Frank Fang is a Taiwan-based journalist. He covers U.S., China, and Taiwan news. He holds a master's degree in materials science from Tsinghua University in Taiwan.
Eight China-based companies and eight Chinese nationals have been charged with federal crimes related to trafficking synthetic opioids and fentanyl precursors, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Oct. 24. The defendants “openly advertised their ability to thwart border officials,” used evasive tactics such as mislabeling the contents of shipments, and had shipped “a stable […]
Communist China’s officials will likely be more confident in countering the United States over the next decade, as the regime is pursuing the “most rapid expansion” of its nuclear arsenal in history, according to a new assessment published by the Pentagon’s intelligence agency on Oct. 23. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said in its 2024 […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan—A U.S. congressional delegation has arrived in Taiwan to meet with senior Taiwanese officials and participate in the island’s National Day celebrations on Oct. 10. Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) led the delegation, which arrived in Taiwan on Oct. 6 for a six-day visit, according to a press release from Taiwan’s foreign ministry. Lesko is […]
Federal prosecutors have charged five Chinese nationals with allegedly lying and trying to conceal their actions, more than a year after authorities spotted them near a remote Michigan military site where thousands of troops had gathered for summer drills. The five defendants, who were undergraduate students at the University of Michigan at the time of […]
The United States and four of its allies conducted joint maritime exercises in a part of the South China Sea on Saturday, as China held its own military exercises in the disputed ocean territory. The day-long exercise involving the United States, the Philippines, Australia, and Japan took place in Manila’s exclusive economic zone in the […]
WASHINGTON—A bipartisan House committee on China has prioritized legislation restricting U.S. investment in China, according to the panel’s chair. Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, said that U.S. investors should not be “funding our own demise.” “We have to have an outbound investment regime that basically […]
WASHINGTON—Communist China has gained “back-door access” to U.S. technologies through partnerships between academic research institutions over the past decade, with millions of dollars in U.S. funding indirectly going to advance Chinese military technology, according to a new congressional report. The report, a collaboration between Republicans on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party […]
President Joe Biden told leaders of Australia, India, and Japan that communist China is “testing us” with its aggression in the Indo-Pacific, a remark that was caught on a hot mic at a summit of the Quad alliance on Saturday. The summit, which Biden hosted near his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, was attended by Indian […]
The top Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee said “hostage diplomacy” is on the rise, a day after the Chinese regime released an American citizen and pastor who had been detained for nearly 20 years. The State Department announced on Sept. 15 that David Lin, who was on a missionary trip to China in 2006 […]
A former CIA officer who provided “a large volume” of classified U.S. national defense information to China was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Sept. 11. Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Hong Kong, was arrested in August 2020. In May, he pleaded guilty to conspiring to gather and deliver […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan—A local court released a former Taiwanese presidential candidate on Sept. 2, two days after he was arrested as part of a graft investigation. Ko Wen-je, who finished third in January’s presidential election as a candidate from the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), was arrested on Saturday after Taiwan’s Agency Against Corruption questioned him for […]
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday met with a senior Chinese military official in a bid to manage tensions brewing between China and U.S. treaty allies in the region. Sullivan met with General Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), which is China’s top military body helmed by the Chinese […]
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping on the third and final day of a rare visit to Beijing after holding talks with a senior Chinese military official on the same day. Sullivan’s visit to Beijing is the first such trip by a U.S. national security adviser […]
President Joe Biden and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping will speak in the “coming weeks,” the White House said, following two days of talks in China between national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. “Both sides welcomed ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of communication, including planning for a […]
The U.S.’s top security aide arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a three-day visit during which the world’s two largest economies seek to engage diplomatically amid China’s recent aggression—and U.S. condemnation thereof—in the South China Sea. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters ahead of a closed-door meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang […]
A Chinese dissident living in New York City has been charged for allegedly acting as a spy for the Chinese regime’s intelligence agency, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Tang Yuanjun, 67, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York, on Aug. 21 on charges of “acting and […]
Attorneys general from 21 states are demanding answers from Chinese budget online retailer Temu, questioning whether it has done enough to protect consumers from data privacy misuse and products made with illegal forced labor. “Temu’s business practices and apparent ties to the Chinese Communist Party are deeply concerning,” said Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen in […]
A U.S. Army intelligence analyst has pleaded guilty to charges that accuse him of selling military secrets to China for a total of $42,000, according to the Department of Justice. Sgt. Korbein Schultz was an army intelligence analyst with the First Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment at Fort Campbell, an army installation on the […]
China-owned video-sharing app TikTok is using its algorithms to suppress content exposing China’s human rights violations, in order to shape the views of its targeted users, according to a new study. Researchers from Rutgers University and the school’s Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) found that TikTok’s algorithms “actively suppress content critical of the Chinese Communist […]
An international group of lawmakers has condemned communist China for using “direct and indirect” coercive measures against those who took part in a recent summit in Taiwan. The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), an alliance of more than 200 lawmakers from 40 countries that focus on confronting the Chinese regime’s malign activities, such as human […]