Former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) arrived in California on October 6, Taiwan time, ahead of a keynote at a Stanford University conference that brings together Silicon V......
Chinese state television has no shortage of national security and counter-espionage dramas, but one that puts Lee Teng-hui, a Taiwan Strait crisis and cross-strait spycraft at the ......
China's newly revised National Defense Mobilization Law is set to take effect on October 1, 2026, and Taiwanese national security officials say the update is far more than a strate......
A Taiwanese national was detained and interrogated for six hours at Shanghai's international airport after Chinese customs officers flagged his prior employment with Amnesty Intern......
The Economist's recent piece "Taking Taiwan's democracy hostage" opens with a blunt question: how many young Taiwanese is Xi Jinping willing to shoot to take the island? From there......
Taiwan's satellite network can preserve essential communications during a cable outage, but it cannot replace the bandwidth carried by the island's undersea cables or sustain norma......
The United States and South Korea abruptly cut their annual Ulchi Freedom Shield military exercise nearly in half on August 19 at Washington's explicit request — with Seoul's forei......
Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure carry outsized returns for attackers, as even a modest intrusion can escalate into a serious political crisis with wide social repercussions......
China's State Council has published sweeping new exit-entry management regulations signed by Premier Li Qiang and set to take effect September 15, 2026 — rules that critics say tra......
Taiwan's top China policy official warned lawmakers on August 5 that a sweeping new set of Chinese exit-entry regulations, set to take effect September 15, are written so vaguely t......
A Wall Street Journal report published July 30 set off a wave of market speculation by claiming that Tesla's senior leadership had been instructed to prepare for the "separation" o......
Two weeks after a stranger followed him into a Taichung hotel lobby and punched him in the face, Akio Yaita (矢板明夫) has no interest in discussing whether he will now choose his word......
Taiwan's annual Han Kuang military exercise this year included, for the first time, a simulated internet disruption — throttling mobile data speeds across counties in the north and......
Taiwan's legislature cleared a key preliminary hurdle on July 13 for draft amendments that would ease two-decade-old restrictions on foreign participation in the country's telecom ......
Taiwan last year recorded a total fertility rate of 0.695 — the lowest ever measured for any country in the world. No amount of cash incentives, childcare reform, or parental leave......
Taiwan is not merely aging — it is disappearing. New government population data released this month confirm that the island's demographic crisis has deepened to a point that calls ......
Taiwan's Drone Billions Risk Becoming a Procurement Parade Without a Strategy
Money Without a Master Plan
During the Iran-U.S. conflict, Iranian drones shot down American Apache h......
A U.S. citizen and prominent scholar of Myanmar affairs was detained by Chinese security authorities in Yunnan province earlier this month, sparking concern among academic freedom ......
China on Monday, June 22, barred government agencies from buying products made by 46 designated American companies while placing 10 more on a strict export control list, marking t......
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 Donald Trump raises the tariff banner, many observers instinctively reach for familiar frameworks — protectionism, beggar-thy-neighbor economics, the ghost of Smoot-Hawley. Th......
Taiwan's state-owned electricity provider endures an average of 30,000 cyberattacks every day — a figure that ballooned to over three million across just three days when then-U.S. ......
China's State Council on June 1, 2026 formally published the Outbound Investment Regulations (對外投資法), set to take effect on July 1. The rules establish a clearer framework for Chin......
Chiu Yi-jen (邱義仁) does not give interviews casually. As former Secretary-General of the National Security Council, presidential adviser, and Vice Chairman of the Democratic Progres......
A wave of national optimism is sweeping through Taiwan's tech sector. In recent months, university teams have logged successful in-orbit communications, while domestic telecom gian......
For years, the debate over Taiwan's defense budget has orbited a single, politically loaded question: does military spending crowd out social welfare? That framing is understandabl......
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......
Why Taiwan Is Betting on Hardware-Level Cybersecurity to Counter AI-Driven Attacks
Taiwan's critical military and civilian infrastructure faces a qualitatively new threat: cyberat......
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......
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......
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......
When a U.S. Army soldier allegedly used classified details of a secret military operation to pocket $410,000 on a prediction market platform — and French authorities opened a crimi......
Starmer's Political Crisis: What Happened and Why It MattersFormer UK Ambassador to the US Had Not Cleared Security VettingPeter Mandelson, appointed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer......
After six years of legal battles and political maneuvering, video-sharing app TikTok has finally averted its potential demise in the US market by establishing a new American joint ......
Taiwan's government has revoked the residence permit of a Chinese employee from the Taiwanese multinational electronics manufacturer ASUS named Qian Li. Li accused her company's CE......
