Month: January 2023

If you would like to receive China Brief in your inbox every Wednesday, please sign up here . The highlights this week: Prominent Chinese diplomat Zhao Lijian gets moved out of the public eye, the U.S. Congress forms a new committee on strategic competition with Beijing, and China-South Korea relations […]

But showing up in Southeast Asia was not the only way the administration stepped up its engagement. In May, Biden hosted a historic U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit at the White House, bringing together nearly all ASEAN leaders. (Myanmar’s junta leader was not invited , and then-Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte did not […]

The skyscrapers fade from view in the gentle light of dusk, but around the Taiwanese island things are far from peaceful these days. Out in the Taiwan Strait, near-daily incursions of Chinese military aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone have continued unabated since former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi […]

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has unanimously condemned the terrorist attack at a synagogue in East Jerusalem that claimed 8 lives and left 10 people injured. During an emergency session on January 28 that was scheduled to discuss a deadly IDF raid in the Palestinian city of Jenin, at […]

And TikTok collects a lot: It can access users’ names, ages, phone numbers, email addresses, details about the devices and mobile networks they’re using, keystrokes, messages on the app, and even biometric information such as “faceprints and voiceprints,” according to the app’s privacy policy. TikTok’s algorithm also tracks what users […]

If you would like to receive Morning Brief in your inbox every weekday, please sign up here . Welcome to today’s Morning Brief, where we’re looking at warnings from the World Health Organization , backlash against the new Israeli government’s judicial plans , and the forestalled eviction of tens of […]

Petr Pavel, a retired army general, defeated populist billionaire Andrej Babis in a runoff vote on Saturday to become the new Czech president. Pavel, 61, will succeed controversy-courting Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial but prestigious post. With the ballots from 99.5 per cent of polling stations counted by the […]

Among the signals confirming this coming decline and predictions of its consequences that were cited in other press reports were that India would soon surpass China as the world’s most populous nation and that the decrease in China’s demographic numbers might mean that it would have a much harder time […]

The United States Air Force general, Gen. Michael A. Minihan, has made shocking and explosive claims that the US Army could be at war with the Chinese PLA two years from now. In an internal memo dispatched to US troops under his command, Minihan predicted the timeline of a potential […]

If you would like to receive Morning Brief in your inbox every weekday, please sign up here . Welcome to today’s Morning Brief, where we’re looking at predictions of global recession , tensions in Kashmir , and a Ukrainian attack on Russian forces in Donetsk. Welcome to today’s Morning Brief, […]