Taiwan continues to make headlines nearly two months past its presidential and legislative elections. Alongside debates about maritime law around Taiwan’s Kinmen Islands, another issue that garnered attention in the West has been China’s balloon flights over Taiwan. Many have declared these balloons as the most recent example of Beijing’s gray-zone coercion tactics and urged … Read more
An incident in mid-February that led to the deaths of two Chinese fishermen continues to be politically contested between the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps in Taiwan. Likewise, the Chinese government has sought to use the incident to escalate gray-zone activity around Kinmen, an outlying island of Taiwan at its closest 2 kilometers from Xiamen in … Read more
Taiwan on Tuesday protested China’s boarding of a tourist boat, as tensions rise around the Kinmen archipelago, which lies a short distance off China’s coast but is controlled by Taiwan. Taiwanese media reported the King Xia, carrying 11 crew and 23 passengers, was boarded by the Chinese coast guard for about 32 minutes on Monday. … Read more
One component of the discourse around U.S.-China competition and Southeast Asia has been the region’s role in a future Taiwan contingency. Much of the focus has centered around how individual states would respond to particular scenarios relative to Beijing or Washington. Though this is a key aspect of potential responses, it also belies the wider … Read more
Advertisement In August-September 2020, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) began releasing daily reports in Chinese and English of incursions by Chinese military aircraft into its air defense identification zone (ADIZ). The objective was to publicize the latest gray zone tactic in Beijing’s multifaceted coercive toolkit against Taipei. The reporting started in large part due … Read more
Asia Defense | Security | Southeast Asia The Komodo exercises represent a rare sign of concord at a time of growing tension in the Asia-Pacific. The opening ceremony of the 4th Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo takes place in Makassar, South Sulawesi June 5, 2023. Credit: Facebook/TNI Angkatan Laut Advertisement Indonesia yesterday kicked off a rare multilateral naval exercise including … Read more