March 16, 2023 U.S. Threatens to Ban TikTok Unless Chinese Owners Divest Sam Levin, The Guardian China, Japan Trade Accusations Over Maritime Incursions Associated Press How China Lost Asia Yoon Young-kwan, The Strategist China blocks U.S. webcast of North Korea rights meeting at U.N. Michelle Nichols, Reuters China’s Sound and Fury over Aukus Will Mean Little for Ties With Australia Benjamin Herscovitch, The Guardian Around the Halls: AUKUS Defines an Emerging Alliance at Sea Bruce Jones, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Ryan Hass, Amy J. Nelson, Tom Stefanick, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Caitlin Talmadge and Andrew Yeo, Brookings China’s Consumption Conundrum Damien Ma and Houze Song, Foreign Affairs U.S. Pushes for TikTok Sale to Resolve National Security Concerns David McCabe and Cecilia Kang, The New York Times China’s AI Chatbots Clam Up When Asked About Xi Jinping’s Leadership Shen Lu, The Wall Street Journal Strategic Amnesia: The U.S. Army’s Stubborn Rush to Its Next War Real Clear Defense China Gets a New Premier James Palmer, Foreign Policy Lost in Translation: What Happens When Academic Wxchanges Between the World’s Biggest Superpowers Collapse? Christina Lu, Foreign Policy 1,100 Scientists and Students Barred from U.K. Amid China Crackdown Hannah Devlin, The Guardian
March 15, 2023 Honduran President Seeks Diplomatic Relations With China in a Blow for Taiwan Tara Subramaniam, CNN Analysis: Fear of the Dark: Taiwan Sees Wartime Frailty in Communication Links With World Sarah Wu and Yimou Lee, Reuters China Removes All Remaining Curbs on Australian Coal Imports Bloomberg News Taiwan Unveils Its New Combat and Surveillance Drones as China Threat Grows Eric Cheung, CNN Taiwan Says Submarine Program Going to Plan Despite Difficulties Ben Blanchard, Reuters ‘AUKUS Created for Fighting’: Push for Indonesia to Refuse Access to Subs Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, The Sydney Morning Herald China Exerts Control Over Internet Cable Projects in South China Sea Anna Gross, Alexandra Heal, Demetri Sevastopulo, Kathrin Hille and Mercedes Ruehl, The Financial Times Brussels Seeks New Controls to Limit China Acquiring High-Tech Andy Bounds, The Financial Times Chinese SARS Whistleblower Jiang Yanyong Dies at 91 Associated Press Proposal of Chinese ‘Kill List’ of Taiwanese Independence Advocates Meant to Intimidate Brian Hioe, New Bloom Why Some China Hawks Worry About the Senate’s Bipartisan TikTok Bill Jimmy Quinn, National Review Why Saudi Snub of Biden on China-Iran Deal May Help U.S. Relations Laura Kelly and Brad Dress, The Hill
March 14, 2023 Australian Nuclear Submarine Program to Cost up to $368 billion as AUKUS Details Unveiled in the U.S. Andrew Greene and Matthew Doran, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) AUKUS Plan for Australia to Buy Nuclear-Powered Submarines Faces Big Political Risks Sebastien Roblin, 19FortyFive U.K. Approves Increased Submarine-Related Exports to Taiwan, Risking Angering China Andrew Macaskill and Elizabeth Piper, Reuters New U.K. Defense Guidance Sharpens Criticism of China Andrew Chuter, Defense News Celebrating AUKUS, the U.K. and Australia Hesitate on China Hawkishness Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner Taiwan Blasts EU for Wanting Chips While Denying Trade Talks Debby Wu, Bloomberg The Age of American Naval Dominance Is Over Jerry Hendrix, The Atlantic A New Pentagon Map Shows How China Is Beefing Up What a Top U.S. General Calls Its ‘Dangerous Position’ in the South China Sea Benjamin Brimelow, Business Insider Look to Korea to See How China Might Fight in the Pacific Today James Holmes, 19FortyFive The Liberal Cyber Order Joshua Rovner, War on the Rocks China Has Three Roads to Taiwan: The U.S. Must Block Them All Dan Blumenthal and Fred Kagan, The Hill U.S. Would Destroy Taiwan’s Semiconductor Factories Rather Than Letting Them Fall Into China’s Hands, a Former National Security Adviser Says Britney Nguyen, Business Insider Why Chinese students Are an Increasingly Rare Sight in Taiwan Jordyn Haime, Al Jazeera Bad Idea: Equating the Threats Facing Taiwan and Ukraine Hannah Price and Brian Hart, Defense360
