Taiwan’s extreme dependence on imported energy leaves it dangerously vulnerable to a Chinese blockade, threatening both ...

Energy is the weakest element in Taiwan’s resilience against coercion,” warns a report by the U.S.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Second, Taiwan should accelerate asymmetric defense transformation. If Operations Spider’s Web and Rising Lion do nothing else, they demonstrate the risks associated with over-investing in $2 billion ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. wasn’t “playing with fire” when he stated that should an all-out war occur between the United ...

A scene from Taipei’s 2025 Urban Resilience Exercise, the civil defense portion of the Han Kuang exercise, July 17, 2025. Credit: Office of the President, ROC (Taiwan) As the war in Ukraine ...

The previously unreported exercise offers a rare window into contingency planning over Taiwan, which some Asian and Western ...

PROTECTING our nation without being weaponized by the United States — that’s the subject of this and next Thursday’s columns, ...

Taiwan has added Huawei and SMIC to its export control list to curb China's access to advanced chip technology, aligning with U.S.-led efforts to restrict Beijing's AI and semiconductor ambitions.

The “Great Recall”, as it has been dubbed locally, is the largest vote of its kind in Taiwan’s history and, depending on the ...