Japan released its 2026 Defense White Paper on August 4, once again designating China "the greatest strategic challenge" — language the government has held constant since revising ......
Japan's Defense Ministry released its 2026 Defense White Paper in August, delivering one of Tokyo's starkest public assessments yet of the military balance between China and Taiwan......
A commentary published by Stanford University's Hoover Institution on July 27, 2026, argues Japan has quietly carried out its most profound defense transformation since 1945 — with......
Chinese public security agencies and cyberspace regulators have launched a sweep against third-party API relay services that gave mainland developers backdoor access to ChatGPT and......
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's dominant domestic memory chip producer, is in preliminary discussions with authorities in Beijing's Yizhuang Economic and Technological......
Taiwan kicked off Han Kuang 42, its largest annual live-force military exercise, on August 5, with the ten-day drill drawing sharply divergent reactions on both sides of the Taiwan......
Lyle Morris, a senior fellow at the Asia Society's Center for China Analysis, published a report on July 23, 2026, identifying eight variables he says shape Chinese leader Xi Jinpi......
A bamboo toy that sells for a few yuan has turned into an unlikely public relations headache for Huawei, after the Chinese tech giant filed a wave of takedown complaints against so......
China's State Council has published sweeping new exit-entry management regulations signed by Premier Li Qiang and set to take effect September 15, 2026 — rules that critics say tra......
Taiwan's top China policy official warned lawmakers on August 5 that a sweeping new set of Chinese exit-entry regulations, set to take effect September 15, are written so vaguely t......
China has launched a year-long nationwide campaign against organized crime beginning in July, with one landmark shift: for the first time, so-called "internet water armies" — coord......
Rintaro Ogata (緒方林太郎)Member of the House of Representatives. Born in 1973 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka. While at the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Law, he passed the diplomatic servi......
China's ruling Communist Party confirmed on July 31 that it will convene the fifth plenary session of the 20th Central Committee in October, placing an unusually explicit focus on ......
A Wall Street Journal report published July 30 set off a wave of market speculation by claiming that Tesla's senior leadership had been instructed to prepare for the "separation" o......
On July 20, a Philippine vessel clashed with Chinese coast guard forces near Second Thomas Shoal — the same day the ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting opened in Manila, and US Secret......
China released a 10,000-word white paper on July 28, rebranding its export surge as a global opportunity — arriving the day after the US announced new tariffs and European manufact......
A new ranking compiled from audience sentiment across Weibo, Taiwan's PTT bulletin board, and the community forum Dcard has named Lu Yuxiao — who played palace spy Shangguan Qian i......
When the American Institute in Taiwan posted a photograph on July 28 showing US and Taiwan coast guard vessels sailing in formation, supporters of the ruling Democratic Progressive......
Each year a small commemoration is held in Auckland to mark the anniversary of June 4, 1989. Portia Mao, a Mandarin-language journalist who has covered New Zealand's Chinese commun......
Days before Canadians voted on April 28 last year, a federal task force did something no government had done before: it publicly warned that a foreign state was running a transnati......
The first escalation came through her neighbors' letterboxes. Anonymous letters carrying Carmen Lau (劉珈汶)'s personal details, urging whoever read them to deliver her to the Chinese......
By the time human rights groups began campaigning in July for four Chinese dissidents held in a Bangkok detention centre, one of them had been gone for weeks.Tan Yixiang (譚翼翔), an ......
Two weeks after a stranger followed him into a Taichung hotel lobby and punched him in the face, Akio Yaita (矢板明夫) has no interest in discussing whether he will now choose his word......
When Taiwan authorities ordered a sweeping recall of contaminated soybean cooking oil in July 2026, the story traveled quickly across the strait. But it did not land the way Beijin......
A queue dispute at a Bangkok book fair has escalated into a diplomatic irritant between China and Thailand, after video of a Chinese woman being forcibly removed from a fan event s......
The White House publicly called out Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI on July 22, accusing it of building its newly launched Kimi K3 model partly through the unauthorized mass extract......
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI on July 27 released the complete model weights of Kimi K3, its flagship large language model — becoming the first company in the world to publicly re......
China's second-quarter GDP growth fell to 4.3%, missing the government's official target range of 4.5–5% and falling below both the first quarter's 5% result and most external fore......
A book published in Taiwan turns some of the most widely reported political events of the Xi Jinping era into something rarer: sustained portraits of the individuals who lived thro......
Less than two hours by road from Hong Kong, where a dispute over banned books continues to draw international scrutiny, this southern Chinese metropolis is playing host to a set of......
When Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 model on July 18, the immediate headlines focused on the stock market sell-off. The deeper story is about who gets to define what winning in A......
Pegatron Corporation (和碩聯合科技) Chairman Tung Tzu-hsien (童子賢) argued on July 22 that Taiwan's ambition to act on its own terms does not exempt it from the gravitational pull of large......
The mid-July 2026 expulsion of former Politburo member Ma Xingrui on corruption charges has put a spotlight on the political-business networks that flourished during China's real e......
"Battle of Penghu" (澎湖海戰), a major Chinese historical war epic timed to Beijing's pro-unification messaging, has reportedly been denied an official release permit days before its s......
A Chinese state-media-backed blockbuster that draws on a 17th-century naval campaign against Taiwan — and frames it as a historical blueprint for modern unification — may not reach......
Four Taiwanese airline routes into Chengdu will switch airports on July 30 — a logistical adjustment that has reignited long-running concerns about Beijing gradually reframing Taiw......
A trove of declassified Office of Naval Intelligence files reviewed at the U.S. National Archives in 2025 upends a durable assumption about Dai Li (戴笠), wartime director of Nationa......
Luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co. has taken legal action against a Chinese sanitary pad company over phonetic trademark similarities, escalating LVMH Group's intellectual property enfor......
China's economy grew just 4.3% in the second quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics reported July 15 — the weakest reading in three years and a sharp deceleration from the 5% ......
Taiwan is building a "next-generation ground combat wireless network" designed to keep military commanders connected to troops — and to police, firefighters, and hospitals — even i......
Chinese military activity around Taiwan has fallen to its lowest level in years even as the long-feared 2027 "Davidson Window" approaches, and Taiwanese intelligence believes it kn......
China has been systematically incorporating large civilian vessels — roll-on/roll-off ferries, bulk freighters, and hospital ships — into contingency planning for a potential milit......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, China's state broadcaster CCTV announced — with unusual speed for a PLA operation — that the navy had test-fired a submarine-launched intercontinental ball......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, a Chinese ballistic missile submarine fired a single JL-series submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that splashed down, as planned, in a designated ......
The chairman of the world's largest oil refinery took the stage at Summer Davos on Tuesday and delivered a forecast that would have sounded far-fetched a decade ago: green hydrogen......
By 8:30 a.m. on June 24, the queue had already stretched nearly the length of the main hall at the World Economic Forum's Summer Davos in Dalian. All of it was there for one man. P......
China's southernmost province is doubling down on a pledge to stop selling new gasoline-powered cars by 2030 — a commitment that would make Hainan the first Chinese province to set......
The Philippine government formally demanded Thursday that China's state-run China Daily remove an AI-generated video depicting Filipinos as monkeys, with both the foreign ministry ......
Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to attend this week's World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai — his first appearance at the annual event — as Beijing moves ......
National security police arrested five people over "seditious" books reportedly including a Taiwan-published study of identity under Xi Jinping — one day after one of the targeted ......
