Asia-Pacific Security Chair, Hudson Institute & Carnegie Mellon University Scholar in Residence; Former Director, INSS & Assistant Administrator, USAID.
Hong Kong Journalists Say Police Violence Against Them 'Overwhelming' . Two-thirds of journalists in Hong Kong have suffered verbal abuse or physical violence while trying to do their jobs
China’s Indian land grab has become a strategic disaster. From Ladakh to the Siliguri corridor to Arunachal Pradesh, Xi’s encroachments across LAC are compelling India’s opposition
#LAC
@Chellaney
Risky mission: Sail to a contested atoll in the S. China Sea, cut barrier blocking Filipino fishermen & get out via
@WSJ
@jaytaryela
: the goal was “to show the Filipino people, to show the world, that we’re now going to stand up against the bully"
#Taiwan
to donate 2 million face masks to support front-line medical personnel across the
#UnitedStates
. This will be part of a broader donation of 10 million face masks to the international community.
#TaiwanCanHelp
Japan’s former PM warns China invading Taiwan would be an ‘emergency’ for Tokyo Shinzo Abe: “A military adventure is the road to economic suicide" for China; but "A Taiwan emergency is a Japan emergency...it's an emergency for the US-Japan alliance"
Shots fired as Chinese boats ram coast guard ship Chinese fishing boats conducting illegal fishing in Taiwan's water took turns ramming Taiwan coast guard cutter
'Quad' countries arranging first meeting of leaders | The Japan Times Officials said to be setting up a meeting of the four leaders of the Quad from Japan, US, India and Australia
Huawei able to monitor all calls made on Dutch mobile phone network KPN, report finds; the Dutch domestic intelligence service, AIVD, has warned of possible espionage.
#Huawei
Authoritarians are using coronavirus for power grabs in Southeast Asia
@Richeydarian
: "Authoritarian-leaning leaders should not be given a free pass in the name of addressing an urgent crisis."
Japan must urgently increase defense spending Japan is a great ally, but
@ElbridgeColby
is right that a more normal defense budget would match Tokyo's longstanding assessment of regional security challenges
US, Japan, India and Australia simulate 'Quad' drill in Indo-Pacific Cronin: "As China becomes more feared and less loved, other states are less reticent to express their doubts about Beijing's benign intentions."
Taiwan is the future of the Asia-Pacific, not China
@DCTwining
"Taiwan is a front-line state in the conflict against digital authoritarianism." It overcame Beijing's interference by "civic education and a whole-of-society effort"
US and South Korea sign military cost-sharing deal after years of heated talks Six-year Special Measures Agreement is a golden opportunity to strengthen and broaden the ROK-US alliance!
China continues its territorial advances in Asia
@Chellaney
on China's cabbage strategy: "What stands out is the speed and scale with which China is redrawing facts on the ground without firing a shot."
#India
#Bhutan
#Nepal
#SouthChinaSea
#HongKong
media mogul sentenced to 13 months in jail over
#Tiananmen
vigil
#JimmyLai
“If commemorating those who died because of injustice is a crime . . [then] let me suffer..., so I may share the burden & glory of those...who shed their blood on June 4.”
Japan called on China to improve rights for Uyghurs and ease up on Hong Kong, Tokyo said, ahead of the Japanese leader’s trip to meet President Biden via
@WSJ
Japan stands up for human rights
U.S. military to use Papua New Guinea naval base for 15 years
@SecDef
visit to PNG codify naval basing & allied and partner interest in Pacific Islands
Matt Pottinger is a level-headed, smart, hard-working China and Asia expert, with military and investment experience, and he's also been at the NSC from the beginning
US and Japan to invest $4.5bn in next-gen 6G race with China "Open-RAN is an open-source platform where network operators can mix and match hardware from different vendors, without having to own entire systems of antennas and base stations."
Pence tears into China over treatment of Uighurs The Vice President speaks of principles on which the U.S.A. was founded when he declares that "the American people will stand in solidarity with the people of all faiths"
J.D. Vance’s attack on Gen. McCaffrey is obscene
@JDVance1
should salute not smear
@mccaffreyr3
who, as
@maxboot
writes, earned all 4 stars, including with 3 Purple Hearts, 2 Distinguished Service Crosses & 2 Silver Stars
#USArmy
#USA
王海运少将:我主张尽快将武统台湾提上日程 PLA Major General Wang Haiyun calls for intensifying preparation to “unify Taiwan by force” as “seizing Taiwan within a week is not a problem” (But the US, he admits, is “the biggest difficulty”)
Wuhan Coronavirus Looks Increasingly Like a Pandemic, Experts Say Dr. Fauci: "It's very, very transmissible, and it almost certainly is going to be a pandemic."
