Archive

2026

Oct 7 Taiwan's 40,000-Drone Supplementary Budget Puts Its Porcupine Strategy in the Opposition's Hands
Oct 7 Taiwan National Day 2026: Will Beijing Answer Lai's October 10 Speech With Drills or the Coast Guard?
Oct 7 China Coast Guard's Zhujiajian Patrol East of Taiwan Turns a Four-Month Presence Into a Quarantine Rehearsal
Sep 1 SEMICON Taiwan 2026: The Optical Interconnect Buildout Is Re-Concentrating the AI Supply Chain in Taiwan
Aug 31 Unimicron Raid Shows Taiwan Policing Origin Fraud Before Washington Does
Aug 31 Taiwan Will Have 10 Minelayers by Year-End and Six Aging Minehunters to Clear Them
Aug 26 Taiwan Expo USA 2026 Returns to Dallas as Taipei's Texas Footprint Passes $10 Billion
Aug 12 China and Indonesia Navy Drill East of Taiwan: A Passing Exercise Sold as Jurisdiction
Aug 7 China July Exports Rise 23.9% as Semiconductor Shipments Nearly Double in Value Terms
Jul 28 Beijing's DUV Milestone and What It Actually Buys the PLA's Chip Supply Chain
Jul 24 PLA Air Activity Around Taiwan Halved in the First Half of 2026
Jul 23 China's Maritime Militia Buildup North of Taiwan Signals a New Testing Phase
Jun 21 Taiwan's EU Office Rejects Beijing's Belgium Facebook Claim: Repetition Is Not Sovereignty
Jun 14 Taiwan Opens an Intelligence Tip Website for Disaffected Chinese Nationals, Running Beijing's Reporting-Portal Playbook in Reverse
Jun 11 Taiwan Fires HIMARS Into the Taiwan Strait for the First Time: West Coast Live-Fire Drills Target the PLA Invasion Corridor
Jun 7 Lai Ching-te Wants Taiwan to Become Asia's Nasdaq. The Taiwan Strait Is the Catch.
May 24 The Iran MOU's Real Audience Is Beijing
May 16 Did Trump Sell Out Taiwan in Beijing?
May 13 Shield AI and Thunder Tiger to Integrate Hivemind Autonomy Across Taiwan's Unmanned Systems
May 12 Taiwan Claims 16 Awards at 2026 Edison Awards
May 12 GIGABYTE's COMPUTEX 2026 Showcase Signals Taiwan's Pivot to AI Infrastructure Export
May 11 Will Trump Abandon Taiwan the Way He Abandoned Ukraine?
May 10 Taiwan Detains Chinese Vessel After Undersea Cable Is Cut
May 9 The Undervalued Renminbi: Currency as Strategic Instrument
May 9 The 15th Five-Year Plan Is a Decoupling Document
May 9 The $1.2 Trillion Surplus: China's Export Machine as Strategic Instrument
May 9 Taiwan's Parliament Cuts the Defence Budget. Washington Calls It a Concession.
May 9 Taiwan Leads the World in Healthcare. The WHO Has No Use for It.
May 9 China's GDP Fiction and What It Means for Strategic Miscalculation
May 9 China's Debt at 296% of GDP: Fragility as a Driver of Risk
May 8 TiTE x IHT, October 20–22, 2026, Taichung
May 8 Taiwan's Hai Kun Fires Its First Torpedo
May 6 Taiwan Paid for the War in the Gulf
May 6 Rubio: U.S. and China Share Interest in Taiwan Strait Stability Ahead of Summit
May 2 Lai Ching-te Reaches Eswatini After China's Airspace Gambit Fails
May 2 Balikatan Pressure, Summit Shadow: Taiwan Strait Developments
May 1 China's Undersea Cable War Against Taiwan
Apr 29 Waves of Wonder: Taiwan's Tourism Pitch to the World
Apr 29 Taiwan's Tech Edge Is Exactly What Beijing Can't Stand
Apr 29 Edgecore Networks Joins Taiwan–Japan Partnership to Advance IOWN All-Photonics Network
Apr 27 The Silicon Shield Cuts Both Ways
Apr 27 The Rocket Force After the Purge
Apr 27 The Grey Zone War Is the Actual War
Apr 27 The Blockade Is the Rational Choice
Apr 27 The 2027 Window Is a Diagnostic, Not a Date
Apr 27 Taiwan's Porcupine Is Mostly Talk
Apr 27 NVIDIA Expands Rubin Supply Chain With Taiwan's Nanya Tech
Apr 27 Japan's Constitutional Drift Is the Real Story
Apr 27 China's Cloud Infrastructure Surge Reflects Deepening AI Militarization Risk
Apr 26 Xi's Timeline: Reading Chinese Intentions From Statements, Structures, and Force Development
Apr 26 Who Owns the Strait: The Legal Status of Taiwan's Waters and Why It Matters Now
