China-Japan relations + Hacking attack + Clean energy boom
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MERICS China Essentials Feb 12, 2026 11 min read China-Japan relations + Hacking attack + Clean energy boom Top story Japan elections: Support for counterbalancing China’s ambitions in the region Asahi Shinbum: Big election win would give Takaichi clout to counter ChinaBBC: Japanese stocks surge as Takaichi secures historic election victoryCNN: She’s one of the world’s most powerful conservative leaders – and she just won againSankei Shinbum (JP China on alert over constitutional revision after Takaichi administration’s landslide victoryThe New York Times: Japan’s leader wins in a landslide, clearing way for hard-line agenda METRIX 9.5 billion Topics China-linked hackers exploit trusted open-source software for targeted attacks Rapid 7: The Chrysalis backdoor: A deep dive into Lotus Blossom’s toolkitNotepad++: Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers Securelist: Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown Techno-solutionism for rural development will miss its mark without structural reforms Xinhua: Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Anchoring Agricultural and Rural Modernization and Solidly Advancing the Comprehensive Revitalization of Rural AreasChina Daily: Tech cultivating China's rural vitalizationDutch Ministry of Agriculture: Rural Revitalization in China: Highlights of the No. 1 Central Document (2024) Green is gold: China’s clean energy boom is driving its economy Wired: China’s renewable energy revolution is a huge mess that might save the world The Guardian: ‘There is only one player’: why China is becoming a world leader in green energy | EnvironmentCarbon Brief: Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 Profile Hong Kong: 78-year-old Jimmy Lai could spend the rest of his life in prison The Little Red Podcast: Hong Kong: Anything we say could be a crimeThe Economist: Tycoon troublemaker: the rise and fall of Jimmy Lai Hong Kong Free Press: HK mogul's ex-workers 'broke down in tears' as they watched sentencingBBC: Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon gets 20 years' jail under national security lawThe Witness (CN 實時更新｜黎智英案判刑日 黎智英判囚20年 妻庭上抹眼角BBC (CN 橫跨五年、囚逾1800日，黎智英涉勾���外國勢力案明裁決 MERICS China Digest Download (pdf - 440.04 KB) Related content about Geopolitics Unusual speed and potential triggers: Assessing the latest purges in China’s military Comment Feb 13, 2026 Orbital geopolitics: China's dual-use space internet Report Feb 11, 2026 Orbital geopolitics, with Antonia Hmaidi and Altynay Junusova Podcast Feb 11, 2026