Taiwan's Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo (顧立雄) said Monday he remained "cautiously optimistic" that arms transfers from Washington would continue, seeking to project ca......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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) ......
Taiwan — widely regarded as the world's top conflict flashpoint — has seen its defense budget remain stalled in the legislature, even as Japan, the Philippines, and other Indo-Pa......
Taiwan's Executive Yuan on April 30 outlined the structure of a NT$1.25 trillion special defense procurement budget, with NT$335 billion earmarked specifically for unmanned vehicle......
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 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......
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......
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......
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 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......
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 ......
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......
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......
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......
The Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan's main opposition party, has restarted a long dormant cross strait forum for dialogue with Beijing after a nine-year hiatus, signaling a strategic shif......
A shake-up in the top ranks of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) is making Beijing's Taiwan policy harder to read, a Taiwanese defense scholar has warned. Speaking at a Januar......
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......
During a meeting of the Kuomintang Central Standing Committee on January 28, party Chairperson Cheng Li-wen (鄭麗文) stated that Taiwan "does not need to choose between the U.S. and C......
Social Media Links & Editor Tag- ChaseChina's Ministry of Defense recently announced that Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Youxia and Chief of Joint Staff Liu Zhenli......
After nine months of intensive tariff negotiations with the U.S., Taiwanese Deputy Premier Cheng Li-chun returned to the country to Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰). remain sharply divi......
On Thursday, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-teon announced a proposed increase of 1.25 trillion Taiwanese dollars (approximately 40 billion U.S. dollars) to the country's defense bu......
