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Chair of a small pro-China political party accused of planning to act as a paramilitary cell in wartime sentenced in the first instance to ten years in jail for passing on information to China, including passing on photos of military sites cna.com.tw/news/asoc/2025…

Catch up on everything that China Aerospace Studies Institute has been doing with our 2nd Quarterly Update for 2025: airuniversity.af.edu/CASI/Articles/… With a special shout out to our "Big Brothers" up at China Maritime-CMSI Studies Institute (CMSI) for a great biennial conference.

Just received the proof of my book—Governance of a Party-state—on the 104th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. A timely moment to reflect on how the Party governs, controls, and adapts. 📘 Find more: [Cambridge University Press link] 🔗 cambridge.org/core/books/gov…

Is Xi up or down? Amid current speculations about power struggles at the top of the CCP, I found this Jamestown China Brief note very useful in dissecting the possible interpretations of recently published new regulations. jamestown.org/program/diverg…

Want to know about #China's Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures #TTP for #Space ? Read about the Shi Jian 6 (#SJ-6) satellite series in CASI's latest article airuniversity.af.edu/CASI/Display/A…

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New! U.S. Naval War College/China Maritime-CMSI Translation #20: “Spring Breeze Accompanies Us As We Strive Forward” digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-translati… ⚓⚓⚓From CMSI Director CAPT Chris Sharman, U.S. Navy (Ret.): China Navy Watchers: What problems has China’s Navy encountered adjusting to the new

🚨🆕🐟🍟 New blog from me and the amazing Threat Insight team covering recent activity by multiple China-aligned threat actors targeting semiconductor companies in Taiwan over the past few months: proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat…

New! U.S. Naval War College/China Maritime-CMSI Report #48—“Great Inspectations: PRC Maritime Law Enforcement Operations in the #Taiwan Strait” digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-maritime-… From #CMSI Director CAPT Chris Sharman, U.S. Navy (Ret.): #China Maritime Watchers: People’s Republic of China (PRC)

PLA 76 GA WTC troops advanced w robot wolves also equipped with QBZ-191 assault rifles or reconnaissance payloads. Aerial drone operators, wearing ghillie suits deployed FPV drones to carry out reconnaissance & attack missions globaltimes.cn/page/202507/13…

“Whatever the reasons for the recent purges, they will almost certainly degrade China’s combat readiness and the Chinese leadership’s confidence in the PLA’s capabilities.” Great analysis by ⁦M. Taylor Fravel⁩ foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-m…

Since the Kinmen Model was announced, the CCG and PLA have practised different forms of maritime control, and the model has evolved as China has experimented with its application. Read the latest IISS analysis by Erik Green (Erik Green 林艾力): ➡ go.iiss.org/4m1c29W

A Taiwan conflict 'would also affect non-Chinese banks as firms and individuals would become unable to pay back their loans and Chinese firms may default on debts to foreign banks...UK banks have the largest exposure to China'. stlouisfed.org/-/media/projec…

I was pleased to share my views on China's asymmetric lawfare at a hearing yesterday held by the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet. youtube.com/live/_PXBpPLIH…

“The Defense Logistics Agency is looking to expand its maritime refueling capacity from the Philippines by contracting companies on the southern island of Mindanao to supply up to 42 million gallons of fuel a year, according to new documents.” 1/3 news.usni.org/2025/07/22/pen…

This piece was a genuine team effort on the research and analysis of Xi's standing and how to evaluate recent rumors. It's long but we show our work: jamestown.org/program/termin… 2/2

The Cyber Patents China Didn’t Want Us to Find… SentinelLabs has uncovered 10+ patents for highly intrusive forensics and data collection tools—filed by companies named in U.S. government indictments for working with the Chinese Hafnium (aka Silk Typhoon) APT group. 🧵 Why

🧵 An update on the project I've been leading at The National Bureau of Asian Research on China's #StrategicSpace. We turn our attention to #Borderlands, the proximate strategic space Beijing has labeled sanbian 三边 (frontiers 边疆 + borders 边境 + periphery 周边) since 2021 strategicspace.nbr.org/borderlands-an…

Microsoft is probing whether a MAPP leak let Chinese hackers exploit a SharePoint vuln pre-patch. In our new NattoThoughts piece, Dakota Cary, Mei Danowski & I dig into: 🇨🇳 China’s vuln disclosure rules 📉 MAPP adds/drops since 2018 ⚠️ Risks posed by current members

Taiwan close to record deal with Alaska for 6 million tons of LNG: Governor - Focus Taiwan focustaiwan.tw/politics/20250…