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🇬🇧 British Foreign Secretary David Lammy expressed strong disagreement over the repatriation of 40 Uyghurs to China from Thailand. The remarks are "hype by the UK side", a spokesperson at China's embassy in London said. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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🏛️ The British Museum removed the term “Xizang” from its labeling of Tibetan artifacts after rights groups and Tibetans living in the United Kingdom criticised the use of the Beijing-promoted place name. www.rfa.org/english/tibe...

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😈 China’s defence ministry spokesperson has warned Taiwan “we will come and get you, sooner or later”, after Taipei announced an expansion of military exercises. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Today is the 78th anniversary of the 2/28 incident. Taiwanese people fought for self-determination, only to be punished with three decades of martial law. Democracy would win, but at a steep price. We must keep fighting against threats to our liberty, foreign and domestic.

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☁️ Taipei is shifting critical public systems and government data to global cloud platforms, and turning global cloud providers Microsoft, Google, and Amazon into partners in national resilience. www.aspistrategist.org.au/states-vulne...

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🇹🇼 Taiwan's representative in Canberra urges closer intelligence sharing and co-operation following concerns about China's intention in sending warships near Australia. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/890455...

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An excellent piece by @aspi-org.bsky.social CTS Data Scientist Stephan Robin on how Big Tech is falling in line with Trump—parsing which shifts were already in motion and which are pure pandering. Well worth a read. aspicts.substack.com...

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🦘 Beijing has signalled a remarkable shift in approach towards Canberra, one that appears aimed at bolstering the Australian Labor Party's prospects in the looming federal election. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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The Chinese ambassador to Australia has signalled Beijing will conduct further naval deployments close to Australia, saying it's "normal" for a major power to send naval assets across the world. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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🏳️ Donald Trump declined to comment in response to a question about whether the United States would ever allow China to take control of Taiwan by force. "I never comment on that," Trump said at the White House. "I don't want to ever put myself in that position." www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

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🀄 China has agreed to consider thinking about maybe if it has time having concerns that its military did not give enough notice before staging live-fire exercises in the waters between New Zealand and Australia last week, the foreign minister of New Zealand said Wednesday. apnews.com/article/chin...

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💥 In this time of “transformation and turbulence,” China has a vision for a “safer world,” its top diplomat told G20 counterparts as he reiterated Beijing’s pitch for “a new path to security” without alliances, “zero-sum” competition and “bloc confrontation.” edition.cnn.com/2025/02/26/c...

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🇨🇰 Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown survived a vote of no confidence in parliament brought by the opposition over deals he struck with China that strained relations with New Zealand. www.channelnewsasia.com/world/cook-i...

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😭 Beijing has said that Taiwan was "manipulating" possible Chinese involvement in the latest severing of an undersea communications cable, saying the island was casting aspersions before the facts were clear. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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😏 Australian defence officials believe a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine likely accompanied the People's Liberation Army-Navy flotilla during its deployment off Australia's coast. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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🔫 China's military held "shooting training" off Taiwan's southwest coast in a move Taipei described as provocative and dangerous, while a senior Chinese leader vowed unswerving efforts to bring the island under Beijing's control. www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-h...

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🤥 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been accused of misleading the public by arguing a Chinese naval task group gave “notice” of a live fire drill off Australia’s east coast when it provided no advance warning of the exercise. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/defen...

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🇹🇬 Taiwan detains Chinese-crewed ship after subsea cable cut: The Togolese-registered ship Hongtai was "escorted" back to Taiwan and the case was being "handled in accordance with national security-level principles", the coast guard said in a statement. www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/ta...

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⚓️ China will keep conducting dangerous military maneuvers against us and other countries in the South China Sea; its actions will continue to differ from its words; and it is likely to send advanced Chinese warships to our region more often and for longer. www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-ships...

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⚠️ Air traffic authorities only discovered Chinese warships were conducting a live-fire exercise in the Tasman Strait 30 minutes after it began thanks to an alert by a Virgin pilot rather than a warning from government officials. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

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🐋 Widespread integration of Chinese AI systems into products and services carries serious data, privacy, governance, censorship, interference and espionage risks. These risks are unlikely to go away, and few government strategies will be able to keep up. www.aspistrategist.org.au/deepseek-is-...

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💻 Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's H20 artificial intelligence chip due to booming demand for DeepSeek's low-cost AI models, six people familiar with the matter said. www.reuters.com/technology/a...