@EliotACohen
: "All that is clear right now is that a failure to adequately support Ukraine will have terrible consequences, and not just for that heroic and suffering nation."
#UnitedwithUkraine
A cold war with Beijing is already under way. The question, Michael Beckley and
@HalBrands
write, is whether America can deter China from initiating a hot one. Rather than a long game, it may be rather short
US & Japan to jointly stockpile munitions near Taiwan Allies cooperate on stockpiling of munitions & shared use of runways; beefing up the Nansei Islands, missile inventory, & R&D for directed-energy defenses against hypersonics
Taiwan Funding of Think Tanks: Omnipresent and Rarely Disclosed Get your facts right: Ryan and I received zero dollars in TECRO funding; our Taiwan essay was based only on our view of US national interests
Matthew Pottinger at the White House shaping Trump’s line policy toward Beijing. As H. R. McMaster notes, Matt Pottinger was central “central to the biggest shift in U.S. foreign policy since the Cold War, which is the competitive approach to China.”
Dozens of US universities support challenge to Trump's order on foreign students: Court document Nearly 60 universities join amicus brief in support of Harvard/MIT lawsuit
Duterte faces China dilemma over 'militia' in South China Sea
@GregPoling
Duterte "has kept quiet on the West Philippine Sea for nearly five years, but Beijing has not responded by de-escalating the maritime tensions or by delivering the ...aid promised"
Ukraine conflict: 77% in Japan fear Taiwan spillover Wonder why Japan is taking Russian invasion so seriously?: 83% of middle-aged Japanese fear could trigger Taiwan conflict
Dutch frigate to join British Carrier Strike Group via
@ukdefjournal
Europeans increasingly understand that maritime rules and order--including high seas freedom--must be upheld globally
Taiwan could force ANZUS-busting choice Paul Dibb: It is in our interests to stand up for the defence of a successful democracy of 24 million people living on an island.... If Taiwan is not worth defending, why would anyone come to Australia’s defence?"
Iran just outplayed the United States — again
@MaxBoot
on target; put differently, US air strikes may deter conventional war but now Iran’s political and hybrid war
China said for the first time that it excluded people who were infected with the novel coronavirus but haven’t shown symptoms from its national tally PRC manipulates data as a matter of practice
Like it or not, the new cold war is a reality. Denying it will only make winning tougher, writes
@RepGallagher
@RepGallagher
is a great American, and China IS waging a total competition, but we & our allies need a new phrase for this complex relationship
Taiwan's Tsai shoots down Xi's unification road map President Tsai: "Hong Kong's experience under 'one country, two systems' has shown the world, once and for all, that authoritarianism and democracy cannot coexist"
Beijing wants to rewrite the rules, whether by coaxing Manila to disregard the 2016 tribunal award on the South China Sea or restricting innocent passage and making excessive claims around Paracels
Japan doubles down on the US alliance as China looms via
@ft
@gideonrachman
rightly describes US-Japan alliance as "a rare and unambiguous bright spot"...with a serious strategic objective
#USJapan
#Biden
#Kishida
@douglaslondon5
: "an insurgency that has reliable supply lines, ample reserves of fighters, and sanctuary over the border can sustain itself indefinitely, sap an occupying army’s will to fight"
PLA's long-game to dominate S. China Sea via
@WSJ
@NiharikaSM
: "China’s gradualist approach has often confounded its opponents, leaving them uncertain about whether, when & how strongly to respond without escalating tensions."
@tshugart3
@GregPoling
@anneapplebaum
On China's attempt "to rewrite the operating language of the international system so that it benefits autocracies instead of democracies."
Coastguard’s detention powers clarified as activists converge on South China Sea via
@scmpnews
"Detaining" Filipinos in the Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone would be kidnapping because UNCLOS trumps China's unlawful nine-dash-line "historic claims"
Election triumph will boost Modi's international clout Brahma Chellaney: Indian PM Modi "may turn out to be the most important Indian leader on the world stage since Indira Gandhi...."
Truth threatens China "CCP has overseen the outbreak of two pandemics in less than two decades...The apparent emergence of COVID-19 in the wet markets...suggests the one-party state has not done its job. If that is wrong, let science reveal the truth."
