Day: January 21, 2023

Maj. Tom Mouat watches with dismay. This is not how things usually play out. “We’ve got to a shooting war, which is really depressing,” he said. The British war-gaming expert has run this simulation before. Normally, when pitting Beijing’s ambitions of control against its democratic neighbor’s commitment to self-governance, conflict […]

More than half of passengers on at least two flights from China to Italy have tested positive for COVID-19, Guido Bertolaso, Lombardy regional councillor for welfare, told in a news conference. This comes as China prepared to open up its borders and lift the restrictions under its stringent Zero COVID […]

This past November, for the first time since the Galwan clashes, the two leaders met again, this time in Bali, Indonesia, as India assumed the G-20 presidency. Within a few weeks of their handshake, Chinese troops carried out another offensive , this time to occupy a mountain post in the […]

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 […]

In response to Chinese military exercises near its shores last year, Japan is expanding a military base on the island of Yonaguni, located 110 km from Taiwan and near the Senkaku Islands (also known as the Diaoyu Islands) which are claimed by Beijing but administered by Tokyo, as per a […]

Laura is one of many pro-democracy students in the Chinese diaspora who must exercise caution around their Chinese peers, worried that nationalistic students will harass or isolate them—or worse, report them to authorities back home. Laura fears that if her identity is revealed, her family will be “arrested and tortured […]