Taiwan's military is quietly scrapping a long-held preference for military-specification hardware. Under Defense Minister Wellington Koo (顧立雄), the armed forces have adopted a proc......
Legislative Yuan Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) capped a cross-party delegation visit to Washington with a meeting at the Capitol alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson — and Taiwan's poli......
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......
The Trump administration has suspended a proposed $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan, one of the largest defense packages considered for the island, after the Pentagon and White House......
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......
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......
The ongoing debate over Taiwan's special defense procurement legislation has sharpened public scrutiny of specific weapons systems. Two acquisitions have drawn particular criticism......
"Geopolitical shifts and international upheaval are interconnected. What matters most for Taiwan is reducing its own variables, holding steady — and military procurement and nation......
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......
A proposed NT$1.25 trillion (US$39.1 billion) special defense budget, spread across eight years, has plunged the Kuomintang(KMT) into an embarrassing internal brawl — one that expo......
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......
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......
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......
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......
As tensions in the Middle East rapidly escalate and the risk of a US-Iran confrontation grows, Taiwan's strait security has returned to the core of international strategic debate. ......
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......
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......
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......
Taiwan's military has completed full delivery of all procured Altius-600M loitering munitions purchased from the United States, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) stated in a w......
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 annual government budget has yet to be passed, as opposition parties in the legislature remain deadlocked on certain items, chief among them a multi-year NTD 1.25 trillion......
