, CNA Taiwan People’s Party Chair Says Party Will Propose Revised Special Defense Budget Kuo Chien-shen and Matthew Mazzetta, CNA Taiwan Spotlights Invasion Defense Lines During Chinese Drills Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, Naval News Hong Kong Court to Hand Down Sentences in Jimmy Lai National Security Trial ‘As Soon as Practicable’ James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press African Growth and Opportunity Act Extension Passes U.S. House David Thomas, African Business
January 13, 2026 TSMC Plans U.S. Expansion in Proposed Taiwan Tariff-Relief Deal Robbie Whelan and Amrith Ramkumar, The Wall Street Journal TPP Chair Holds Meetings With National Security Council, American Institute in Taiwan Officials in Washington Chung Yu-chen and Matthew Mazzetta, CNA Xinjiang Whistleblower Faces Deportation to China — Lawyer Andrew Zi-Qi Fang, Deutsche Welle Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai in ‘Advanced Years’ With Multiple Health Problems, Lawyer Says in Mitigation Hillary Leung, Hong Kong Free Press Uncovered: Secret Room Beneath Chinese Embassy That Poses Threat to City Gareth Corfield, The Telegraph China Pressing European Countries to Bar Taiwan Politicians or Face Crossing a ‘Red Line’ Helen Davidson, The Guardian Taiwan, U.S. Plan to Co-Produce Artillery Shells Matt Yu and Joseph Yeh, CNA
January 12, 2026 Hong Kong Court Hearing Arguments on Sentencing in Former Publisher Jimmy Lai's Case Kanis Leung, The Associated Press How the Pentagon Countered China’s Designs on Greenland Drew Hinshaw and Jeremy Page, The Wall Street Journal With Venezuela Raid, U.S. Tells China to Keep Away From the Americas Michael Martina, Trevor Hunnicutt and David Brunnstrom, Reuters China AI Leaders Warn of Widening Gap With U.S. After $1 Billion IPO Week Bloomberg Taiwan Marine Corps' New Unit Equipped With U.S.-Made M4A1 Rifles: Source Wu Shu-wei and Joseph Yeh, CNA Underground Church Says Leaders Detained as China Steps Up Crackdown Amy Hawkins, The Guardian PLA Justice Mission 2025 Further Rehearses Taiwan Invasion Operations K. Tristan Tang, Jamestown Foundation Hebei’s Villages Are Freezing Zichen Wang, Pekinology
January 9, 2026 China Deprives Japan of Rare-Earths Supply, Escalating Dispute Jon Emont, The Wall Street Journal China to Approve Nvidia H200 Buying as Soon as This Quarter Bloomberg Bosses Courted to Join Prime Minister’s China Trip as Embassy Verdict Looms Mark Kleinman, Sky News Watch Closely How China Talks About Venezuela. It’s the Taiwan Playbook Isaac Stone Fish, Barron’s The U.S. Venezuela Operation Will Harden China’s Security Calculation Tong Zhao, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
January 8, 2026 China Reviews Meta’s $2 Billion Purchase of AI Start-Up Manus Ryan McMorrow and Zijing Wu, Financial Times Huang Says Nvidia Seeing ‘Very High’ Chinese Customer Demand for H200 AI Chips Kif Leswing, CNBC Beijing Tells Companies to Pause H200 Purchases — China Government Deliberating Terms for Letting Local Tech Companies Buy U.S. Chips While Still Growing Homegrown Semiconductors Jowi Morales, Tom’s Hardware China Announces Anti-Dumping Probe Into Japanese Chip-Related Chemical NHK World Trump Demands Venezuela Kick Out China and Russia, Partner Only With U.S. on Oil Anne Flaherty, Allison Pecorin and Rachel Scott, ABC News Venezuela Raid by U.S. Draws Concern in Taiwan Over Defense Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia Mark Carney Heading to Beijing to Thaw Canada-China Relations Zi-Ann Lum, Politico China Hacked Email Systems of U.S. Congressional Committee Staff Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times Japanese Nuclear Worker Loses Phone Containing Top Secret Data in China Lilia Sebouai, The Telegraph
