Many in Taiwan have treated Chinese military exercises this week as significant, following President Lai Ching-te’s (賴清德) National Day speech. But
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$14 Billion Arms Sale Still on Hold as Trump and Xi Look to APEC
With a month to go before President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s (習近平) next expected meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Taiwan Intent on Increasing Defense Spending
Taiwan is developing its indigenous defense industries, President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) said on October 10. “Our aim by increasing investment in
Pentagon to Embed Officials in Taiwan’s Defense Ministry
Taiwanese Defense Minister Wellington Koo (顧立雄) said today that defense exchanges between Taiwan and the U.S. are increasingly close, in his first
A Patriotic Air Defense System for Taiwan?
Taiwan wants to buy a bunch of air defense systems from the U.S., but President Donald Trump doesn’t seem so keen. Maybe that’s not so bad. When
From Peacetime Sovereignty Assertion to Wartime Sea Denial: Taiwan Must Continue Building a ‘Spear and Shield’ Navy
A tactically appealing argument has been proposed recently that Taiwan should abandon its surface combatant tonnage race with the People’s Liberation
Five Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Arms Procurement in Taiwan
In a lengthy investigative report published on Wednesday, Domino Theory revealed how Taiwan spent four years trying to acquire a counter-drone system
Investigation: How Taiwan Botched a Plan to Counter Chinese Drones
In August 2022, drones appeared in the skies above Kinmen, a Taiwanese island just off China’s coast. They were off-the-shelf, consumer drones,
U.S. Lawmaker Urges Taiwan’s KMT to Follow Through on Drone Funding
The chairman of a U.S. House committee focused on strategic competition with China urged Taiwan’s main opposition Chinese Nationalist Party, or KMT,
Taiwan Government Asks for More Money for Drones, Again
Taiwan’s government has formally proposed spending an extra 145.7 billion New Taiwan dollars ($4.6 billion) on defense in 2027, on top of the NTD
New Law Prepares Chinese Society for Wartime Crisis
China has passed a series of amendments to its National Defense Mobilization Law, bringing more clarity to how the country would enlist the help of
China’s Military Purge Shows No Sign of Stopping
Two of China’s most senior military officials have been removed from the country’s top military body, as well as its Communist Party-controlled