Taiwan News & Analysis

Examining over 75 years of relations between the United States and the Republic of China (Taiwan) – a core relationship characterized by a mix of empowerment and constraint.

It’s true that export controls have curbed the development of China’s domestic AI stack. But they have conversely also made it a rational inevitability, which is already evident in China’s ‘good enough’ AI stack.

Examining the force structure, doctrine, and capabilities of China’s PLA Navy after decades of modernization and rapid shipbuilding.

AI-powered military technologies can tilt the balance of power in the US-China rivalry. In this fight, victory is measured in access and supply chain resilience, and no region is more important than East Asia.

Examining the enduring influence of the three texts that form the legal basis of Taiwan’s international position: the Cairo Declaration of 1943, the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951, and the General Assembly Resolution 2758 of 1971.

This week we examine how a rapidly evolving situation in Greenland could remake trans-Atlantic relations, details of the long-awaited US-Taiwan tariff deal, a shock government offensive that changed the map of Syria, and Canada’s efforts to thaw out its relations with China.

This week we examine the growing backlog in US weapon deliveries to Taiwan, the long-term prospects of a recent ceasefire in the Thai-Cambodia border war, and President Trump’s Christmas Day strikes on Islamic State camps in Nigeria.

Southeast Asia is not seeking to influence the Taiwan question—only to survive it. The hope is that restraint, dialogue, and neutrality can keep the region from being dragged into a calamity it neither wants nor can prevent.

Taiwan matters to Japan: economically, diplomatically, and strategically. But while Tokyo cannot detach itself from Taiwan’s fate, neither can it afford to become too tightly bound to outcomes it does not control.

This week we cover missile deployments near Taiwan, a brewing water crisis in Europe along with a far more advanced one in Iran, and President Trump’s latest posturing over Venezuela.

A secure Taiwan will be built quietly and deliberately, through fuel reserves, civil defense training, and conscription reform - long before any foreign voice promises safety.

This week we cover the corruption scandal in Ukraine which triggered the latest round of ongoing peace efforts, new suspected hybrid warfare attacks in Poland, the sale of a new missile defense system to Taiwan, and the long-resisted approval of F-35 sales to Saudi Arabia.

Across the narrow strait separating Taiwan from China lies a question that could define the century: what happens when deterrence fails? This article examines how a war could play out.

Taiwan’s drive to diversify international partners reflects the tightrope that middle powers must navigate amidst growing great power competition. In this, the Canada-Taiwan economic cooperation framework can serve as an instructive case for Taipei.

The Nixon era not only offers ambiguous lessons, but practical guideposts for strengthening trilateral US-Japan-ROK security cooperation, made all the more relevant by growing concerns of a ‘dual contingency’ in Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula.