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Approximately $8 billion of the recent bill passed in Congress will be going to strengthen Taiwan's defensive capabilities...

China trying to ramp up pressure on the Philippines before the US and Japan are able to more permanently establish a presence in the Philippines Batanes Island which is only two hundred kilometers south of Taiwan and straddling the Bashi Straight between the two countries...

Early Design Models of Taiwan's planned production of new Navy Corvettes.

Taiwan to purchase over 10,000 Kestral Anti-Armor Missiles which are produced indigenously by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology. This is one of the many preparations Taiwan is making, along with the recent announcement of extending its compulsory military service in...

This was announced several days ago but Taiwan has has the official debut of its domestically constructed submarine, the Hai Kun class. It's a Diesel Electric Submarine and the first one... named Hai Kun... will be the first of ten planned to be constructed in its class. Details of it and its...

Private Taiwanese companies developing unmanned surface vessels, perhaps partially inspired by recent events on the other side of the world. This firm is called 'Thunder Tiger' which sounds like a poor translation that results in a badass sounding name but I have no idea. Their latest feature...

United States in a first will be delivering a $345 million dollar military aid package to Taiwan which will come from a drawdown of US Military Stocks like much of the aid sent to Ukraine has been. The aid will consist in part of MANPADs, small arms, missiles and ISR equipment...

Here's a cool map I found a few days ago. I was going to post it earlier but I didn't want it to get buried under the monthly sperg out that occurred yesterday. Just a map of the various "incursions" made by Chinese aircraft and vessels over the month of June close to Taiwan.

The original article it linked to stated it was a theory proposes in some defense journal and then repeated by Seth Moulton, a Democratic Senator. So not an official US plan but a credible threat to be part of a series of other measures to deter Chinese aggression against Taiwan...

After the US Congress' China Committee wargames Congressional leaders are stating they are working on reducing the significant $19 billion backlog of arms sales to Taiwan that they have made since 2019. This includes 66 F-16 Fighter Jets, components to refurbish and update their Patriot SAM...

If that happens I HOPE TAIWAN BLOCKS PARAGAY like YOU BLOCKED ME FOREVER!!! Actually no I don't. I hope they can still be friends in spite of the change of diplomatic status. Taiwan may need that expertise Paraguay (failed to) learn the hard way through the War of the Triple Alliance of how to...

Republican Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin visited Taiwan and met with its President. This visit took place on Day One of the Governors first International Trade Mission. He oversaw the opening of an economic development office in Taipei. Virginia has similar offices in Germany, Japan and...

The European Unions High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell in an opinion piece called upon European Navies to patrol the Taiwan Straights in order to guarantee peace as well as pointing out in the opinion article how important Taiwan is to Europe economically...

China suspected of cutting undersea internet cables that connect Taiwan to outlying Taiwanese islands closer to the Chinese mainland. https://foreigndesknews.com/asia/taiwan-suspects-chinese-ships-cut-islands-internet-cables/

Pentagon is making plans to establish a better system of transferring arms to Taiwan in a manner similarly to how the United States is supplying Ukraine. This is intended to help alleviate the $19 billion backlog in arms shipments that Taiwan has been expecting from the United States that is...

Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy meeting the President Tsai of Taiwan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. The weird (Chinese-American?) people who fly around Communist Peoples Republic of China flags are out in force apparently to protest. In total a...

Well over a hundred countries recognize Taiwan 'informally' and the United States is among them and obviously, far more important for Taiwan practically speaking. For most countries this entire issue is basically competing sugar daddies as stated earlier, and the Peoples Republic of West Taiwan...

Now I know how Taiwan feels... :cry:

I clearly wasn't but I might now just to be spiteful. :sneaky: :p

Yeah Honduras decided to recognize the Peoples Republic of China instead of the Republic of Taiwan after Honduras' Foreign Minister visited China last week. Honduras apparently asked Taiwan for over two and a half billion in foreign aid and on top of that construction of a new hospital, a new...