Ben Goren is the co-founder and director of communications at the Taiwan Policy Centre, a non-partisan group set up to promote Taiwan in the U.K. His
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Taiwan Invasion Plan Complicated by Philippines-US Deal
If U.S. Marine Littoral Regiments were to be deployed on the Philippines’ northern islands, they could use their potent missile systems in tandem with
How Flying Sea Mines Can Choke China’s Navy
During World War II, a massive airborne mine-laying operation destroyed 650 Japanese ships, choking the Japanese industrial complex and making a U.S.
Taiwan’s ‘Midterm’ Elections as Edward Yang’s Nightmare
In 1985, as Taiwan headed out of its martial law era (formally ending in 1987), director Edward Yang released Taipei Story, titled “Green Plums and a
Can Taiwan Survive the Dangerous ‘Davidson Window’?
Before vacating his position as leader of the U.S.’ Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Phil Davidson shocked the military world by testifying that China
How Beijing’s Useful Idiots Canceled Trump’s Spy Probe
Between the years 2010 and 2012, China killed or jailed around 20 of its citizens who had been feeding information to the CIA. The purge was so
U.S. Moves B-52 Missile Platforms Toward Taiwan
Designed in the late 1940s, the B-52 Stratofortress bomber is today still a very impressive and very large flying missile platform that can carry 32
DiCaprio Takes Aim at Chinese Fishing: Is He Right?
Last week, the actor Leonardo DiCaprio tweeted out a link to a New York Times piece on Chinese distant-water fishing, adding an introduction of his
Chinese Celebrities Are Feeding ‘One China’ Propaganda to Their Increasingly Nationalistic Fans
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Why China Feels Threatened by the Moral Authority of a 90-Year-Old Catholic Bishop
Cardinal Joseph Zen will stand trial on Sept. 19, 2022, in Hong Kong for his role as a trustee of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. This organization
China’s Conflicting Nationalisms in Wolf Warrior 2
At the end of Jim Jaramusch’s 2019 zombie movie, The Dead Don’t Die, as the two lead characters sit in a car surrounded by zombies, awaiting their