Administration
Sep 06 | NYT
The department is aiming to begin soliciting applications for the funding from companies no later than February, and it could begin disbursing money by next spring. More
Sep 06 | Reuters
Biden's team has long sought - but has not yet confirmed - an in-person meeting between the two leaders to lower tensions over Taiwan, trade and a host of other issues. More
Sep 02 | Reuters
The U.S. Trade Representative's office said in a federal notice that it received requests from companies and other interested parties to maintain the "Section 301" tariffs imposed in 2018 and 2019. More
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Taiwan
Sep 03 | CNN
The State Department said the sales are in line with a longstanding U.S. policy of providing defensive weapons to the island and described the “swift provision” of such arms as being “essential for Taiwan's security.” More
Aug 29 | Mercatus
Compared with the effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the stakes of a Taiwan Strait crisis are greater for the US economy, with a heightened risk to US goods trade and digital flows. More
Aug 26 | Axios
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) made her comment in person, but her spokesperson confirmed to Axios she deliberately used the word. Blackburn is the latest of several U.S. officials to visit Taiwan since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit there earlier this month. More
China-Russia
Sep 02 | Moscow Times
China's UnionPay payment system has stopped accepting cards issued by Russian banks under Western sanctions over fears of penalties. Demand for UnionPay cards in Russia surged following Visa and Mastercard's exit in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine. More
Sep 01 | Axios
Moscow's decision to proceed with the Vostok war games with China this week is intended as a signal that Russia can still "play on multiple chess boards" even with so many of its forces now in Ukraine. More
Geopolitics
Sep 03 | FT
As tensions continue to build over Taiwan, southeast Asian governments must balance the competing pressures of Beijing and Washington. More
Sep 02 | Politico
Biden's challenge at the upcoming summit will be to overcome a U.S. credibility gap underscored by Beijing's controversial security pact with Solomon Islands' and island countries' skepticism about the U.S. commitment to address the existential threat they face from climate change. More
Aug 31 | Nikkei Asia
The Kayan Cascade project will eventually comprise five dams with a combined power generation capacity of 9 gigawatts, which would make it Southeast Asia's largest hydroelectric station. The project is expected to cost $17 billion and scheduled to be fully up and running by 2035. More
Aug 26 | Politico
The U.S. at the moment has an “Arctic coordinator” position; the State Department announcement says the plan is to “elevate” the coordinator role into an ambassadorship. The decision comes amid unusually tense relations between Washington and Moscow due to Russia's war on Ukraine. More
Climate & Energy
Aug 25 | CSIS
Expanding U.S. manufacturing to the point where it will replace Chinese production of technologies central to achieving decarbonization will take time, measured in decades and not months, and, as a result, Washington will have to grapple with China's importance in global supply chains for years to come. More
Business & Investment
Sep 04 | The Wire China
The insurance moguls Hank and Evan Greenberg both want better engagement with China. The way they argue for it, however, has some telling differences. More
Sep 01 | PIIE
After falling dramatically between 2017 and 2020, the number of CFIUS cases involving Chinese investors surged in 2021, as Chinese investors appear to have adjusted to the new rules. More
Aug 29 | WSJ
Only around half of 117 companies polled said they were optimistic or somewhat optimistic about their own outlook in China, down 18 percentage points from the year before and the lowest since the survey began more than 16 years ago. More
Trade & Commerce
Sep 01 | Oregon Business
In an interview, China's Consul General to San Francisco Zhang Jianmin discusses subnational trade opportunities despite tense bilateral ties. More
Aug 25 | Department of Agriculture
Dismantling China's non-tariff barriers on agricultural goods could open the country to buying a significantly higher volume of key commodities from US and other exporters, including up to five times more foreign pork, according to a new study published by the Agriculture Department. More
Economic Competition
Sep 02 | WSJ
The outlook for China's economy has darkened this year, as Beijing-led policies have sapped growth. As economists pare back their forecasts for 2022, they have become more worried about China's longer term prospects, with unfavorable demographics and high debt levels potentially weighing on any rebound. More
Aug 25 | Bloomberg
The People's Bank of China set its yuan reference rate at a stronger-than-expected level for the managed currency, as a widening monetary policy gap with the US continued to weigh. It was seen a signal the central bank wants to slow the pace of yuan depreciation. More
Tech Competition
Aug 31 | NYT
The new limits affect high-end models of chips known as graphics processing units, which are sold by the Silicon Valley companies Nvidia and AMD. More
Cybersecurity & Espionage
Sep 05 | Bloomberg
China accused a U.S. spy agency of hacking a government-funded university with aeronautics and space research programs, in Beijing's latest effort to hit back at Washington's complaints of cybersnooping. More
Sep 01 | Heritage Foundation
Universities should focus on improving education quality and outcomes for all students, while simultaneously working with law enforcement and intelligence agencies to protect the fruit of their research, writes Heritage Research Fellow Dustin Carmack. More
Space Competition
Sep 01 | Payload
Penned by four prominent Pentagon space officials, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) report makes the case for more thoughtful state industrial planning and outlines the role industry should play in that future. Thinking further out and working hand-in-glove with commercial space, the authors believe, will enable the US to move faster. The verdict: The US has a lot of work to do if it wants to compete with China over the long run. More
Sep 03 | Space.com
The United States isn't going back to the moon alone. NASA leads Artemis, but the program has brought in a number of international partners, including the space agencies of Japan, Canada and Europe. Two other space powers, China and Russia, aren't part of the consortium, but they have crewed moon plans of their own. More
Human Rights
Sep 06 | NYT
China's Communist Party has long promoted gender equality as one of its core tenets, yet as cases of gender violence continue to make national headlines, Beijing has done little to address calls for accountability. Fearing social unrest, the party has instead used social media censors to stifle criticism. More
Sep 05 | Nikkei Asia
China is committing a "serious rights violation" by expanding DNA collection efforts across Tibet, including taking blood samples from children as young as 5 years old, a Human Rights Watch report said. More
Aug 31 | NYT
The 48-page report did not use the word “genocide,” a designation applied by the United States and by an unofficial tribunal in Britain last year. But it validated rights groups' and activists' claims that China has detained Uyghurs, Kazakhs and others, often for having overseas ties or for expressing religious faith. More
Aug 24 | Axios
China is using “wolf warrior” diplomats, foreign and private media, and social media influencers to "flood" online spaces and manipulate the global narrative on Xinjiang, the State Department warns in a new report. More
Covid-19
Sep 05 | NYT
The number of infections remains relatively small, with about 1,500 new cases over the weekend. Yet some 60 million people across China are facing partial or full lockdowns, according to Chinese media, from Chengdu to the southern economic powerhouse of Shenzhen to the oil-producing city of Daqing near Russia. More
Aug 26 | AP
U.S. regulators suspended seven flights by Air China Ltd. from New York City and a total of 19 flights from Los Angeles by Air China, China Eastern Airlines Ltd., China Southern Airlines Ltd. and Xiamen Airlines Ltd., according to the Department of Transportation. More
Inside China
Sep 05 | Reuters
Senior officials from China's central bank and leading ministries warned at a news conference of risks for the economy, battered in recent months by COVID-19 related curbs, while promising fresh measures to follow a stimulus package released in May. More
Aug 31 | Reuters
China's ruling Communist Party will hold its five-yearly congress beginning on Oct. 16, with Xi Jinping poised to secure an historic third leadership term and cement his place as the country's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. More
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