A group of Chinese H-6K bombers recently flew near Taiwan to practice “confrontation drills”, Chinese state media reported late on Sunday (October 26, 2025), publicising the action just a few days before the U.S. and Chinese presidents are due to meet in South Korea. www.thehindu.com/news/interna...

Amazing news! "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China" was just selected by Little Venice Film Festival (London 22-28 October) via FilmFreeway.com!

A big thanks to @bglaser.bsky.social & the folks at @gmfus.bsky.social for reaching out & taking the time to talk about SEAsian relations with 🇨🇳, with all its various complications. #SoutheastAsia #ASEAN #China #PRC www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mjk...

Spoke on air about the 1st 2 days of 🇸🇬‘s 15th Parliament. #Singapore #Politics www.awedio.sg/podcast-ep/0...

The casualties were caused by airstrikes and shelling used to provide cover for a flotilla returning to Mandalay from Bhamo in southern Kachin State Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/16-c...

📰 @waiwainu.bsky.social on #Myanmar junta's sham elections: "This is not an exit strategy, this is a trap. We need to understand that this will only prolong the violence & the conflict, and the junta's disastrous strategy in the country." #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

My book "Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation" is out! I am incredibly grateful for such kind endorsements from @DafyddFell , @chongjaian.bsky.social and @josephwongut.bsky.social. Pre-orders are arriving now, and it is available in the link below!

For the final installment of this season of @carnegieendowment.org Carnegie China's China in the World podcast, looking at how different East Asian states approach relations w/🇨🇳, I am thrilled to have Natalie Sambhi & @yohanessulaiman.bsky.social join me. carnegieendowment.org/podcasts/chi...

Delighted @sungeunkim.bsky.social & Injoo Sohn took the time to speak about how🇰🇷manages ties w/🇨🇳on the latest episode of Carnegie China's China in the World podcast. Brought to you by @carnegieendowment.org carnegieendowment.org/podcasts/chi...

A trade union in Taiwan has exposed how brokers are trying to block migrant workers from unionizing, even to the extent of beating them up. focustaiwan.tw/society/2025...

Just in time for National Day! Shared my take on🇸🇬f’gn policy & strategy w/ Michael Green of CSIS. Struck by how large LKY still looms when people think abt🇸🇬’s external relations. That approach existed in a specific context which has now significantly changed. podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/t...

“An astonishing book that [reveals] the dismal implications for young Chinese women in light of the campaign to push them into marriage before the age of 26.” Read the full review of @letahongfincher.bsky.social's‬ ‘Leftover Women’ in the LA Review of Books. bit.ly/3GGutBM

In latest episode of the China in the World podcast from Carnegie China @carnegieendowment.org, I speak w/ Khoo Ying Hooi & Shahriman Lockman abt🇲🇾's efforts to juggle its ties w/🇨🇳, a situation complicated w/ the tariffs from the Trump admin. Do tune in! carnegieendowment.org/podcasts/chi...

Sharing the latest episode of the China in the World podcast from Carnegie China @carnegieendowment.org featuring Huong Le Thu & Nguyen Khac Giang, where we discuss 🇻🇳-🇨🇳 relations. It is part of our latest 5 episode season looking at how various states manage their economic and security ties w/ the🇨🇳.

154th Mekong River joint patrol concludes – Xinhua: ‘Law enforcement authorities from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand’

Chinese human rights delegation visits Greece, promotes exchanges – Xinhua

Thanks to @ProspectF for inviting me to reflect on🇸🇬’s external relations following its 2025 general elections. Terima kasih Yayasan Prospek untuk mengundang saya direnung tentang hubungan luar🇸🇬setelah pilihan raya tahun 2025. 感謝遠景基金會讓我對2025年大選後🇸🇬外交做些反思。 #Singapore #ForeignPolicy #GE2025

Chinese government officials are going at great lengths to protect jobs even as worsening profitability across companies has reached the highest level in over two decades – Bloomberg: ‘Xi Jinping is trying to clean up his economy without triggering mass layoffs.’

Glad to announce a new season of @carnegieendowment.org Carnegie China's China in the World podcast. In this season, I look at how countries juggle economic & security concerns in interactions w/🇨🇳. We start off w/🇯🇵. Joining me are Ayumi Teraoka & Akira Igata. carnegieendowment.org/podcasts/chi...

Thanks to MASSA & SSEAC for the invitation to speak about 🇸🇬’s GE2025 & for putting the conversation online! #Singapore #GE2025 #Elections youtu.be/lRvh7hdKxQ8

Always happy to see a new publication. Thanks to He Kai & Liu Feng for putting the volume together. #ASEAN #China #IndoPacific

Thanks to Mynah Mag for reaching out. Always glad to speak and hang out with @kixes, Ruby, Jialiang & the rest of the Mynah Mag crew! Even better when we are chatting politics & elections in 🇸🇬! open.spotify.com/episode/4sJj...

