September 14, 2020
By: Ian Easton | TAIPEI TIMES | On August 24, 2020, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, made an important statement: “The Pentagon is Prepared for China.” […]
August 5, 2020
By: Chen Yun-yu, Stacy Hsu, Chiang Chin-yeh, and Matthew Mazzetta | FOCUS TAIWAN | Randall Schriver, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs and co-founder […]
July 27, 2020
By: Ian Easton | TAIPEI TIMES | There are perhaps only a handful of things we actually know with any degree of certainty about the strategic intentions animating […]
July 10, 2020
By: Randall G. Schriver | On July 1, 2020, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison released Australia’s 2020 Defence Strategic Update and 2020 Force Structure Plan, marking a significant shift […]
June 30, 2020
By: Ian Easton, Mark Stokes, Yang Kuang-shun, Eric Lee, and Colby Ferland | Unmanned systems are likely to transform the Taiwan Strait battle space in the […]
June 8, 2020
By: Ian Easton | TAIPEI TIMES | At no other time in the ancient story of international relations has Taiwan mattered as much as it does today and […]
April 27, 2020
By: Ian Easton | TAIPEI TIMES | The type of behavior the Chinese Communist Party routinely demonstrates ought to disqualify any China under its leadership from […]
March 10, 2020
By: Randall G. Schriver and Eric Sayers | WAR ON THE ROCKS | When war broke out in Ukraine in 2014 the Department of Defense moved […]
October 28, 2019
By: Ian Easton | TAIPEI TIMES | The Taiwan Strait is arguably the most dangerous flashpoint on the planet. It’s fundamentally unstable and the threat from […]