Taiwan's Thunder Tiger Technology and American defense tech company Shield AI jointly demonstrated a coordinated swarm of autonomous unmanned surface vessels at the Dapeng Bay Sail......
Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST), the island's state-run defense research body, and U.S. defense technology company Shield AI announced on ......
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......
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......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te personally joined a Han Kuang 42 drill for the first time on August 5, boarding a fleet of CM-32 Yunpao armored vehicles that surged through central T......
Taiwan's legislature has blocked funding for unmanned military systems for months, and Defense Minister Wellington Koo (顧立雄) is no longer masking his alarm. The impasse, he warned ......
Taiwan's military launched the live-fire phase of its 42nd Han Kuang annual defense exercise on August 5, airlifting Marine Corps forces from the south of the island to the north a......
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......
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......
A Ukrainian lawmaker visiting Taipei this month told policymakers that preparing for conflict costs far less than fighting one — and that Russia's invasion of Ukraine provides the ......
Taiwan is not merely aging — it is disappearing. New government population data released this month confirm that the island's demographic crisis has deepened to a point that calls ......
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 —......
While much of central Taiwan braced against relentless downpours last week, a group of soldiers was deep in the rugged terrain near Guguan, completing one of the military's most gr......
Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force publicly revealed a previously undisclosed long-range hypersonic strike capability on June 7 during the country's largest annual live-fire exercis......
On June 4, Singapore's former defence minister Ng Eng Hen told Bloomberg Television that U.S. President Donald Trump was right to put the U.S.-China relationship above Taiwan — and......
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) visited two key defense facilities in Kaohsiung on May 29th, inspecting military production lines and air defense command infrastructure. He w......
Taiwan's Army Command Headquarters marked its 80th anniversary on Thursday with a ceremony at Dahan Military Base that combined troop reviews, live-fire demonstrations, and the pub......
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......
The National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) has publicly unveiled its Kestrel II anti-armor rocket, a domestically developed weapon designed to bolster Tai......
Thunder Tiger Corporation (雷虎科技) and U.S. defense technology firm Shield AI signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday to integrate Shield AI's Hivemind autonomous software......
As President Donald Trump prepares to travel to Beijing for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he has confirmed at the White House that arms sales to Taiwan will be direct......
Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger has argued that Taiwan's defense posture is quietly shifting — and that recent conflicts involving major powers offer cr......
When Taiwan's Legislative Yuan rejected Hsu Hsi-hsiang (徐錫祥) as the nominee for Prosecutor General, President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) did not pause, reconsider, or seek a new candidate.......
The ongoing debate over Taiwan's special defense procurement legislation has sharpened public scrutiny of specific weapons systems. Two acquisitions have drawn particular criticism......
Brandon Tseng (曾國光), the president and co-founder of San Diego-based AI defense startup Shield AI, cuts an unlikely figure for a former Navy SEAL — warm and approachable, nothing l......
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 ......