Donald Trump and late Japanese leader Shinzo Abe were close, but Abe later called Trump weak on North Korea. “We absolutely couldn’t let the outside world catch wind of it.” Unusual glimpse into late Abe’s real thoughts
Russia condemns 'militarization' of Japan under Kishida defense plan And whatever you do, please don't mention Putin's brutal onslaught against Ukraine
#cheek
#Japanselfdefense
#RussianWarCrimes
Maritime militia in Spratlys testing Biden administration Carl Schuster, former operations director at USPACOM's Joint Intelligence Center: “Only professional seamen know it’s a lie -- no one ‘shelters’ their ships in a storm area weeks ahead of a storm."
Microsoft to build Taiwan data center amid US-China tech war Follows on heels of Google announcement that it would build its third data center in Taiwan
#Taiwan
#Google
#Microsoft
Delicate dance with the dragon Former DFAT Sec. Peter Varghese: “Do not treat China as an enemy but quietly abandon the notion that we can have a comprehensive strategic partnership with China for as long as it remains a one-party authoritarian state.”
Australian foreign minister Marise Payne calls for global institutions such as The WHO "serve as bulwarks against disinformation” and says it is “troubling that some countries are using the pandemic to undermine liberal democracy....”
The Fight for Taiwan Could Come Soon by
@ElbridgeColby
While I think the Biden administration is acutely aware of the military dangers, I think
@ElbridgeColby
is spot on with policy prescriptions, including strengthening U.S. military position
China's top diplomat: if Norway cherishes its "healthy and stable" relationship with Beijing, it should not award the Nobel Prize to Hong Kong democracy protesters (sounds like a vote in their favor)
#HongKong
China's 'red lines' on Taiwan in play as Biden challenges Trump
@BonnieGlaser
raises an important known unknown: "how vulnerable is Xi Jinping on Taiwan, if he is seen as too soft, as not doing enough to protect sovereignty, could we force his hand?"
@KHayhoe
: "Climate change has loaded the weather dice against us." Next week a “rapid attribution” study will assess how it contributed to the Northwest heatwave
@sarahkaplan48
Japan to launch U.S.-inspired defense R&D center with eye on AI via
@NikkeiAsia
A DARPA for Japan is long overdue (as long recommended by
@HudsonInstitute
's William Schneider)
#Japan
#DARPA
US pledges to help Japan with 'unprecedented' Chinese incursions US-Japan will stand tall, together, and in support of the rule of law in the face of Beijing's unremitting bullying
Australia Abandons Its Neutrality on the South China Sea Maritime Disputes
@Diplomat_APAC
As AUSMIN commences, Canberra sends a clear signal of support for the rule of law
Russia up in arms over Chinese theft of military technology . Moscow unable to take on Beijing despite China's rampant intellectual property theft of weapons
Netherlands and Japan join US in restricting chip exports to China The triple chip alliance protects lead in advanced semiconductors
#US_Japan_Netherlands
#chip_war
Japan to buy Tomahawk missiles in defense buildup amid fears of war Adding up to 500 cruise missiles is one of the clearest ways for Japan to ward off potential aggressors
#counterstrike
#deterrence
#Japan
Beijing won total control over Hong Kong. Now, the ‘brainwashing’ begins. Hushed compliance, elementary school teachers forced to show cartoons extolling national security law, and goose-stepping police: welcome to Xi's new world order
Abe's exit rips gash in Abenomics and Indo-Pacific strategy Cronin: "Prime Minister Abe has been a driver and intellectual force behind a free and open Indo-Pacific region."
#NichiBeiAlliance
Yes, China could start WWIII but why would it want to? If we wish to be truly "strategic," then we need to pay great attention to non-military instruments of power, too
Only five years left to prevent war with China: Kevin Rudd
@MrKRudd
on need to distinguish between Xi's tone and meaning at Bali summit: "it would be foolish to conclude...that Xi has therefore shelved his aspiration to retake Taiwan"
#Taiwan
#Xi
#Biden
Why the U.S. hasn't joined the race for deep sea mining in international waters - CBS News John Bellinger: US has most to gain by joining UNCLOS and most to lose by staying outside
#UNCLOS
#seabedmining
#China
Amb Negroponte
@tshugart3
Jokowi vows 'no compromise' on Natuna standoff with China Indonesian President: "there is no compromise when it comes to our nation's territorial sovereignty"
How Jokowi bested China, while Duterte ended up a lackey
@Richeydarian
"The unmistakable lesson, it seems, is that China treats meek leaders such as Duterte with contempt, but will strike mutually beneficial deals with the likes of Jokowi"
Chinese ships spotted near Senkakus on 26 days in February | The Japan Times For the Record: top Japanese government spokesman described as “extremely serious” the current situation in which Chinese coast guard ships sail nearly daily near the Senkakus