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Robert McMillanRobert McMillan writes about computer security, hackers and privacy from The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau. Previously, he was a writer at Wired, the IDG News Service and Linux Magazine, where he covered cloud computing, business technology, bitcoin, artificial intelligence and open-source software. He was the host of Hack Me if You Can, a three-part podcast profile of the Russian hacker Dmitry Smilyanets, produced by the Journal.

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☆ As China Warns Taiwan, Here’s Where Frictions Stand
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Josh Chin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

During his first visit to Asia as commander-in-chief in May 2022, Mr. Biden was surprisingly blunt when asked whether the U.S. would get involved militarily in a Chinese attack on Taiwan after declining to send American troops to Ukraine to fight Russia’s invasion, saying, “Yes. That’s the commitment we made.”

☆ Trump Indictment: How a Potential Arrest Could Play Out
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Taiwan President Makes Transit Trip to U.S. Amid Tensions With China Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is in New York as she makes transit visits through the U.S. on her way to Central America. She is expected to meet House Speaker Kevin McCarthy next week. WSJ’s Josh Chin analyzes the significance of this trip. Photo: Yuki Iwamura/Associated Press

☆ China and Taiwan Relations Explained: What’s Behind the Divide
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Josh Chin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Days before being named president for an unprecedented third term, Chinese leader Xi Jinping let loose with an unusually blunt attack on what he said was a U.S.-led effort to contain China. At the top of Mr. Xi’s list of concerns is Washington’s relationship with Taiwan. Taiwan is a self-ruled island of 24 million people that China claims as its own. It is also a critical piece of Mr. Xi’s goal of restoring China’s standing as a great power. The Chinese leader has said taking control of the island is a task that “should not be passed down from generation to generation.”

☆ China Rejects Energy Department’s Lab Leak Theory of Covid’s Origin
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Josh Chin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

China’s government rejected a U.S. Energy Department assessment that the Covid-19 pandemic likely originated with a lab leak, accusing the agency of engaging in a political smear. The Energy Department, which had previously been undecided on the origins of the pandemic, recently joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

The White House said there is no consensus within the Biden administration over the origins of the Covid-19 virus, a day after the disclosure of an Energy Department assessment that the pandemic most likely originated with a leak from a Chinese lab. The Energy Department, which had previously been undecided on the origins of the pandemic, recently joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

Liza LinLiza Lin covers Asia technology news for The Wall Street Journal from Singapore, focusing mostly on China, the internet, supply chains and surveillance. In 2021, Liza was part of a team at the Journal that was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting, for their coverage of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Liza, alongside other Journal reporters, won the Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting in 2018 for a series of stories on China's surveillance state. Liza is the co-author with Journal colleague Josh Chin of the book "Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control." A Fulbright scholar, she has also worked for Bloomberg News in Singapore and China.

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☆ China Turns to Well-Worn Playbook to Keep Protesters Off Streets
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Sha Hua | Josh Chin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nearly a week after protests exploded across China over the country’s zero-tolerance Covid controls, Chinese authorities have restored a tense calm to the streets with a two-pronged strategy. Chinese leaders have moved to address the demands of protesters by signaling an easing of the country’s strict Covid policies. At the same time, police have deployed en masse to the sites of protests and hunted down activists, one by one, using the tools of the digital surveillance state.

China’s top diplomat signaled that Chinese leader Xi Jinping , fresh from extending his power for a norm-breaking third term, intends to double-down on his tight relationship with Russia’s Vladimir Putin—driving an even deeper wedge between the two authoritarian rulers and the West. In a Thursday phone call with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov , Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing wants to deepen its relationship with Moscow “at all levels,” according to a readout published by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs late that night.

☆ China’s Xi Jinping Likely to Pack Party Leadership With Allies in Show of Strength
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Josh Chin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is preparing to name loyalists to top positions in the Communist Party hierarchy, according to people close to party leaders, in a move that would strengthen his hand as he confronts mounting challenges at home and abroad—from a sluggish domestic economy to Western resistance to Beijing’s ambitions on the world stage. One of the allies Mr. Xi aims to promote is Li Qiang, currently the top party official in Shanghai, the people said. Earlier this year, Mr. Li shouldered blame for a weekslong Covid-19 lockdown during which tens of millions of residents in the country’s financial center struggled to access food and medical care.

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