Apr 26 What the War Games Say: The Simulations That Are Shaping Taiwan Contingency Planning
Apr 26 Vietnam's Angle: The South China Sea Dispute and Its Connection to Taiwan's Security
Apr 26 The Trade Trap: Cross-Strait Economic Integration and Its Strategic Implications
Apr 26 The Senkaku Overlap: How Japan's Island Dispute Entangles With Taiwan's Security
Apr 26 The Ryukyu Chain: Japan's Southern Islands and the Geography of Taiwan's Defense
Apr 26 The Rocket Force: China's Missile Arsenal and What It Can Do to Taiwan in the First Hours
Apr 26 The Reservist Problem: Taiwan's Effort to Build a Military That Can Actually Fight
Apr 26 The Price of War: Modeling the Global Economic Cost of a Taiwan Conflict
Apr 26 The Porcupine Strategy: Taiwan's Shift Toward Asymmetric Defense
Apr 26 The PLAN Buildup: How China Built the World's Largest Navy and What It Means for the Strait
Apr 26 The Philippine Pivot: How Manila's Basing Decision Reshaped the Taiwan Defense Geometry
Apr 26 The Nuclear Shadow: How Atomic Weapons Shape Taiwan Strait Deterrence Without Being Used
Apr 26 The Median Line: The Invisible Boundary That Kept the Peace and Is Now Being Erased
Apr 26 The Invasion Scenario: How the PLA Plans to Cross 110 Miles of Water
Apr 26 The Fighter Gap: Taiwan's Air Force and the Battle It Cannot Win Conventionally
Apr 26 The Digital Front: China's Cyber Operations Against Taiwan's Infrastructure and Defense
Apr 26 The Democracy Variable: Why Taiwan's Political System Is the Real Subject of the Dispute
Apr 26 The Chip Factories: Why TSMC Makes Taiwan the Most Economically Critical Island on Earth
Apr 26 The Blockade: The Taiwan Scenario More Likely Than Invasion and More Difficult to Respond To
Apr 26 The Arms Pipeline: American Weapons Sales to Taiwan and the Backlog That Defines a Relationship
Apr 26 Taiwan Makes Its Own Weapons: The Indigenous Defense Industry and Its Strategic Logic
Apr 26 Taiwan Builds Its Own Submarines: The Indigenous Defense Submarine Program and What It Means
Apr 26 Singapore's Tightrope: The City-State That Cannot Afford to Choose
Apr 26 Seoul's Silence: Why South Korea Cannot Afford to Take a Side on Taiwan
Apr 26 Pricing the Risk: How Financial Markets Are Incorporating Taiwan Strait Probability
Apr 26 Kinmen and Matsu: The Offshore Islands That Taiwan Still Holds Three Miles from China
Apr 26 India's Taiwan Calculation: The Swing State That Watches Without Committing
Apr 26 Fuel and the Island: Taiwan's Energy Vulnerability in a Conflict Scenario
Apr 26 Europe's Taiwan Problem: The Continent That Depends on the Outcome Without Shaping It
Apr 26 Dispersing the Fabs: TSMC's Expansion Beyond Taiwan and Its Geopolitical Limits
Apr 26 Cognitive Warfare: China's Information Operations Against Taiwan's Will to Resist
Apr 26 Civil Defense: Whether Taiwan's Population Is Ready for What Its Military Is Preparing For
Apr 26 China's Carriers: What the PLAN's Flatdecks Can and Cannot Do in a Taiwan Scenario
Apr 26 Below the Threshold: China's Gray Zone Campaign Against Taiwan
Apr 26 Australia's Taiwan Calculation: The Ally Closest to the Conflict That Least Wants to Name It
Apr 26 American Deterrence in the Western Pacific: What the US Navy Can and Cannot Do
Apr 26 1996: The Crisis That Shaped Everything That Came After
Apr 26 1949: The Unfinished War and the Political Fiction That Has Governed the Strait Ever Since
Apr 24 ASE Holdings Honors Top Suppliers at Annual Supplier Day, Eyes AI and HPC Demand Surge
Apr 22 DFI Expands Taiwan Manufacturing Capacity for Edge AI and Industrial Automation
Apr 21 Jensen Huang to Keynote COMPUTEX 2026 as NVIDIA Pushes AI Ecosystem Vision in Taipei
Apr 20 Chinese Carrier Liaoning Transits Taiwan Strait for First Time Since Late 2024