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📈 China has moved to ban authorities from imposing fines on businesses without a legal basis in the latest draft of a new private-economy promotion law, as the country’s leaders step up efforts to boost confidence in the private sector and shore up economic growth. www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

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⏳ Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal of three years of American policy toward Ukraine has raised concerns China might become emboldened to push its territorial claim on Taiwan, though experts say Beijing is most likely in a wait-and-see mode right now. apnews.com/article/trum...

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🦘For a couple of decades, Australia has talked about “balancing” its biggest trading relationship against its main security relationship. Implication? That we can have both China and the US just as we want them. Today we can see that we can be confident of neither. www.smh.com.au/world/asia/a...

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🤖 For years, Shenzhen has been synonymous with Chinese innovation. But as the tech race expands, the sudden rise of a new cohort of start-ups has thrust their home base, Hangzhou, onto the scene. www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

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🇳🇿 New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters will touch down in Beijing for a three-day visit as relations between the two countries are strained after Chinese Navy vessels conducted live firing exercises in the Tasman Sea. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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🐟 Thousands of miles from home, North Koreans work on Chinese tuna longliners in the Indian Ocean for pay that goes to their leader, a new study says. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...

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🇺🇦 Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has pledged to continue to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine as the Russia-Ukraine war rages on. www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6043931

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🤝 Thousands of kilometres of ocean separate Banula Marika's Yolŋu people from the original custodians of the Pacific island of Taiwan — but despite vast distances between them, they've found something shared. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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🎁 Activity by Chinese military ships in the Tasman sea is a "gift from Beijing" to a government trying to persuade the public of the need to spend more on defence, says a defence expert. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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🚔 Why China may face ‘scrutiny’ over using police diplomacy to help developing world: From freeing scam centre victims to sharing police techniques, China is looking to expand its influence and protect citizens overseas. www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

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👀 Australia’s spy chief made a secret visit to China to meet the country’s top intelligence officials in an unprecedented effort to open up channels of backdoor communication amid major tensions between Beijing and Canberra. www.smh.com.au/national/asi...

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🪖 A “big budget” investment in defence has been signalled by New Zealand Defence Minister Judith Collins who says “we clearly need to step up our game” in light of China's live firing exercises in the Tasman Sea. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

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🇳🇿 New Zealand had to do more to defend itself and the Pacific. Funnelling more money into defence should be top priority after successive governments had "depleted" the force, meaning New Zealand could "barely respond" to China's challenge. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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🦇 Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China said they discovered a new coronavirus in bats that enters cells using the same gateway as the virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday spread to humans. www.smh.com.au/world/asia/c...

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🇺🇳 A group of US Congress members introduced a resolution to reject China's use of United Nations Resolution 2758 and the "One China" policy endorsed by the United States and its partners to assert its territorial claims over Taiwan. focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

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📦 The US has released US$5.3 billion in previously frozen aid funding, including money for Taiwan and other security concerns, according to media reports. www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6043261

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🇩🇪 Front runner for Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has long been expected to take a hawkish stance, but Trump and electoral maths may limit his room for manoeuvre. www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

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⚠️ China conducts second live-fire drill near New Zealand: Report from New Zealand navy personnel comes a day after similar drill forced multiple airlines to change flight paths between Australia and New Zealand. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says we “haven't actually been informed by the Chinese government as to why this task group is here”, referring to the naval group of three vessels operating near Australia. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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A day after China warned its three military ships would be live weapons testing between New Zealand and Australia, the Cook Islands has today released a controversial agreement indicating Beijing has secured a maritime presence there. www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/22/c...

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Xi Jinping tells entrepreneurs ‘east wind’ will carry China above rivals: The president evoked a Mao Zedong slogan to reiterate his confidence in China’s economic triumph at a high-profile meeting on the private sector. www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

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OpenAI said that it had uncovered evidence that a Chinese security operation had built an artificial intelligence-powered surveillance tool to gather real-time reports about anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t...

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Commercial pilots have been warned of a potential hazard in airspace between Australia and New Zealand, where three Chinese warships are conducting military exercises. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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China supports the “recent consensus” the US and Russia have reached on ending the war in Ukraine, the country’s top diplomat said. China has been one of the Kremlin’s most important allies during its assault on Ukraine. www.politico.eu/article/chin...

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