A commentary published by Stanford University's Hoover Institution on July 27, 2026, argues Japan has quietly carried out its most profound defense transformation since 1945 — with......
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 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......
Taiwan's cabinet has approved a draft special act authorizing up to NT$210 billion in spending on unmanned military systems — a procurement program running from August 2026 through......
President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) traveled to Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) on July 23 to press the opposition-controlled legislature — Taiwa......
A 15-member delegation from Slovenia's ruling Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) wrapped up a five-day visit to Taiwan on July 17, in a trip that Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said ......
In an era of international relations where politics and policies seem to change by the hour, there are few truths that have proven self-evident for decades. But here's one: The sec......
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 —......
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During the Iran-U.S. conflict, Iranian drones shot down American Apache h......
Warsaw became the latest — and perhaps most strategically significant — European stop for Taiwan's flagship trade showcase on June 22, as the European Taiwan Excellence Expo opened......
The global race for artificial intelligence dominance must be bounded by clear ethical limits—or it risks becoming genuinely dangerous. That is the warning from Yen Bo-wen (顏博文), C......
A Buddhist art museum themed around the works of Xia Jingshan (夏荊山) is set to be built on a 7,000-ping (23,140 square meters) surface-rights development site at the Tainan Arsenal,......
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......
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 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......
"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 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......
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......
South Korea's government, already grappling with one of the world's most severe demographic declines, is now extending its policy response into an unexpected domain: the structure ......
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......
Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) met with Lithuania's newly appointed representative to Taiwan, Karolis Pilipauskas (裴凱倫), on Tuesday, calling for deeper collaboration in four ......
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale coordinated military strike against Iran, killing Supreme Leader Khamenei and much of Iran's senior leader......
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......
When Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 began reshaping battlefield dynamics across multiple recent conflict zones, it sent a clear signal to defense industries worldwide that the era of the c......
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 ......
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......
Since the launch of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, U.S. and Israeli forces have, over 18 days of combat through March 17, killed 49 senior Iranian officials — including Suprem......
Since Feb. 28, U.S. and Israeli forces have been conducting Operation Epic Fury, a sustained campaign of precision strikes against Iran's leadership, nuclear facilities, ballistic ......
A prominent Washington think tank is urging Taiwan to transform the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned "hellscape" to deter a potential Chinese invasion. However, domestic political gr......
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......
In a rapidly evolving landscape where artificial intelligence is redefining warfare, Taiwan's drone sector faces a critical vulnerability: dependence on foreign AI systems that cou......
Taiwan has surpassed Germany to become the United States’ fourth-largest trading partner through the first 10 months of last year, according to the latest U.S. trade statistics cit......
Taiwan's military plans to deploy four-legged robots and unmanned ground vehicles this year as part of a modernization strategy that integrates civilian technology into national de......
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......
Poland has quietly become the world's largest buyer of Taiwanese drones by 2025, with imports accounting for nearly 60% of Taiwan's total drone export value. Taiwan and Poland have......
