Demetri @AsiaLens

US-China correspondent at FT・Chinese & Japanese speaker・Ex Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing & Dublin・Photographer at https://t.co/S6u3SctM1M demetrisevastopulo.com Washington DC Joined July 2009

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DPP U.S. Mission @TaiwanDPP_DC

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Taiwan and the US share a clear interest: keeping the world's most advanced chips out of PLA hands. Currently, a gap in the rules lets Chinese firms reach them through shell companies. Our thanks to @SenatorBanks and @SenatorAndyKim for their bipartisan call to close the loophole. taiwannews.com.tw/news/6380410

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Victor Shih @vshih2

4 hours ago

I am sure the former CEO of Norinco will have some enlightened solutions to the imbalance issue

Bloomberg @business

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Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing will join a video call Thursday with G7 countries to discuss trade imbalances bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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IISS News @IISS_org

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What’s it like to be a Young Leader at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue? Some of those who took part in this year’s IISS Shangri-La Dialogue Young Leaders' Programme share their personal experiences and substantive takeaways after four busy days of networking and discussion #SLDYoungLeaders #IISS_SLD26 | Find out more: go.iiss.org/SLDYLP26

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CSIS @CSIS

11 hours ago

In an episode of The Impossible State, @VictorDCha, @TheEdwardHowell, and @sydseiler discuss North Korea's relationships with the CRINK countries and implications for global security. Listen: csis.org/podcasts/impos…

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Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto

10 hours ago

Taiwan’s Representative to the U.S. Alexander Yui expresses confidence the U.S. will ultimately approve planned $14 billion arms sale: “It’s up to President Trump to decide. Once the review is done, we expect that the sale, that the announcement will be made because we need those arms to defend ourselves better.” @TECRO_USA

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Demetri @AsiaLens

10 hours ago

UK defence secretary resigns over spending plan ft.com/content/e29473… via @FT

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Demetri @AsiaLens

11 hours ago

Tune in today at 1.35pm EST 👇

CNAS @CNASdc

2 days ago

The Indo-Pacific is now, more than ever, a vital theater of competition—one in which U.S. allies could play a decisive role in deterring regional adversaries. @elyratner, @DavidFeith, @AmbVMKwatra, and @LisaCurtisDC will join @AsiaLens at the CNAS 2026 National Security

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Shashank Joshi @shashj

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A few thoughts on Healey's departure. At the end of the day, the root cause is a failed defence review process. The review proposed things on the basis that spending would rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2027, a relatively modest pace of growth that was & is incompatible with everything the UK wants to do—GCAP, AUKUS, a strategic reserve corps for NATO on land, carrier strike & more munitions/readiness. The gov't was unwilling either to make choices among these, which would have been politically and diplomatically painful, or to spend *significantly* more in the short & medium term, instead pointing to non-credible commitments out into the mid-2030s. There was and is no credible path to the 3.5% of GDP target by 2035 that the PM publicly agreed at the Hague last year. Now the UK is going to go into the Ankara summit in a weak position, with a teetering government, and with a likely successor to Starmer who is no more likely to support higher defence spending, all with predictable consequences for the US-UK relationship.

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Financial Times @FT

19 hours ago

FT Exclusive: France, Germany and other European nations are discussing proposals for a radical overhaul of the EU’s 15-year-old diplomatic service, including stripping powers from the bloc’s chief diplomat. ft.trib.al/Hskd8cT

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Alex Wickham @alexwickham

13 hours ago

BREAKING: JOHN HEALEY RESIGNS AS DEFENCE SECRETARY

John Healey @JohnHealey_MP

13 hours ago

My letter to the Prime Minister

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Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ

19 hours ago

KMT head Cheng Li-wun to @AsiaLens in New York: “Taiwan can never become or be reduced to a pawn traded away at a negotiating table by great powers…A lot of Taiwanese people are very concerned, hoping that Taiwan will not become the next Ukraine.” ft.com/content/4f667f…

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Ryan Hass @ryanl_hass

2 days ago

A fragile truce has been in place at Scarborough Shoal since 2016. This is a space to watch. reuters.com/world/china/ph…

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Mari Yamaguchi｜山口真理 @mariyamaguchi

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Yohei Kono, who apologized for Japan's wartime sexual abuses of 'comfort women,' dies at 89 @AP apnews.com/article/japan-…

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Demetri @AsiaLens

2 days ago

Interview with Taiwan’s opposition KMT party chair Cheng Li-wun 🇹🇼👇

Demetri @AsiaLens

2 days ago

#TaiwanInterview Taiwan’s opposition leader tells US and China not to use her country as ‘pawn’ Check out my piece on KMT chair Cheng Li-wun, a 2028 potential presidential contender who recently met Xi Jinping. 🇹🇼 as.ft.com/r/dc6782ae-603…

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Bill Bishop @niubi

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PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US | OpenAI “In this report, we describe two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from China that we banned after they used our models in support of apparent covert influence operations that promoted narratives in an attempt to manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and wider tech policies. openai.com/index/prc-link…

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Demetri @AsiaLens

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Donald Trump suggests he may not renew trade deal with Mexico and Canada ft.com/content/e55a6a… via @FT

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As someone who has participated in or directly observed US-China tech security negotiations since the Clinton Administration, there is zero chance of this happening, much less leading to meaningful agreement, if for no other reason than China doesn't share western AI hysteria

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Bill Bishop @niubi

2 days ago

Really rolling up people with a history under wang qishan. Makes sense, at least because so much corruption in financial system, wqs the “godfather” of that system for many years. Are one or more well-known fund managers next?

Caixin Global @caixin

2 days ago

Chao Kejian, a former head of the Chinese central bank’s anti-money laundering bureau has been taken away by authorities as part of an investigation, just weeks after a new appointment. caixinglobal.com/2026-06-10/chi…