Here’s AcademiaSG’s resource page for 🇸🇬’s 2025 general elections! #GE2025 www.instagram.com/stories/acad...

Chinese nationals fighting for Russia in Ukraine are mercenaries without direct links, US officials say – Reuters: ‘Chinese military officers have, however, been in the theater behind Russia's lines with Beijing's approval to draw tactical lessons from the war, the former official told Reuters.’

The Chinese-born entrepreneur at the centre of a Singapore server-computer fraud case helps to run more than a dozen companies with ties to tech leaders including AI-chip provider Nvidia – Bloomberg: ‘one of three men charged by Singapore authorities’

Come election time in 🇸🇬 there are often lots of claims & some confusion. My colleagues at AcademiaSG & I try to provide some basic non-partisan explainers. Here’s one on “Freak Elections” by Cherian George. www.facebook.com/share/v/196H...

Quite wonderful find by this FT team. A Chinese small business that makes MAGA merch on.ft.com/4cAH6tE

Happy to have spent my Sunday evening supporting civic education with AcademiaSG colleague Cherian George, former Nominated Member of Parliament Anthea Ong & fellow political scientist Walid J. Abdullah. Catch it here! www.youtube.com/live/Pr5oqxS...

The People’s Power Party is the first to publish their manifesto for #GE2025 in #Singapore. Their campaign slogan for this year takes a leaf out of Trump’s playbook: “Make Singapore Home Again”.

How Elon Musk’s US military contractor SpaceX secretly allows investment from China – ProPublica: ‘buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs’

TBH it really looks like a bunch of Russians hiding out in #SoutheastAsia, evading conscription. myanmar-now.org/en/news/russ...

Leaked data exposes a Chinese AI censorship machine – TechCrunch: ‘133,000 examples fed into a sophisticated large language model that’s designed to automatically flag any piece of content considered sensitive by the Chinese government.’

Use our "X Misleading and Manipulated Media Dashboard" to see other examples of fake Mark Carney pics. (Just type Carney or Grok into the search bar.) cn.deepfakestracker.org

“A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.”

"The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains undocumented commands that could be leveraged for attacks." www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Julie Bishop, UN Special Envoy on Myanmar, is engaged with biz like Energy Transition Minerals, where she's now a strategic Advisor for a controversial Greenland uranium & rare earths mining project linked to Chinese state-owned companies involved in Myanmar. buff.ly/9esvya9

“If we round up and torture those involved in vote fraud, we will get their confession. Get some baseball bats, cable ties and blindfolds ready,” Mr. Noh instructed, according to the prosecutors’ indictment. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Read: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Again as a Fulbright alum I want to stress how utterly terrified I would have been living in China as a 22 year old alone without money or a way home. Canceling the program is awful and short-sighted enough, but this kind of chaos is so deeply cruel while accomplishing absolutely nothing

The administration said it was cancelling grants and other federal awards for Columbia for an alleged failure to protect Jewish students from antisemitism.

New piece out today with Asian Perspective. Thanks to Brian Fong for putting together the special issue & Hung Ho-Fung for overseeing the process. Honored to be appearing w/ colleagues 吳介民 , Deborah Brautigam, Thomas Fingar, David Lampton, 查道炯 (& more!) in the same issue. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54346

Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.

Some of the best tech reporters + editors out there were laid off from @wsj.com yesterday. When I say these folks are not only incredibly knowledgeable but also kind and a joy to work with, I mean it. If you’re hiring, don’t miss the chance to snatch them up. talkingbiznews.com/media-news/h...

Sharing some thoughts about 🇸🇬‘s situation in the current global environment. www.academia.sg/academic-vie...

Dependency on Starlink casually weaponized by US administration. Conclusions for Europe and anyone else in orbit of former US-led alliance should be crystal clear. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

What does this mean for #Taiwan and the status quo? Join us on Thursday morning (Wednesday night US time) to discuss these developments with a fantastic lineup of experts! @chongjaian.bsky.social @frank11285.bsky.social Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Tesla uses Chinese courts to silence critics and make them pay – AP: ‘Tesla has sued at least six car owners in China who had sudden vehicle malfunctions, quality complaints or accidents they claimed were caused by mechanical failures.’ ‘sued at least six bloggers and two Chinese media outlets’

The latest article I wrote (about incels in Singapore) is also the one that has triggered the most hate mail and online harassment in my entire career in journalism so far! If you're curious about what in the article could be making folks so mad, read the full story here:

Trump and Musk keep justifying their moves as combating fraud, but they have been unable so far to point to much of anything specific that’s actually fraudulent, by Aaron Blake www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...