January 7, 2026 China Bans Dual-Use Goods Exports for Japan Military Over Taiwan Remarks Reuters China: New Arrests at Underground Protestant Churches Human Rights Watch China Would Suffer 100,000 Fatalities in Taiwan Invasion: Report Sean Lin, CNA If China Attacks Taiwan Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Zack Cooper, Jake Rinaldi, Charlie Vest, Logan Wright and Joel Wuthnow, German Marshall Fund Maduro’s Capture Threatens China’s Ambitions in Latin America James T. Areddy, The Wall Street Journal Hong Kong Tech Minister’s Business Trip to U.S. Axed Four Hours After Announcement Irene Chan, Hong Kong Free Press
January 6, 2026 Trump’s Venezuela Strike Will Likely Change China’s Regional Calculations Ken Moriyasu, Nikkei Asia U.S. Forces in Korea to Hold Rapid Response Posture for a Taiwan Contingency Tetsuya Fujita, Nikkei Asia Inside U.S. Plans to Reopen World War II Air Bases for War With China Carter Johnston, Newsweek Hundreds of British Buses Have Chinese ‘Kill Switch’ Tony Diver, The Telegraph Reviewing the Chinese Navy in 2025 — Part I: The Surface Fleet Alex Luck, Naval News China’s Military Reforms Since 2015: Is Time on Its Side? Dennis J. Blasko, The Diplomat ‘Mad Fishing’: The Super-Size Fleet of Squid Catchers Plundering the High Seas Harriet Barber, The Guardian
January 5, 2026 Taiwan Sees Trump’s Arrest of Maduro as Helpful in Deterring Xi Yian Lee and Cindy Wang, Bloomberg China Social Media Hails U.S. Maduro Move as a Taiwan Template Bloomberg PLA’s Exercises Simulate Blocking Energy, Foreign Aid: U.S. Institute Elaine Hou and Hsiao Hsu-chen, CNA TSMC’s U.S. Expansion Crushes the Company’s Chip Margins, Shrinking Them by Nearly Eightfold Due to Higher Labor Costs & Wafer Depreciation Muhammad Zuhair, Wccftech China Launched 2.63 Million Daily Cyberattacks Against Taiwan in 2025 James Thompson, CNA China Accused of ‘Doxxing’ Taiwanese Legislator Lee I-chia, Taipei Times Former President Chen Shui-bian’s Talk Show Pulled Ahead of YouTube Debut Sophia Yeh, Hsieh Chun-lin, Hung Su-chin and Sunny Lai, CNA
January 2, 2026 Why China Is Doubling Down on Its Export-Led Growth Model Joe Leahy, Tom Hale and Arjun Neil Alim, Financial Times Secret Taiwan Defense Plans at Center of Spy War With China Allegra Mendelson, The Telegraph Taiwan Legislature Passes Motions Condemning Premier, National Security Council Head Liu Wan-lin and Sam Garcia, Taipei Times U.S. Grants TSMC Annual License to Import U.S. Chipmaking Tools Into China Hyunjoo Jin, Reuters U.S. Urges Beijing to Show ‘Restraint’ After Drills Near Taiwan Chung Yu-chen and Hsiao Hsu-chen, CNA Hong Kong Government Condemns BBC Over ‘Unfounded Report’ on Jimmy Lai’s Health Hans Tse, Hong Kong Free Press
January 1, 2026 Belt and Road Nations’ Share of China Trade Surplus Overtakes That of U.S. Kentaro Shiozaki, Nikkei Asia Bytedance to Spend About $14 Billion in Nvidia Chips in 2026, SCMP Reports Reuters Taiwan’s President Vows to Defend Sovereignty After China Drills AFP China’s Xi Says ‘Reunification’ With Taiwan ‘Unstoppable’ John Power, Al Jazeera Inside China’s Six-Decade Campaign to Dominate Rare Earths Keith Bradsher, The New York Times Chinese Homeschooled Students Embrace Freer Youth in Cutthroat Market AFP
December 31, 2025 China Mandates 50% Domestic Equipment Rule for Chipmakers, Sources Say Reuters Taiwan Navy Does Not Deny Locking Onto PLA Warship With Fire Control Radar Sean Lin, CNA China’s Push to Master the Arctic Opens an Alarming Shortcut to U.S. Daniel Michaels and Sune Engel Rasmussen, The Wall Street Journal Xi Steps Up Crackdown on Press Freedom in China: ‘Even Moderate Voices Are Being Silenced’ Alisha Rahaman Sarkar, The Independent China, Kazakhstan and the ‘Chinese Flag Burning’ Trial Rune Steenberg, Bitter Winter New Quality Combat Forces Underpin China’s Military Modernization Arran Hope, China Brief