Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed this week that the Trump administration is holding up a $14 billion arms package for Taiwan, telling Congress the deal remains under review......
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......
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During the Iran-U.S. conflict, Iranian drones shot down American Apache h......
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......
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......
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......
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......
"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......
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......
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......
As Taiwan's legislature prepares for cross-party negotiations on Wednesday on a major defense procurement bill, Jason Hsu(許毓仁) — a former KMT lawmaker now at Washington's Hudson In......
Taiwan's defense budget has become a central flashpoint within the Legislative Yuan, drawing close attention from the American Institute in Taiwan. Meanwhile, a veteran financial o......
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 proposed NT$1.25 trillion ($38.5 billion) special defense budget remains stalled in Taiwan's legislature, caught in a high-stakes standoff between opposition parties seeking mass......
As Taiwan's legislature prepares to review a crucial special defense budget, political analysts warn the appropriation has evolved beyond a domestic fiscal debate into a critical p......
On Feb. 11, Taiwan's political gridlock over the Executive Yuan's Special Procurement Act for Enhanced Defense Resilience and Asymmetric Warfare Capabilities finally showed signs o......
Taiwan's legislature may finally move forward on a long-delayed defense procurement bill — and the timing could not be more critical.In December, Washington announced an $11.1 bill......
U.S. concern over Taiwan's stalled defense spending has shifted from private diplomacy to unusually public pressure, as Washington signals growing impatience with political deadloc......
Taiwan's first domestically built submarine, the Hai Kun (海鯤號), completed two dive tests on January 29 and 30, drawing renewed public attention to Taiwan's long-delayed efforts to ......
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......
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......
That risk was on full display after American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Director Raymond Greene（谷立言） invoked the familiar refrain “freedom is not free” in a public address. The sent......
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As Taiwan's current legislative session enters its final week, the Taiwan People's Party delivered on party chairman Huang Kuo-chang's post-U.S. visit pledge by introducing its own......
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......
An exclusive interview that Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te gave to the local news outlet Sanlih Television aired on the evening of December 28In the interview, Lai addressed conc......
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......
