January 29, 2026 Dissident Who Daringly Documented Uyghurs’ Repression Wins Asylum Amy Qin, The New York Times No Need to ‘Pick a Side’ Between U.S. and China: KMT Chair Liu Kuan-ting and Matthew Mazzetta, CNA Chinese Ambassador Hints at Retaliation if Port of Darwin Is Returned to Australian Control Olivia Caisley, ABC Reports Increase of Taiwanese Missing, Detained in China Chen Yu-fu and Hollie Younger, Taipei Times Keir Starmer and Team Take Burner Phones to China to Combat Spying Charlie Parker, The Times of London Taiwan Coast Guard Flags About 1,900 Chinese Vessels Hung Ting-hung and Jake Chung, Taipei Times Taiwan Approves Nvidia HQ Investment on Eve of Jensen Huang Visit Tseng Yun-ting and Frances Huang, CNA Inside Japan’s Long Battle to ‘De-Chinafy’ Its Rare Earth Supply Chain Shotaro Tani and Yuichi Shiga
January 28, 2026 Taiwan’s Backdoor Currency Manipulation Brad W. Setser, Council on Foreign Relations Keir Starmer Goes to China The Wall Street Journal Canada Welcomes Chinese Vehicles as U.S. Automakers Pull Investments Breana Noble and Grant Schwab, The Detroit News China’s Zijin Gold to Acquire Canadian Miner Allied Gold in $5.5-Billion Deal Niall McGee, The Globe and Mail Hong Kong Must Not Be Forgotten in China-U.K. Talks Megan Khoo, The Diplomat Tiananmen Vigil Activists Sought End to Communist Rule in Name of Democracy, Hong Kong National Security Trial Told Hans Tse, Hong Kong Free Press Rapid Buildup of Chinese Military Fuels Corruption Scandals Austin Ramzy, The Wall Street Journal Zhang Youxia’s Differences With Xi Jinping Led to His Purge K. Tristan Tang, The Jamestown Foundation Philippines Tells Beijing It Is Alarmed Over Escalating Verbal Tussle In South China Sea Dispute Jim Gomez, The Associated Press German Firms' China Investments Driven to Four-Year High by U.S. Trade Wars Rene Wagner and Christoph Steitz, Reuters China Reveals 200-Strong AI Drone Swarm That Can Be Controlled by a Single Soldier Jowi Morales, Tom’s Hardware
January 27, 2026 In Xi’s China, Even the Mightiest General Can Fall Chris Buckley, The New York Times The Demise of Zhang Youxia Hits Different Drew Thompson, Substack Alliance With U.S. Would ‘Collapse’ if Japan Fled a Taiwan Crisis: Takaichi Ryo Nakamura, Nikkei Asia Taiwan Court Rejects Damages Claim Over Lebanon Pager Blasts Lin Chang-shun and Evelyn Kao, CNA China Hacked Downing Street Phones for Years Rozina Sabur and Gordon Rayner, The Telegraph Starmer Says He Won’t ‘Choose Between’ the U.S. or China James Chater, BBC Taichung Prison to ‘Supervise’ Convicted Ex-President Chen's Planned Speech Chao Li-yen and James Thompson, CNA
January 26, 2026 Xi’s Purge of Top General Spurs Questions on Taiwan, Succession Bloomberg TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga David McCabe and Emmett Lindner, The New York Times Carney Says Canada Not Pursuing Free Trade Deal With China as Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs Lim Hui Jie, CNBC Trump Administration Pushes Out Key Officials Focused on China Tech Threat Heather Somerville and Amrith Ramkumar, The Wall Street Journal Labour’s Year-Long China Charm Offensive Revealed Graham Lanktree, Politico American Restraint and Its Limits Ryan Fedasiuk, Choosing Victory That Isn’t Signaling. China’s Military Is Seriously Rehearsing Around Taiwan Nathan Attrill, The Strategist
January 23, 2026 TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga David McCabe and Emmett Lindner, The New York Times Hong Kong Slams European Parliament’s Calls for Officials to Be Sanctioned Over Jimmy Lai’s National Security Conviction Hong Kong Free Press Taiwan-U.S. Tariff Deal to Boost Business, Open Supply Chain Doors Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia Human Rights Defender Yang Li Arbitrarily Detained by Police on Her Way to Seek Critical Medical Treatment Front Line Defenders Russia, Ukraine and the Race for Chinese Drone Components Charles Clover, William Langley, Chris Cook and Christopher Miller, Financial Times Embassy Echo Chamber: How Beijing Directs Its Propaganda Network in the Philippines Ray Powell, SeaLight Donald Trump’s Adventurism Is Unsettling China The Economist
