Taiwan's legislature has yet to reach consensus on the Executive Yuan's proposed 'Special Act for Strengthening Defense Resilience and Asymmetric Combat Capability Procurement' (co......
The briefing was not announced publicly. No press release went out, no official schedule was published. But at the 2025 Taipei Aerospace and Defense Technology Exhibition, Vice Pre......
In the spring of 2016, a Hsiung Feng III (雄風三型) anti-ship missile launched from a Republic of China Navy frigate and struck a fishing vessel off the coast of Penghu. A crew member ......
The directions seem almost deliberately unremarkable. Take the main road through Hsinchu Science Park, turn past the TSMC campus, continue for roughly 450 meters. The building you'......
The brief ceasefire that halted the U.S.-Israel-Iran war on April 8—after fighting that began on February 28, 2026—has left Taiwan's military with a set of uncomfortable conclusion......
Taiwan's central government budget has been stalled for nearly 230 days. On April 24, a cross-party negotiation session at the Legislative Yuan produced a breakthrough framework in......
Jason Hsu (許毓仁) has a talent for arriving early to uncomfortable truths.In 2016, during his first term as a Kuomintang proportional-representation legislator, he co-sponsored a sam......
South Korea's government, already grappling with one of the world's most severe demographic declines, is now extending its policy response into an unexpected domain: the structure ......
Japan's government on April 21 approved a sweeping overhaul of its defense export rules, permitting domestic arms manufacturers to sell lethal weapons overseas for the first time i......
A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer transited the Taiwan Strait on April 17 for the first time in roughly ten months, prompting an immediate diplomatic protest......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has for the first time released detailed spending figures and quantities for its massive NT$1.25 trillion ($38.5 billion) special arms procure......
Japan's Self-Defense Forces joined Monday's annual U.S.-Philippines Balikatan exercises as full combat participants for the first time, deploying ground, maritime, and air units to......
The U.S. Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has released the 2026 Economic Report of the President, which centers on the policy roadmap and projected outcomes of the One Big Beaut......
As Taiwan's legislature prepares for cross-party negotiations on Wednesday on a major defense procurement bill, Jason Hsu(許毓仁) — a former KMT lawmaker now at Washington's Hudson In......
At the end of March, Reuters reported that the Japanese government was deliberating an extraordinary policy option: deploying part of its approximately $1.4 trillion in foreign ex......
Japan's Defense Ministry has announced a new recruitment target aimed at significantly increasing the share of female personnel in the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) by the mid-2030s, a......
Taiwan's defense special legislation has been deadlocked for months. The dispute started with a name. KMT legislator Hsu Chiao-hsin (徐巧芯) insisted the bill be called "Arms Procurem......
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale coordinated military strike against Iran, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei and much of Iran's senior leader......
Around 11 a.m. on March 29, a serious mass-casualty attack struck Beijing, China, when a man drove a bulldozer back and forth through a crowded market, killing at least 13 people a......
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chen Kuan-ting (陳冠廷) took the stage at the "Maritime Defense Unmanned Trends Forum" on April 7 with a clear message: Taiwan must take ......
From the fax machine to the internet to artificial intelligence, a recurring hope has run through Western democratic thinking: that technology would eventually make China freer. It......
Taiwan's defense budget has become a central flashpoint within the Legislative Yuan, drawing close attention from the American Institute in Taiwan. Meanwhile, a veteran financial o......
The Legislative Yuan's Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, along with the Finance Committee, reviewed competing special defense budget bills proposed by the Executive Y......
As the United States conducts military operations in the Middle East, a sharp disagreement has emerged within Washington's foreign policy establishment. Speculation over a potentia......
The US and Israeli military campaign against Iran, launched on February 28, has evolved into a protracted conflict that threatens global economic stability and inadvertently advan......
Taiwan's legislature has authorized the executive branch to sign Letters of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) for four U.S. arms procurement packages, even as the broader NT$1.25 trillion......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense announced Sunday that Deputy Defense Minister Hsu Szu-chien (徐斯儉) attended a handover ceremony in the United States on March 17 for the Repu......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense announced March 22 that it has received its first two MQ-9B high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles from the United States. Deputy Defense Mini......
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a Washington-based think tank, last month recommended that Taiwan establish a four-layer "maritime hellscape" defense zone extending ......
Taiwan's Executive Yuan has proposed a special defense budget bill worth approximately USD 38.5 billion (NT$1.25 trillion) to bolster national defense capabilities. Opposition part......
The Japanese government has launched a legal review to determine whether it can deploy the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. The ......
As the United States and Iran trade mass drone strikes across the Strait of Hormuz, the logic of modern warfare is being rewritten in real time — and some analysts warn Taiwan has ......
The sweeping purge of China's top military brass has stripped the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of its last institutional brakes, creating a highly volatile environment where a "l......
China's "Two Sessions" wrapped up this week with a striking image: a near-empty presidium at the People's Liberation Army delegation session, the visible toll of Xi Jinping's (習......
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that the ongoing military campaign against Iran will end soon because there are few military targets left to hit, but the staggering f......
A partisan dispute over the procedural review of Taiwan's proposed $38.5 billion special defense budget threatens to derail critical U.S. weapons procurements, a former U.S. Depart......
Taiwan's military has reported a rare and "unusual" lull in Chinese aerial activity, with Beijing's warplanes largely absent from the skies around the island for nine of the past 1......
A proposed NT$1.25 trillion ($38.5 billion) special defense budget remains stalled in Taiwan's legislature, caught in a high-stakes standoff between opposition parties seeking mass......
As Taiwan's legislature prepares to review a crucial special defense budget, political analysts warn the appropriation has evolved beyond a domestic fiscal debate into a critical p......
“If Taiwan's resolve for self-defense is eroded from within, outside help may never arrive.”The warning comes from Tony Hu (胡振東), a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who sp......
On Feb. 11, Taiwan's political gridlock over the Executive Yuan's Special Procurement Act for Enhanced Defense Resilience and Asymmetric Warfare Capabilities finally showed signs o......
As Taiwan faces escalating cross-strait security challenges, a quiet revolution is underway within the island's top intelligence and investigative agency. Ministry of Justice Inves......
In a rapidly evolving landscape where artificial intelligence is redefining warfare, Taiwan's drone sector faces a critical vulnerability: dependence on foreign AI systems that cou......
Taiwan's legislature may finally move forward on a long-delayed defense procurement bill — and the timing could not be more critical.In December, Washington announced an $11.1 bill......
A rare aerial confrontation over the Yellow Sea during China's most significant holiday has laid bare the precarious dynamics of the U.S. military presence in Northeast Asia. As st......
A historic election landslide for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has sparked intense debate among policy experts in Taiwan, with scholars warning that Tokyo's potential shi......
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) assembled an unprecedented display of military leadership at the Presidential Office to promote his administration's NT$1.25 trillion (about U......
Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has secured a historic landslide in the House of Representatives election, winning 316 seats—more than two-thirds of the chamber. Sanae Takai......
For decades, cross-strait tensions were cushioned by a dense web of civilian exchanges—tourists, scholars, students, and informal intermediaries who quietly absorbed shocks when po......
Taiwan's military plans to deploy four-legged robots and unmanned ground vehicles this year as part of a modernization strategy that integrates civilian technology into national de......
