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How to defend yourself against Chinese economic coercion — Q&A with Bonnie Glaser
Bonnie Glaser has a lifetime of experience researching and advising the U.S. government on trans-Pacific geopolitics, security, and defense. I asked her all about the global anxieties China and the U.S. are causing around the world, how close we are to a war over Taiwan, and much more.
The cutthroat race to build cutting-edge chips | Live with Lizzi Lee
Chris Miller, associate professor of international history at the Fletcher School, talks about whether China’s massive push to build chips at home can catch up with the United States’s lead.
Will Beijing follow Hong Kong and loosen COVID-zero?
Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan have eased up on COVID restrictions. Could the Chinese mainland be next?
Parliamentarians ramp up pressure on China over Taiwan as U.S. moots potential sanctions
Taiwan hosted a group of lawmakers at its estate in Washington, D.C., right as reports emerged that the U.S. is considering a sanctions package on China.
Taiwan, abandoned
Huang Bowen captures the passage of time
Taiwan to allow visa-free travel from certain countries in latest reopening step
Taiwan has lifted visa restrictions on some incoming visitors in a bid to revive international travel, but has left Asian tourists from its most important markets off of the exempt list.
Taiwan fired warning shots at three Chinese drones over Kinmen
The Taiwanese military said it used live fire for the first time to repel ‘civilian’ drones from the Chinese mainland that were hovering over Taiwan-controlled islands near the city of Xiamen.
Taiwan withdraws from hosting WorldPride 2025 over naming dispute
A blame game involving contradictory accounts erupted after Taiwan backed out from hosting a global LGBTQ gathering due to a name dispute with the event’s licensor.
Beijing seethes as more U.S. and Japanese officials visit Taiwan
Envoys from the United States and Japan are currently paying visits to Taiwan, adding to the list of foreign delegations that have angered Beijing since Pelosi’s trip.
‘What rock did you crawl out from under?’ — Phrase of the Week
A duel of nationalist Chinese pundits: Did the aggro propagandist come out of nowhere, or was it his establishment critic?
U.S. finally passes semiconductor subsidy bill, but it’s not going to help competition with China
The new CHIPS and Science Act will help America advance its indigenous semiconductor industry. But it’s not going to make the U.S. any less dependent on Taiwan or any more competitive with China, argues Paul Triolo.
Putin says Pelosi’s Taiwan trip was a ‘thoroughly planned provocation’
This week in China-Russia relations: The People’s Liberation Army is sending troops to Russia to join military games, as Putin offers moral and ideological support for his best friends in Beijing.
China launches new military drills after new U.S. congressional visit to Taiwan, but Xi and Biden still set to meet
A fortnight after Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan and enraged Beijing, another group of U.S. politicians touched down in Taipei. But Joe Biden and Xi Jinping are still set to meet face to face in November, according to a new report.
China’s first white paper on Taiwan under Xi does not renounce use of force
The official document, the third of its kind ever released by Beijing, urges Taiwan to adopt the “one country, two systems” principle used in Hong Kong and Macau.
Why are Taiwanese people just chilling as the missiles fly? — Q&A with William Yang
Everybody seems to be talking about war as China ramps up its rhetoric and its live-fire military exercises in the seas and skies around Taiwan. But not so much the Taiwanese. I asked journalist and president of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents Club William Yang: What is the rest of the world getting wrong?
China extends military drills around Taiwan
Beijing has announced it will carry out more drills in the waters surrounding Taiwan a day after they were scheduled to end, as tensions rise in the Taiwan Strait.
View from Taiwan: Life goes on as tensions escalate following Pelosi visit
Taiwan experts and officials have refrained from calling the recent tensions a “crisis.” “There’s apparently an overreaction by the foreign media and also by policy experts in the U.S.,” one Taipei-based political scientist said. “In Taiwan, people just don’t see it as a very severe crisis right now.”
A very unstable new baseline — Editor’s note for Friday, August 5, 2022
A note for Weekly newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
‘Those who play with fire perish by it’ — Phrase of the Week
As tensions in the Taiwan Strait and between the U.S. and China ratchet up, the language used by Chinese officials is becoming more colorful and bellicose.
