Francis Tuschek, Taichung Washington’s pressure campaign on Iran is drawing renewed scrutiny as the Trump administration weighs military options ranging from targeted airstrikes to the possibility of a more extensive bombing campaign coming soon. Officials say the White House remains committed to maintaining its blockade on Iranian ports and energy exports, a policy that has…
Jake Saunders, Battambang Cambodia China, despite holding no Arctic territory, is deepening its economic foothold in the region through its links with Australia’s Greenland Minerals. The company aims to mine rare earth elements from the Kvanefjeld deposit in southern Greenland—an area rich in strategically vital minerals used in electric vehicles and wind turbines. Beijing has…
Richard Saunders, Macau — The U.S. military intervention in Venezuela in January 2026 — codenamed Operation Absolute Resolve — reverberated well beyond Latin America, prompting close scrutiny in Taipei and across Asia. By capturing President Nicolás Maduro and striking key targets in Caracas, Washington not only reshaped Venezuela’s political landscape but also redrew the boundaries…
Francis Tuchek, Kaoshiung As more nations conduct oil transactions outside the traditional petrodollar system, the erosion of dollar demand is weakening U.S. Treasury bonds and prompting Trump’s geopolitical maneuvers aimed at securing energy resources. Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, they suggest, have become a focal point in this struggle to preserve the dollar’s role at the…
By: Brian Iselin, Associate Editor Taiwan’s dithering in Lithuania is a diplomatic failure of significance — a self-inflicted wound that threatens to haemorrhage its credibility among the few European allies bold enough to defy Beijing. When Lithuania’s last administration allowed Taiwan to open its representative office in Vilnius in 2021, branded with the incendiary label…
The United States military officials and analysts have warned for years that China may launch an armed attack or blockade of Taiwan, but a report released on 4th,Oct warned of non-military strategies that may be effective against Taiwan. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a Washington-based research firm, said in a report that Beijing…
Paul Dibb, the former Australia deputy secretary of defense, pointed out that Australia should recognize the importance of Taiwan issues to its own defense, and if China launches an attack on Taiwan and successfully defeats United States, it will be Australia’s primary strategic threat as an independent country. Debb wrote an article at the Australian…
Richard Bush, former chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan by Dave Chamberlain, Staff Writer Richard Bush, former chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, highlighted China’s military threats and non-military coercion against Taiwan are challenges to the security partnership between the United…
According to the analysis of Taiwan’s national security Bureau (NSB) which is reported by Taiwan media, China has adopted a two-handed strategy in the context of strategic competition with Western countries led by United States and internal economic deterioration, playing the role of a peacemaker on the one hand, and aggressiveness on the other hand,…
pictured Researcher and Author Ben Blandin (article from KIMS periscope -republished with permission of author On different occasions over the past years and again very recently, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has warned of Taiwan interference and reiterated that China will not renounce to the use of force against the rebel island and repeatedly asked the…