January 22, 2026 The First Shot Taiwan Hopes Never to Fire Miao Zong-Han, Lianhe Zaobao The Chinese Spy Machine Infiltrating Taiwan’s Military Joyu Wang, The Wall Street Journal Despite Trump’s Pressure, $40 Billion in Military Money Is Stalling in Taiwan Chris Buckley and Amy Chang Chien, The New York Times Chinese Embassy Opponents to Seek Judicial Review Aurelia Foster, BBC Britain and China to Revive ‘Golden Era’ Business Dialogue During Starmer Visit Joe Cash, Reuters Chinese EVs Blow Past Tesla and Tariffs en Route to Global Reign Stephen Wilmot and Santiago Pérez, The Wall Street Journal ASEAN, China in Final Stages of Finalizing South China Sea Code of Conduct Bernama China Is Building ‘Full-Stack’ Defense-Innovation Cities Tye Graham and Peter W. Singer, Defense One
January 21, 2026 U.K.’s China Embassy Gamble Shows Changing Calculations in Divided West Andrew Macaskill, Kate Holton and Ben Blanchard, Reuters The New Chinese Embassy in Perspective Charles Parton, Observing China Carney’s RCMP-Chinese Police Cooperation Deal Is a Counterintelligence Danger That Risks Sovereignty Garry Clement, The Bureau How Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists Sought Ties With Chinese Officials Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Newsweek What to Know About the Trial in Hong Kong Against Tiananmen Vigil Organizers Kanis Leung, The Associated Press Hong Kong Courts Still Handling Around 70 Cases Linked to 2019 Protests Hillary Leung, Hong Kong Free Press Anthropic CEO Says AI Chip Sales to China Like Selling Nukes to North Korea Christina Kyriasoglou, Bloomberg Ryan Hass on Taiwan: Five Questions for 2026 Ryan Hass, Taipei Times
January 20, 2026 China Flies Drone Into Taiwan’s Airspace for First Time Kathrin Hille, Financial Times Japan’s Prime Minister Calls Snap Election as Approval Ratings Ride High Justin McCurry, The Guardian Taiwan Releases More Information on Weapons Systems in Special Defense Budget William Hetherington, Taipei Times This Refugee Witnessed Atrocities in a Chinese Internment Camp. Years Later, She’s Still Demanding Justice James Lynch, National Review The China That Deng Built Coolest’s Substack China’s Arctic Push Threatens Greenland and North American Defense Miles Yu, The Washington Times A Failed Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Would Be Disastrous for Xi Jinping Bonnie S. Glaser and Zack Cooper, Foreign Policy
January 19, 2026 Canada’s Deal With China Signals It Is Serious About Shift From U.S. Nadine Yousif, BBC China’s Birth Rate Drops to Record Low as Economy Hits Target Despite U.S. Trade War Simone McCarthy and John Liu, CNN Two More College Student Unions at Chinese University of Hong Kong Cease Operations James Lee, Hong Kong Free Press Taiwan Says Chinese Drone Violated Airspace Over Remote Island It Controls NHK World China Tells Cambodia Scam Hub Disappearances Threaten Ties AFP How America Can Stop Getting Played by China Liza Tobin and Addis Goldman, Foreign Affairs Obedience, Ambiguity, and Punishment: The Chinese Military at Tiananmen Revisited Joseph Torigian, War on the Rocks
January 16, 2025 Taiwan Will Invest $250 Billion in U.S. Chipmaking Under New Trade Deal Kif Leswing, CNBC Taiwan Says More U.S. Arms Sales Are in the Pipeline Reuters Canada Prime Minister Hails New Partnership With China in Wake of ‘New Global Realities’ The Guardian China’s Record Trade Surplus Shows It Can Thrive Without the U.S., But Can It Keep Its Winning Streak Going? Simone McCarthy, CNN Forget Trump’s Tariffs. The Real Danger Lies in China’s Trade Surplus Eswar Prasad, The New York Times Taiwan Political Crisis Threatens Budgets and Rattles Businesses Thompson Chau, Nikkei Asia Four Movies ‘disappear’ From Hong Kong Film Awards’ Contenders List Irene Chan, Hong Kong Free Press South African Naval Exercise Goes From Bad to Worse The Maritime Executive How Trump Is Making China Great Again — and What It Means for Europe Timothy Garton Ash, Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard, Council on Foreign Relations
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