Lyle Morris
@LyleJMorris
Senior Fellow for Foreign Policy and National Security at @AsiaPolicy’s Center for China Analysis. Previous @DOD_Policy; @RANDCorporation; @NBRNews; @CSIS.
PLA Watch is live! PLA Watch is a new @AsiaPolicy monthly newsletter from the Center for China Analysis, delivering insights into the latest developments in Chinese military affairs. Drawing from primary Chinese-language sources, it tracks the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) —…
NEWS: @SecDef Pete Hegseth, Philippine President Meet to Advance Deterrence in Indo-Pacific defense.gov/News/News-Stor…
Faced with intensifying Chinese encroachment at sea, the Philippines increasingly sees its national security as intertwined with that of Taiwan and is quietly ramping up both formal and informal engagement with the self-governing island. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…
All 24 lawmakers of the main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) up for recall Saturday survived their recall votes, ensuring that the KMT along with Taiwan People's Party (TPP) lawmakers will maintain opposition control of the Legislature.
That’s a lot of words to say the PRC has never governed or administered Taiwan since 1949.
A propagandist article published in the Chinese edition of 🇨🇳 CCP-owned People’s Daily (人民日报) on July 23 says “中华人民共和国从未统治过台湾”的谬论当休矣 (it’s time to put an end to the fallacy that the PRC has never ruled Taiwan) in the headline. 👇🏻 paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/pc/conten……
If you're interested in monitoring the movements of the PLA but don’t know where to begin, 《OSINT on the PLA: How to Track China's Military Activities Using Open-Source Intelligence》（請支援搜尋！你也可以用公開資訊破解共軍行動！）is the perfect book to start. 1/3
China has exit-banned two U.S. citizens in recent months: A Wells Fargo banker and a Chinese American who works for the Commerce Department. Separately, it sentenced a Japanese executive to more than three years’ imprisonment for espionage. nytimes.com/2025/07/20/bus…
U.S.-Based Wells Fargo Banker Blocked From Leaving China wsj.com/world/china/we… Chenyue Mao, a Shanghai-born and Atlanta-based U.S. citizen who is a managing director at Wells Fargo, was subjected to an exit ban after she entered China sometime in recent weeks, according to…
The Chinese military employed a laser targeting a German aircraft in the EU operation #ASPIDES. Endangering German personnel & disrupting the operation is entirely unacceptable. The Chinese ambassador was summoned to the Federal Foreign Office today.
Today, CSDS was extremely pleased to join forces with the Centre for China Analysis (@AsiaPolicy) to organise an event in Brussels on "Strategic Shifts: Europe-China Relations in a Fragmenting World". A more than timely discussion! More info🔸 csds.vub.be/event/strategi…
The China Navy Leadership Bookshelf bit.ly/PLANBookshelf Since Xi assumed power in 2012, an extraordinary array of flag & general officers, as well as defense industry leaders, has been removed. By my running tally, this includes: ⚓ 15+ senior military officials & defense…
The June issue of PLA Watch is out! This month’s issue tracks developments in China’s expanding military footprint, institutional alignment, and defense modernization. The PLA Navy’s first-ever dual-carrier deployment beyond the second island chain signals growing blue-water…
The China Summer Summit 2025 is happening on July 9 in Paris, co-hosted by @AsiaSocietyFR, @SalzburgGlobal, and @AsiaPolicy's #CenterforChinaAnalysis. Join top #China analysts, investors, academics, and cultural figures as they share insights on China's foreign policy, economy,…
Besides the expulsion of Miao, which was expected, what is more noteworthy is the expulsion of Vice Admiral Li Hanjun, chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army Navy, and Liu Shipeng, deputy chief engineer at state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation, from the National…
The May issue of PLA Watch is out! This month’s issue tracks the PLA Air Force’s first long-range joint exercise in Egypt and its largest-ever bilateral drill with Cambodia, underscoring China’s growing expeditionary capabilities; the Liaoning carrier group’s first training…
Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Maliuk delivered a report regarding today’s operation. An absolutely brilliant result. A result achieved solely by Ukraine. One year, six months, and nine days from the start of planning to effective execution. Our most long-range…
🚨 Secretary Hegseth just delivered a major speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue. He clearly outlined what President Trump's common sense, Peace Through Strength approach means for U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific. Here are some key quotes: 🧵(1/23)
Please join me Thursday morning at 9am US EST for an @AsiaPolicy webinar with @PhLeCorre and @akshmathur on how China and India are navigating relations with the EU. A lot going on in this space. Looking forward to the discussion.
With the shifting global order, how are India and China vying for influence with the European Union? 🇪🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳 Join us this Thursday for a discussion on the current state of EU-China and EU-India relations, with our experts @PhLeCorre, @akshmathur, and @LyleJMorris.
Quick Look Summary from @NavalWarCollege/@ChinaMaritime Studies Institute’s 14–15 May 2025 Conference: bit.ly/CMSI2025 “The People of China’s Navy & Other Maritime Forces” andrewerickson.com/2025/05/quick-… Background: #CMSI held its biennial unclassified academic conference on…
In @ForeignAffairs I look at how China views and approaches US extended deterrence and I lay out how the US should respond: @PacificForum foreignaffairs.com/china/end-exte…