The Indo-Pacific Strategy Think Tank hosted a Taiwan-Japan Diplomatic and Defense Forum at The Grand Hotel Taipei on September 9, bringing together a cross-party delegation of seve......
Taiwan's national security agencies say they have identified a new pattern along the First Island Chain: Beijing and Moscow appear to have reached an understanding to cooperate wit......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense released its annual assessment of People's Liberation Army capabilities on August 31, finding that while China's military has significantly br......
A new study from the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, reported by the Japan Times, concludes that China has sharply expanded i......
The Associated Press recently posed a pointed question: why does the United States keep treating Taiwan's security and the South China Sea's security as bound together? Hunter Mars......
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to sharply scale back this year's annual Ulchi Freedom Shield joint military exercises with South Korea on August 19, while simulta......
Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's top policy official, on August 13 pushed a sweeping U.S. defense agenda for Southeast Asia while rejecting reports that Washington is expanding its r......
Japan released its 2026 Defense White Paper on August 4, once again designating China "the greatest strategic challenge" — language the government has held constant since revising ......
Japan's Defense Ministry released its 2026 Defense White Paper in August, delivering one of Tokyo's starkest public assessments yet of the military balance between China and Taiwan......
Taiwan is set to launch its largest live-fire war games in years on August 5, with Defense Minister Wellington Koo (顧立雄) revealing in an exclusive briefing that American military a......
On July 20, a Philippine vessel clashed with Chinese coast guard forces near Second Thomas Shoal — the same day the ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting opened in Manila, and US Secret......
The Pentagon's most advanced targeting network and Sony Music's spatial audio app rely on the exact same underlying technology. Both the drone swarms patrolling the First Island Ch......
When the American Institute in Taiwan posted a photograph on July 28 showing US and Taiwan coast guard vessels sailing in formation, supporters of the ruling Democratic Progressive......
The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) published images on July 28 showing a Taiwanese coast guard vessel sailing alongside a U.S. Coast Guard cutter — the first time Washington ha......
Chinese military activity around Taiwan has fallen to its lowest level in years even as the long-feared 2027 "Davidson Window" approaches, and Taiwanese intelligence believes it kn......
China has been systematically incorporating large civilian vessels — roll-on/roll-off ferries, bulk freighters, and hospital ships — into contingency planning for a potential milit......
A new report from one of Australia's leading defense think tanks argues that China may not need to force its way through the Western-designed security cordon in the Western Pacific......
Japan's parliament voted in late June to rename the Air Self-Defense Force the "Air and Space Self-Defense Force" before the close of the current fiscal year in March 2027. The cha......
China's coast guard vessels are now patrolling waters far east of Taiwan — beyond even the "ten-dash line" Beijing drew on its own 2023 standard map — and analysts say the operatio......
As tensions across East Asia continue to rise, China's People's Liberation Army Navy fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile into the Pacific on July 6 — a test that breached ......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, a People's Liberation Army Navy nuclear-powered submarine fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile carrying a simulated warhead into the South Pacific ......
On June 27, Chinese and Russian air forces carried out their 11th Joint Air Strategic Patrol, sending more than 15 aircraft across the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the west......
Throughout June, Chinese coast guard vessels pushed into Japanese and Philippine waters on three separate fronts east and southeast of Taiwan, escorting government research ships a......
Taiwan's military has covertly established a cross-border data backup infrastructure in Japan — a move designed to preserve critical command, communications, and operational data i......
For decades, the question of whether the United States would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan against a People's Liberation Army assault has been one of Asia's most fiercely c......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te delivered a pre-recorded video address Thursday to the inaugural Shinzo Abe and Modern Japan International Research Forum in Tokyo, paying tribute to ......
A passenger ferry operated by Shosen Yaeyama — the Yaeyamamaru (八重山丸) — completed its inaugural voyage last week, connecting Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, to Keelun......
As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet on Wednesday, May 14, Taiwan's national security establishment is pushing back against what officials describe as a dangerously distorted narrat......
PLA Military Activity Around Taiwan: Patterns Behind the ExercisesTaiwan's Ministry of National Defense reported at 9:27 a.m. on May 4 that only two People's Liberation Army (PLA) ......
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 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 ......
On his first overseas tour as U.S. under secretary of defense for policy, Elbridge Colby used visits to Japan and South Korea to outline what officials describe as a doctrine of “f......
Recent defense budget discussions and the contested NTD$1.25 trillion special defense budget have drawn sustained attention, with the special budget remaining stalled amid cross-pa......
China conducted live-fire military exercises in the Taiwan Strait throughout the day of December 30. In response, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te stated on social media that he h......
