Yuichiro Kakutani is a reporter at the Washington Free Beacon. He recently graduated from Cornell University, where he studied government and history. He previously served as editor for The Cornell Daily Sun. He's a proud New Yorker — and by that he means, New York City. He can be reached at kakutani@freebeacon.com.
Chinese hackers shut down a "large swathe of India's power sector" after deadly border skirmishes in the Himalayas, according to a U.S. cybersecurity company.
A top State Department nominee is a defender of the Confucius Institute, a Chinese government program that disseminates pro-Beijing propaganda on American college campuses. 
Congressional Republicans are demanding answers from the Carter Center for its collaboration with Chinese government-backed entities as part of a wider effort to crack down on Chinese influence-peddling efforts in the United States.
A fellow at the Quincy Institute said the charge that China is committing genocide is a "far-right" talking point, the latest pro-China comment from an isolationist think tank with a history of downplaying China's threat to the United States. 
Federal records show the U.S. government is partnering with the Wuhan Institute of Virology even though the Trump administration pledged to ban funding for the Chinese laboratory located at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
The Chinese government banned the BBC from broadcasting on the Chinese mainland for the next year after the media outlet published stories about human rights abuses in China. 
The Biden administration "indefinitely" paused discussions with TikTok to sell the company to American investors, a significant victory for a tech firm that employs an army of D.C. lobbyists, including some with ties to the Biden team. 
U.C. Berkeley received millions from China to operate a big data research center that advised the Chinese government, as well as fund cutting-edge research into automated cars. 
The University of Michigan refused to turn over public documents related to its $25 million research partnership with China unless it receives more than $1,200 in fees, an "extreme" request that experts said prevents transparency. 
Activists said that President Joe Biden ignored the actual concerns of Asian Americans when he signed a "pandering" executive order against anti-Asian coronavirus rhetoric that failed to mention affirmative action policies that discriminate against Asians. 