- Taiwan Detains Chinese Oil Tanker. For allegedly illegal entry into its territorial waters, Taiwanese media report, adding that the six-member crew has been arrested.
- China targeting U.S. election infrastructure with cyberattacks, White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien. “China - like Russia, like Iran - they’ve engaged in cyberattacks and phishing and that sort of thing with respect to our election infrastructure, with respect to websites and that sort of thing.”
- Chinese fighter jets cross Taiwan Strait median line amid US official visit. One day after U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar landed in Taiwan.
- 1998: Chinese Army Funds Went to Democrats, Donor Johnny Chien Chuen Chung Says. Chinese army was the source of a large part of the $100,000 in Democratic contributions he made before the 1996 presidential election. A lieutenant colonel in the People’s Liberation Army provided some of the money he gave to the party and that the money originated in the Chinese military.
- Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under new national security law.Leading pro-democracy figure detained over alleged foreign collusion as police search Apple Daily offices.
- 2018: Democratic super PAC hits jackpot with Chinese company stock.$5,402,259: Value of 21,635 shares of Baidu Inc. — a Chinese technology behemoth with reported ties to China’s Communist Party — that California physician Karla Jurvetson donated to Women Vote!, the super PAC branch of abortion rights group Emily’s List.