March 13, 2023 Facing Massive Data Leak, Taiwan Fails the Test Vincent Cheng and Silva Shih, CommonWealth Magazine Taiwan Says Defense Spending to Focus on Readying for ‘Total Blockade’ by China Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard, Reuters China's Parliament Approves Changes to Speed Up ‘Emergency’ Laws Laurie Chen, Reuters Cobra Gold drills expose U.S.-China fight for Thailand Richard S. Ehrlich, Asia Times China Attack Calculus Depends on Unification, Economic Issues: U.S. Chiang Chin-yeh and Ko Lin, CNA China uses TikTok for Disinformation Campaign in Taiwan The Print Decisive Deterrence Requires U.S. Tactical Nuclear Weapons Richard D. Fisher, Taipei Times Beijing Beefs Up Unification Drive: Report Chen Yu-fu and William Hetherington, Taipei Times Military Research Unit to Unveil Taiwan-Developed Drones Next Week Matt Yu and Joseph Yeh, CNA China Launches Two More Type 052DL Destroyers in Dalian Tayfun Ozberk, Naval News Gaining Victory in Systems Warfare: China’s Perspective on the U.S.-China Military Balance Mark Cozad, Jeffrey Engstrom, Scott W. Harold, Timothy R. Heath, Sale Lilly, Edmund J. Burke, Julia Brackup and Derek Grossman, RAND Corportation
March 10, 2023 American Power and the Defense of Taiwan Matt Salmon and Shay Stautz, Foreign Policy Research Institute Second-Hand, Cheaper Virginia Subs Headed to Australia Matthew Cranston, Australian Financial Review Micronesia’s President Writes Bombshell Letter on China’s ‘Political Warfare’ Cleo Paskal, The Diplomat In AUKUS, Navy Eyes a Full-Service Submarine Garage in Asia-Pacific Megan Eckstein, Joe Gould and Sebastian Sprenger, Defense News A Timeline of China’s Alleged Interference in Recent Canadian Elections Steven Chase, The Globe and Mail Canadian Police Investigate Chinese ‘Police Stations’ in Quebec Nadine Yousif, BBC News Inside Indo-Pacific Command’s $87 Billion Wish List to Deter China Joe Gould, Defense News Chinese Rocket That Delivered Military Spy Satellites Breaks Up Over Texas Sam LaGrone, USNI News Pentagon Says Russia Supplying Fuel for Chinese Nuclear Warheads Bill Gertz, The Washington Times China embraces ChatGPT for Love Letters, Amazon Listings Viola Zhou, Rest of World The Philippines’ Evolving View on Taiwan: From Passivity to Active Involvement Renato Cruz De Castro, Brookings A Strategy of Denial for the Western Pacific Elbridge Colby, U.S. Naval Institute How U.S. Plans for a Faraway Pacific War While China Plots to Disrupt It Tom O'Connor and Naveed Jamali, Newsweek We May Already Be in a Cold War With China Joseph DeTrani, The Cipher Brief Qin Gang’s Blistering Broadside Batters Ties Phelim Kine, Politico
March 9, 2023 Exclusive: Australia Expected to Buy Up to Five Virginia Class Submarines as Part of AUKUS: Sources Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart and Steve Holland, Reuters Australia’s Nuclear Subs Will Use a U.K. Design to Counter China Peter Martin, Kitty Donaldson and Alex Wickham, Bloomberg Kevin McCarthy Confirms Tsai Meeting Erik Wasson and Billy House, Bloomberg Analysis: In His Parting Words, Li Keqiang Warns That 'Heaven Is Watching' Katsuji Nakazawa, Nikkei The Stars Have Aligned for the Philippines in the South China Sea Collin Koh, Defense News Philippines Launches Strategy of Publicizing Chinese Actions Jim Gomez, Associated Press China Maritime Report No. 26: Beyond the First Battle: Overcoming a Protracted Blockade of Taiwan Lonnie D. Henley, U.S. Naval War College Chinese Actions in South America Pose Risks to U.S. Safety, Senior Military Commanders Tell Congress Heather Mongilio, USNI News U.N. Wants Action From China on Rights ‘Concerns’ Robin Millard, AFP
March 8, 2023 Biden to Unveil U.K.-Australia Submarine Deal Monday in San Diego Jenny Leonard, Bloomberg Studying Ukraine War, China’s Military Minds Fret Over U.S. Missiles, Starlink Eduardo Baptista and Greg Torode, Reuters Chinese Ships Cut Internet of Taiwan’s Outlying Islands Huizhong Wu and Johnson Lai, Associated Press Tsai, McCarthy to Meet in U.S.: Report Liu Tzu-hsuan, Taipei Times China’s ‘Discourse Power’ Amid War Marcin Jerzewski, Taipei Times Defense Chief Affirms Military Would Fire at PLA Within Territorial Space Matt Yu and Joseph Yeh, CNA China May Test Taiwan’s 24-Nautical-Mile Limit: Chiu Shelley Shan, Taipei Times Taiwan Military to Outfit Aging M60A3 Tanks With New Engines Kelvin Chen, Taiwan News ‘Xi Jinping’s Guy’: Longtime Acolyte Li Set to Be China’s Next Premier Yew Lun Tian, Laurie Chen and Joe Cash, Reuters China Accused of ‘Harassment’ After Dozens of Its Ships Surround Disputed Island Nicola Smith, The Telegraph