Taiwan's legislature passed the Virtual Asset Service Act in its third reading on June 30, creating the country's first licensing framework for cryptocurrency service providers and......
China's export restrictions on Japan, now in their sixth month, are doing exactly what Beijing intended: severing a critical link in the U.S. defense industrial supply chain — and ......
The U.S. Department of War announced on June 16 that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) would officially revert to its former name, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). While its a......
Taiwan's National Security Bureau (國家安全局, NSB) opened a dedicated online portal on June 14 to solicit intelligence tips from people inside mainland China and Chinese nationals abro......
China's push for technological self-reliance has crossed a threshold. What began as an industrial upgrading ambition has become something more fundamental: a national security proj......
When Jacob Langenkamp sat down with The Storm Media in Taipei on June 10, he came with a single question prepared — and it wasn't about price charts or crypto markets. It was about......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense reported on the morning of June 10 that six People's Liberation Army (PLA) vessels and ten Chinese government ships remained active in waters ......
Beijing's five-day enforcement operation inspected 198 vessels and mapped the seabed east of Taiwan — then state media declared the waters China's new "coastal sea."
China's mari......
Singapore's stock market has reclaimed its position as Southeast Asia's largest, overtaking Indonesia. Bloomberg data cited by The Straits Times shows Indonesian listed companies' ......
Nvidia's top executive used a global press conference on Wednesday to send an unambiguous message: supply chain diversification is not a retreat from Taiwan — it is a strategy buil......
For decades, Japan's deepest security anxiety was being pulled into an American war it did not choose. That fear, a leading Japanese political scientist now argues, has been overta......
In the volatile theater of major-power politics, the international community has spent the days following last week's high-stakes Trump–Xi summit in Beijing dissecting every diplom......
The global semiconductor industry is heading for a record-breaking milestone, with the market projected to surpass $1 trillion in value in 2026, according to KPMG's latest Global S......
When scholars and policymakers discuss the risks behind U.S.-China rivalry, one concept often resurfaces: the Thucydides Trap. The term describes a dangerous pattern in internation......
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the Chinese capital just days after U.S. President Donald Trump concluded his own visit, in a sequence of high-profile summits that unde......
When U.S. President Donald Trump said after his meeting with Xi Jinping that he did not want to see anyone "move toward independence," the remark drew immediate international atten......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) moved quickly to address public concern on Saturday evening (May 17), posting a detailed five-point statement on Facebook after U.S. President D......
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......
As President Donald Trump prepares to travel to Beijing for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he has confirmed at the White House that arms sales to Taiwan will be direct......
Former European Commission president calls for a stronger European defense pillar within NATO — and says the war in Ukraine is the wake-up call the continent can no longer ignoreWh......
Two months into the U.S.-Iran war, a ceasefire that President Trump declared indefinite has held — for now. Negotiations have lurched on and off, and reports emerged this week that......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) successfully visited Eswatini — Taiwan's only remaining diplomatic ally in Africa — despite intense pressure from Beijing that initially blocked......
"Geopolitical shifts and international upheaval are interconnected. What matters most for Taiwan is reducing its own variables, holding steady — and military procurement and nation......
The logic of globalization was once to maximize efficiency. The logic of competition today is to minimize risk. As supply chains shift from "lowest cost" to "most reliable," the na......
At the end of March, Reuters reported that the Japanese government was deliberating an extraordinary policy option: deploying part of its approximately $1.4 trillion in foreign ex......
Before the First World War, Europe existed under what appeared to be a stable, even prosperous imperial order. Leaders across the continent believed that even if conflict broke out......
A new annual survey of British businesses operating in Taiwan has found that political variables are increasingly shaping UK firms' decisions on further expansion in Taiwan — rangi......
The U.S.-Iran war has resurrected economic forces many assumed were relics of the past, proving that globalization, energy vulnerability, and the looming threat of inflation never ......
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's recent two-day visit to China marks a pivotal moment in European diplomacy, signaling that Germany—and potentially the broader European Union—is ......
In an era defined by U.S.-China tech rivalries, Taiwan's dominance in advanced chipmaking has turned it into a geopolitical linchpin. Companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur......
Taiwan's National Development Council, or NDC, announced on January 27 that its domestic economic monitoring indicator reached a composite score of 38 points in December 2025, up o......
On January 21, U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a combative 70-minute address at the annual session of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland.
During the speech......
China released shocking demographic data this week showing newborn numbers have been cut in half in less than a decade, underscoring a deepening population crisis across East Asia ......
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......