Administration
Sep 23 | AP
Secretary Antony Blinken met with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in New York last week to discuss deescalating tensions around Taiwan and Russia. More
Sep 21 | NYT
During his recent UN General Assembly speech, Biden criticized China for continued human rights violations and said the United States would not ask other nations to choose between itself and a competitor, but asserted that Washington “will be unabashed in promoting” a vision of a free world. More
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U.S. Multilateralism
Sep 26 | UPI
Vice President Kamala Harris met with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on Monday to discuss China's recent aggression in the Taiwan Strait and to condemn North Korea's recent ballistic missile launch. More
Sep 22 | Politico
President Biden aims to use this week's summit to reverse Beijing's diplomatic inroads among the islands powered by decades of economic and development aid that threatens to render the U.S. regionally irrelevant. More
Geopolitics
Sep 26 | Bloomberg
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan after two decades of war opened up an opportunity for China to expand its influence and lock down access to the country's vast mineral deposits. More than a year later, investment has come as both countries accuse the other of underhanded dealing. More
Sep 26 | WSJ
After nearly a decade of pressing Chinese banks to be generous with loans, Chinese policy makers are discussing a more conservative program, dubbed Belt and Road 2.0 in internal discussions, that would more rigorously evaluate new projects for financing. More
Taiwan
Sep 24 | AP
China underscored its commitment to its claim on Taiwan during the UN General Assembly last week, telling assembled world leaders that anyone who gets in the way of its determination to reunify with the self-governing island would be “crushed by the wheels of history.” More
Sep 23 | The Diplomat
The Taiwan Policy Act demonstrates the heightened self-interest the United States' Taiwan policy has assumed as China has become a global competitor. More
China-Russia
Sep 24 | Reuters
China supports all efforts conducive to the peaceful resolution of the "crisis" in Ukraine, its foreign minister Wang Yi told the United Nations General Assembly, adding that the pressing priority was to facilitate peace talks. More
Military & Maritime
Sep 27 | AP
A U.S. Coast Guard ship on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across three Chinese naval ships and four Russian naval ships in formation. The ships operated in accordance with international rules and norms. More
Sep 24 | FT
The U.S. and Philippines will next year send 16,000 forces to participate in Balikatan, their main annual bilateral military exercise, said Colonel Michael Logico, director of the Philippine military's Joint and Combined Training Center, which recently hosted a planning conference with U.S. counterparts. More
Intelligence & Espionage
Sep 27 | Roll Call
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report and held a hearing to examine the counterintelligence threats not only to government entities but also to private companies and universities that are increasingly targeted by foreign spy agencies trying to steal the latest technological advances. More
Sep 22 | Bloomberg
The National Security Agency's cyber-warfare unit “penetrated and controlled” unnamed telecom operators, the Global Times reported last week. The attackers made off with network equipment and administrative passwords, file-transfer protocols and other sensitive data. More
Sep 20 | Reuters
A federal judge last week tossed most of University of Kansas chemical engineering professor Feng Tao's conviction for concealing work he did in China while conducting U.S. government-funded research, in the latest setback for a supposed crackdown on Chinese influence within American academia. The judge upheld Tao's conviction on one count of making a false statement. More
Tech & National Security
Sep 27 | WashPost
From fall of 2021 through the summer of 2022, the covert influence operation used Instagram and Facebook accounts posing as Americans to post opinions about hot-button issues such as abortion, gun control and high-profile politicians such as President Biden and Sen. Marco Rubio. More
Sep 26 | NYT
The Biden administration and TikTok have drafted a preliminary agreement to resolve national security concerns posed by the Chinese-owned video app but face hurdles over the terms, as the platform negotiates to keep operating in the United States without major changes to its ownership structure. More
Sep 24 | Nikkei Asia
The letter, released Thursday by Sen. Mark Warner, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Marco Rubio, calls for a comprehensive review of Chinese chipmaker YMTC, citing the company's "often opaque, ties to the Chinese Communist Party." More
Sep 20 | Reuters
The FCC's designations of Pacific Networks Corp and its subsidiaries are under a 2019 law aimed at protecting U.S. communications networks. More
Business & Investment
Sep 22 | Reuters
Top U.S. bankers came under pressure from lawmakers last week to take a tougher stance on doing business with China. Lawmakers also asked the CEOs to condemn China's "human rights abuses," in a departure from previous hearings that tended to focus on domestic issues like housing and consumer protection. More
Sep 22 | Reuters
About 10 officials from the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Ministry of Finance have arrived in Hong Kong and joined the U.S. audit inspection as part of the landmark deal between the United States and China. More
Trade & Commerce
Sep 22 | Nikkei Asia
The U.S. is not interested in decoupling its economy from China's but only in ensuring fair competition between the countries' businesses, said Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose Fernandez. More
Sep 21 | Politico
The decision avoids a new trade fight with Beijing, as well as with Japan, the European Union and other countries that export the magnets or have hopes of doing that to meet an expected upsurge in demand in coming years. It also should allay the concerns of U.S. automakers and other manufacturers who rely on imports of the magnets to produce finished goods. More
Climate & Energy
Sep 23 | WashPost
The United States and China had spent months working to develop working groups before the negotiations halted, U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry said, adding that the two sides were discussing Chinese efforts to reduce methane emissions and coal burning, as well as to improve the enforcement of existing Chinese anti-deforestation legislation. More
Sep 21 | Bloomberg
At $343 per kilowatt, compared with $1,200 per kilowatt in the West, Chinese factories can produce electrolyzers at a fraction of the cost of US and European competitors, giving them an edge in the race to manufacture the key technology for unlocking green hydrogen. More
Space & Science
Sep 23 | WSJ
China said it's set to launch the Xuntian survey space telescope in 2027, four years before NASA's version, Roman. WSJ compares their technology and designs as scientists in the U.S. and China race to lead the future of astrophysics research. More
Sep 22 | WSJ
More than 1,400 U.S.-trained Chinese scientists dropped their U.S. academic or corporate affiliation for a Chinese one in 2021, a 22% jump from the previous year, according to data gathered by researchers from Princeton University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More
Xinjiang & Human Rights
Sep 26 | Reuters
Western diplomats from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Norway are calling for a debate at the U.N. Human Rights Council to discuss China's treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic people in Xinjiang. More
Sep 25 | SCMP
Despite a new Washington law meant to block many imports from Xinjiang due to forced labor allegations, shipping records and customs data suggest that companies from Xinjiang are still sending their goods to the US – and at a much higher volume than before. More
Sep 23 | WashPost
A nine-day reporting trip by The Washington Post through Xinjiang in late July and early August revealed concerted efforts by Chinese officials to put the crackdown behind them. But even as the most visible security measures have been loosened, Xinjiang residents continue to live under heavier official pressure than in other parts of China. More
Inside China
Sep 26 | WSJ
The World Bank said in its latest assessment of the developing economies of East Asia and the Pacific that it expects China to expand 2.8% in 2022. That is down from a 4.3% forecast in June, and makes the World Bank gloomier on China's prospects this year than the International Monetary Fund, which forecasts 3.3% growth. More
Sep 25 | Bloomberg
The ruling party has selected 2,296 delegates from around the nation to attend the 20th Party Congress. In a Monday editorial, the People's Daily newspaper urged delegates to closely align behind “comrade Xi Jinping as the core” of the party. More
Sep 25 | FT
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee ended the quarantine policy that has cut the city off from the rest of the world for two-and-a-half years and throttled its economy. “We want to balance the need for controlling the epidemic . . . [with the need] to raise Hong Kong's competitiveness,” he said. More
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