1. Is China Inserting Itself Into the Taiwan-Philippines Spat?

    This week a Chinese warship and a couple of maritime agency vessels conducted a patrol in the areas of the [...]

  2. How Taiwan Bungled the Philippine Crisis

    The art of diplomacy involves not only the ability to maximize the returns for one’s country but also a keen [...]

  3. Asia’s Next High Seas Drama

    The 15-tonne Kuang Ta Hsing No. 28 was docked at the Ta Fu fishing port on Siaoliouciou, off Pingtung County [...]

  4. China’s Shifting Cyber Focus on Taiwan

    Hackers from the Chinese military appear to have shifted the focus of their attacks against Taiwan from government institutions to [...]

  5. Taiwan’s New Source for Submarine Tech?

    It has been more than a decade since U.S. President George W. Bush announced that Washington was willing to help [...]

  6. Taiwan’s Regional Security Profile Grows

    The public acknowledgement may have been accidental, but the revelation on March 4 that Singaporean soldiers in Taiwan would participate [...]

  7. Japan Explores War Scenarios with China

    As Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party national defense task force announced on Jan. 8 that it would increase the nation’s defense budget by [...]

  8. What do the Falklands and First Gulf War Have in Common?

    A report emerged over the weekend that the United States may have inadvertently green-lit the 1982 Falklands War by sending [...]

  9. A New Game Plan For China’s Nuclear Arsenal?

    In a system where order and sequences have a highly symbolic value, Xi Jinping’s first promotion of a military officer [...]

  10. New Leaders: New Attitude?

    In the lead-up to the once-in-a-decade Chinese leadership transition in November, most experts on China agreed that new party chairman [...]