By Preston Cheung and Venisa Wai
By Jaewoong Yoon
By Elizabeth Chien-Hale
By Tan Hsien-Li
By José E. Alvarez
By Yoichiro Hamabe
By Bing Ling
By Yu-Jie Chen
By Jacques deLisle
By Peter Dutton
By Richard Bush
By Eungi Hong
By Railla Puno
By Hualing Fu
By Aaron Halegua and Yifu Dong
By Sejong Youn
By Matthew S. Erie
January 11- January 17
China’s Commerce Ministry says stronger export controls and supply chain security are top priorities for 2026; Hong Kong’s High Court hears arguments about how severe a sentence to give former Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai; the prime ministers of Japan and South Korea - which have had rocky relations in recent years - agree to increase cooperation in economic security, AI, defense, crime fighting, and other areas; South Korean prosecutors ask that impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol be given the death penalty for declaring martial law in 2024; and Taiwan’s opposition-dominated legislature opens public hearings on impeaching President Lai Ching-te as the legislature and executive remain locked in a standoff over the allocation of government funds.