A 50-year-old independent bookshop has announced it will close when its lease ends, following a raid by Hong Kong national security police earlier this month. Greenfield Book Store, located on Sai Yeung Choi Street in Mong Kok, took to social media during the early hours of Wednesday morning to announce its plans to close. “The shop will close down after the end of the lease. Thank you, everyone, for your support over the past 50 years since the shop opened. Thank you and take care,” the...
The Trump administration on Tuesday announced bans on imports of new Chinese robots and power inverters, citing threats to US national security and supply chain vulnerabilities. Without naming China, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expanded its Covered List to include two new categories of foreign-made equipment: advanced robotic devices and connected power inverters. The robotic devices included mobile robots, such as humanoids and quadrupeds. The action would ban the import and...
The Pentagon has added Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University to a list of foreign institutions deemed a threat to US national security, extending Washington’s research-security crackdown to two of China’s most prestigious civilian universities. The updated list identifies 88 institutions in mainland China and bars US Department of Defence-funded researchers from collaborating with them, or using their equipment, under restrictions taking effect in the 2026 financial year. The...
A 19-year-old in Hong Kong has been convicted of sedition for writing anti-government graffiti in a commercial building toilet, violating the city’s domestic national security law. West Kowloon Court on Wednesday rejected a defence psychiatrist’s opinion that a congenital mental disorder prevented Leung Kai-lok from understanding the offensive words he used against the government and police. Leung, 19, stood trial earlier this year before a magistrate hand-picked by the city leader to oversee...
Taiwan has cleared the way for overseas satellite internet providers such as Starlink to operate on the island – a move analysts said could strengthen military and civilian communications if conventional networks were disrupted in a conflict with mainland China. On Tuesday, the island’s legislature approved an amendment to the Telecommunications Management Act that would exempt satellite communications operators from foreign ownership caps and the requirement to have a Taiwanese chair. The...
A Hong Kong court has sentenced a man with an intellectual disability to two years and four months in prison for inciting subversion, promoting a pro-Taiwan party and disseminating anti-Communist Party messages, with the judge noting that his condition had affected his moral judgment. District Court Judge Stanley Chan Kwong-chi on Monday sentenced Chan Ho-hin, a 23-year-old waiter, who had earlier pleaded guilty to publishing 118 subversive messages on his social media accounts between June 27,...
Delegates representing a United States congressional advisory panel are making their first trip to China in seven years to investigate how the two countries’ economic and trade relationship affects national security. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission has requested meetings with Chinese government officials, academics and industry leaders in key technology sectors such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology and robotics. It said it would also meet with US diplomats and...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security cites national security risks from Indian and Chinese students and introduces changes in F, J and I categories of visas. PhD scholars, journalists, and exchange visitors will be impacted
The Defence Minister said India is well-positioned to hit a ₹3 lakh crore defence production milestone by 2029
A Philippine coastal defence project in Palawan could complicate Chinese operations near the Spratly Islands, but is unlikely to close Manila’s military gap with Beijing and could make one of the country’s most important naval hubs a more prominent target in a crisis, analysts have said. On Monday, the Puerto Princesa City Council approved a Department of National Defence proposal allowing the Armed Forces of the Philippines to establish Coastal Defence Regiment assets and logistical facilities...
Five Hong Kong booksellers arrested on suspicion of sedition have been released on bail two days after national security police raided a pair of independent bookshops where they worked. Police said the three women and two men, aged between 30 and 59, were released on Friday pending further investigation. A source earlier said the two bookstores involved were Have a Nice Stay bookshop in Prince Edward and Greenfield Book Store in Mong Kok. Media footage showed Sum Wan-wah, who was among a group...
The meeting held in New Delhi was hosted by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval
US President Donald Trump’s prime-time attack on China over alleged election interference marks a significant escalation in the rivalry between Washington and Beijing, elevating the issue from a cyber dispute to a broader national security confrontation, analysts say. “This speech is significant not simply because it criticises China. It is significant because it elevates alleged Chinese election interference to the level of a central national security narrative, comparable to how Russia was...
Hong Kong’s security chief has warned that booksellers are responsible for ensuring their titles do not violate national security legislation, a day after police raided two independent stores and arrested five people on suspicion of sedition. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung also reiterated on Thursday that the government would not compile a list of “banned books”, arguing that doing so would create loopholes where offenders could evade the law by simply changing a title. Tang’s...
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has threatened to deport any Israelis found at a self-styled “start-up society” in Johor, after online claims about the tech commune triggered a national security investigation. “We will not allow it,” Anwar told reporters on Wednesday. “If there are Israeli nationals, since we do not recognise Israel, they will be deported immediately.” The Network School, a co-living compound founded by former Coinbase executive Balaji Srinivasan in Forest City, came...
Japan plans to launch its first centralised intelligence body with help from Western allies.
Taiwan’s armed forces plan to outsource guard duties at military academies to private security firms in a pilot programme aimed at freeing up limited personnel for core combat missions. But the plan has triggered concerns that handing frontline access to civilian contractors could create new security vulnerabilities as the island grapples with a rise in espionage cases that the Taiwanese government claims are linked to Beijing. Under the two-stage programme, private guards will take over routine...
Islamabad cites national security concerns, returns thousands of undocumented migrants.
A new round of US-China dialogue on the risks of artificial intelligence, even just for the sake of dialogue, will be important for furthering US national security, according to former senior US officials responsible for China affairs. The assessment comes after the world’s two leading AI superpowers agreed to a new round of intergovernmental talks on AI safety following the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing in May, though few details about the dialogue have been announced. Jeannette Chu, one of the...
US President Donald Trump declared himself Iran’s ‘No. 1 target’ after claiming their leaders have been eliminated
Former officials warn that Trump's intelligence overhaul risks politicising national security.
The US Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday it is adding California-based Digitalsystem Technology to a list of companies posing risks to US national security, citing links to Chinese telecoms firms and its ownership by a Chinese national. The FCC also said it was denying the Los Angeles-based IT company permission to provide international telecommunications services, saying it could be exploited by Chinese threat actors. “There is significant risk that the government of China and...
Police arrest 10 suspects, seizing bladed weapons, military-style clothes and bomb‑making instructions.
Tusk says Poland is preparing for "various" scenarios after media reports of a planned Russian attack.
Congress MP says Vizhinjam project had failed to secure bidders several times under both UPA and NDA governments due to concerns over possible involvement of Chinese companies
A growing number of US lawmakers see the tax code as a way to shift corporate America’s reliance on Chinese technology, framing economic ties as a national security risk, seen most recently in a congressman’s comments on Thursday. Representative Nathaniel Moran said on Thursday that business leaders must remember China is an “adversary”, arguing that the American business world remains trapped in a “toxic relationship” with Beijing. Speaking at a Hudson Institute event, Moran highlighted...
Hong Kong police have stopped and searched 15 people in areas where July 1 protests were previously held, with one man wearing a T-shirt with political undertones taken away. The force said on Thursday that five men and 10 women, aged between 25 and 73, were stopped and searched in Wan Chai and the Eastern district the previous day, when the city marked the 29th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule. The date also marked the fifth anniversary of a stabbing attack in which a lone assailant...
China’s Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, passed in March, takes effect this month. It stands alongside the 1984 Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy as a foundational, comprehensive statute on ethnic affairs, placing the task of forging a strong sense of community squarely within the legal framework. Yet voices abroad have rushed to brand it an act of “transnational repression” and “long-arm jurisdiction”, training their fire on Article 63. Such claims borrow from the vocabulary of law but...