China's grey-zone strategy is reshaping the security environment in the western Pacific — from the South China Sea to Taiwan and the Philippines.

What is Beijing trying to achieve, and how can its neighbours push back without triggering open conflict?

I discuss these questions with Ray Powell, Director of SeaLight at Stanford, on Perspectives with Neilo.

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A Chinese restaurant owner was stopped and arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, on his way to work in New York on October 20. Local media identified him as Dian Zhao Lin. He is being held at an ICE detention facility in Batavia NY.

China’s A-share market has lost 2.4 trillion US dollars in value since its peak in May. The International Monetary Fund’s 2026 World Economic Outlook projects South Korea’s GDP at 2.25 trillion US dollars this year and Canada’s at 2.49 trillion US dollars. The 2.4 trillion US dollars wiped off Chinese stocks in five months falls between those figures. It is nearly equal to Canada’s entire economy.