Taiwan's Foreign Ministry has elevated two previously marginal internal units to central roles in its diplomatic operations, signaling a structural shift away from values-based dip......
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......
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 Coast Guard Administration (CGA) has allocated approximately NT$29.5 billion (roughly US$ 910 million) under a special national security resilience budget to strengthen it......
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......
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......
Japan's government on April 21 approved a sweeping overhaul of its defense export rules, permitting domestic arms manufacturers to sell lethal weapons overseas for the first time i......
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......
Chen Kuan-ju (陳冠如), chairman of the Taiwanese manufacturing company Thunder Tiger, recently revealed that the company is developing a new kamikaze attack drone. Named "Iron Triangl......
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......
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......
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 ......
China's newest amphibious assault ship has emerged from a Shanghai shipyard displaying a stealth drone model on its flight deck, a development military analysts say signals a sig......
Chinese-made drones, led by DJI, continue powering essential tasks across the United States—from spraying vast farmlands to aiding wildfire response teams. A brief U.S. regulatory ......
Taiwan's military exercise entered its third day on January 29, with the Navy taking center stage in demonstrations that included the first public demonstration of the domestically......
A Chinese military drone entered the airspace over the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Island - also known as the Dongsha Island - for the first time on January 17, prompting a war of wo......
Taiwan's navy has moved plans to acquire a domestically developed maritime reconnaissance drone out of the regular defense budget and into President Lai Ching-te(賴清德)'s proposed sp......
