China's first fully submersible unmanned vessel — the "Blue Whale" — is entering operational deployment this year after completing sea trials, but a peer-reviewed paper by the vess......
Taiwan's military deployed mobile Hsiung Feng anti-ship missile launchers to the Penghu Islands for the first time on August 9, the fifth day of the island's 42nd Han Kuang live-fi......
Taiwan kicked off Han Kuang 42, its largest annual live-force military exercise, on August 5, with the ten-day drill drawing sharply divergent reactions on both sides of the Taiwan......
Lyle Morris, a senior fellow at the Asia Society's Center for China Analysis, published a report on July 23, 2026, identifying eight variables he says shape Chinese leader Xi Jinpi......
Rintaro Ogata (緒方林太郎)Member of the House of Representatives. Born in 1973 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka. While at the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Law, he passed the diplomatic servi......
On July 24, Taiwan's National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu publicly warned that China's People's Liberation Army had conducted simultaneous live-fire exercises acro......
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......
Taiwan's military deployed ground forces to Orchid Island for the first time in nearly 30 years during a joint defense exercise that concluded on July 17, marking a significant rea......
Taiwan's annual Han Kuang military exercise this year included, for the first time, a simulated internet disruption — throttling mobile data speeds across counties in the north and......
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......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, China's state broadcaster CCTV announced — with unusual speed for a PLA operation — that the navy had test-fired a submarine-launched intercontinental ball......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, a Chinese ballistic missile submarine fired a single JL-series submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that splashed down, as planned, in a designated ......
As the Executive Yuan sends its draft special statute on domestic unmanned vehicle procurement to the Legislative Yuan — with opposition parties readying rival bills of their own —......
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......
Two Chinese government vessels entered the restricted waters surrounding Itu Aba Island on June 11 — the first deliberate intrusion since Taiwan formally designated those zones in ......
Taiwan's Drone Billions Risk Becoming a Procurement Parade Without a Strategy
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During the Iran-U.S. conflict, Iranian drones shot down American Apache h......
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's Ministry of National Defense reported on the morning of June 10 that six People's Liberation Army (PLA) vessels and ten Chinese government ships remained active in waters ......
After years of setbacks spanning construction, launch, and sea trials, the vessel has gained momentum in recent months. A successful torpedo-firing exercise in early May gave defen......
Taiwan's legislature recently approved a NT$780 billion special defense budget ceiling that stripped out all planned commercial purchases and commissioned development of unmanned v......
When Rear Adm. Michael Studeman briefed then-President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) in 2021 on likely Chinese military moves ahead of any invasion, Tsai told him she had waited four years fo......
When Donald Trump sat down with Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 15, neither government's official readout mentioned Taiwan's arms purchases. Trump himself, however, was considerably l......
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has firmly rejected Chinese President Xi Jinping's assertion that Taiwan independence is incompatible with peace in the Taiwan Strait, counteri......
The ongoing debate over Taiwan's special defense procurement legislation has sharpened public scrutiny of specific weapons systems. Two acquisitions have drawn particular criticism......
Taiwan's legislature has yet to reach consensus on a proposed eight-year, NT$1.25 trillion special defense appropriations bill—formally titled the Special Act for Strengthening D......
China's military court on May 7 handed suspended death sentences to two former defense ministers, Wei Fenghe(魏鳳和) and Li Shangfu(李尚福), marking a significant escalation in Chinese l......
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) ......
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 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......
A retired Navy major and former lieutenant commander, Lu Li-shih (呂禮詩), recently traveled to China to tour a People's Liberation Army Navy vessel, publicly stating that he witnesse......
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......
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has formally assessed that China has no current plan to invade Taiwan in 2027 and no fixed reunification timetable, effe......
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......
For the past five years, the notion that the People's Liberation Army would invade Taiwan in 2027 had taken on the character of received wisdom in Washington's think tanks and poli......
Yusuke Anami (阿南友亮) is a professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Law, born in 1972, and holds a doctorate from Keio University's Graduate School of Law. His research fo......
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......
For twelve consecutive days beginning February 27, People's Liberation Army aircraft recorded no sorties over the Taiwan Strait's western approaches — an absence that prompted a wa......
As the United States and Israel conduct joint military operations against Iran and the Russia-Ukraine war stretches into its fourth year, the stability of the Taiwan Strait remains......
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......
China's highly choreographed "Two Sessions" parliamentary meetings are set to convene March 4-5, where the Communist Party will unveil its economic and strategic blueprint for 2026......
As Taiwan's first domestically built submarine, Hai Kun (海鯤號), moves through sea acceptance trials, attention is fixed not only on the vessel itself but on the small, insular force......
their military influencetheir military influenceOn the afternoon of January 24, China's Defense Ministry suddenly announced that Central Military Commission members Zhang Youxia (張......
Following the official announcement of PLA General Zhang Youxia's (張又俠) downfall last Saturday, speculation has mounted steadily. After Wednesday's Taiwan Affairs Office press conf......
Chinese Military Purge Signals Shift in Taiwan Invasion Risk AssessmentBeijing's recent announcement of investigations into Zhang Youxia (張又俠) and Liu Zhenli (劉振立) has sparked inte......
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 29, discussing whether the recent U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan ......
A political earthquake has struck the Chinese Communist Party's military leadership. Xi Jinping has moved against Zhang Youxia (張又俠), a fellow “red second generation” princeling an......
