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Clinical forensic investigation of a crucial issue that without doubt extends across higher education institutions, both in the US and beyond

China and Colombia have signed a joint cooperation plan on the Belt and Road Initiative, state media said on Wednesday after their leaders met in Beijing. usnews.com/news/world/art…

Rogue communication devices have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters. Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers reuters.com/sustainability…

NEW ASIA INSIGHT podcast episode out today: An Analysis of China’s White Paper on National Security in the New Era with Nadège Rolland and Bates Gill! Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and most other platforms by searching Asia Insight. podcasts.nbr.org/e/decoding-chi…

This week, China published its first white paper on "national security in the new era." My colleague Bates Gill kindly offered his analysis of the document and what it reveals about Beijing's current priorities. open.spotify.com/episode/6ucUAh…

No booze, no flowers: Chinese officials told to tighten their belts. Beijing has issued new spending guidelines to government officials, telling them to live “a frugal life” as China faces economic headwinds washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/…

The ones who know know

First "mariculture structures" and now no-sail zone in Yellow Sea PMZ - the same modus operandi dating back to the 1990s in the SCS at least, allowing Beijing to incrementally assert control and establish new "facts" on the ground. en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN202505…

Bit of a stern comment by PLA Barbarian handler Zhou Bo: PLA live fire drills in Tasman Sea should provide some "soul searching about what [Australia] has done to China"... youtube.com/watch?v=G8Nsrm…

Or how China shifted from being the developing world's banker to debt collector

Major media investigation finds thousands of Uyghurs forced to work in 75 factories across 11 Chinese regions, with links to major western companies. I supported this joint investigation into state-imposed forced labor transfers by The New York Times DER SPIEGEL The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. THREAD: 👇

ASIA INSIGHT PODCAST | NBR's Nadège Rolland and Bates Gill discussed the white paper titled "China’s #NationalSecurity in the New Era" that was released on May 12, 2025, by #China’s State Council Information Office. nbr.org/publication/an…

SecDef Pete Hegseth is about to speak here at the Shangri-La Dialogue IISS in Singapore. This is his first major speech in the region, so will be watched closely. I’m going to live tweet it. Here we go…

Artwork by Lau Yan Hin takes on the decision by Hong Kong officials to, yet again, turn Victoria Park into a patriotic marketplace on June 4th:

Never forget

81 years ago ordinary men did extraordinary things. Lest we forget.

To understand how we came up to this point, read Andrew Erickson 艾立信’s essay mapping China’s maritime strategic space under XJP nbr.org/publication/ge…

Reuters: A Chinese-backed militia is protecting new rare earth mines in eastern Myanmar, say four people familiar with the matter, as Beijing moves to secure control of the minerals it is wielding as a bargaining chip in its trade war with Washington. reuters.com/world/china/ch…

China announced that Xi Jinping will attend the second China-Central Asia Summit in Astana on June 16-18. Meanwhile, it is still unsure if Xi will attend the EU - China Summit marking 50 years of diplomatic rations, even though it will be exceptionally held in Beijing in July

‘China stockpiling nuclear warheads at fastest rate globally’—new reporting from The Guardian highlights findings from the #SIPRIYearbook 2025. Read the full article: theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…