Reports earlier this week suggested that US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy intends to visit Taiwan sometime in the spring. Consequently, the Pentagon is preparing for a possible McCarthy visit...
Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, who served under the Trump administration, visited Taiwan again this week. This followed up on an earlier visit to Taiwan by Pompeo in March...
Imagine if after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that a leading Anglophone left academic journal put out an article blaming the invasion on the failure of Ukrainians to embrace Russian culture. Putin justified the invasion by claiming that Ukraine did not have a language, identity, or culture of its own outside of Russian culture and was wholly an invention of the Bolsheviks, so Ukraine’s existence as a polity could justifiably be nullified. The invasion of Ukraine, then, is the fault of Ukrainians for failing to embrace the “Russo-world”...
It remains opaque as to whether military drilling by China around Taiwan will continue in the coming days. Namely, although the People’s Liberation Army initially announced that its four days of live-fire drills would end on Sunday, yesterday it announced that military exercises in the area would continue. The drills are an escalation for the Chinese military, seeing as they take place closer to Taiwan than took place during the Third Taiwan Straits Crisis...
Today was the first day of live-fire drills conducted by the People’s Liberation Army in maritime areas around Taiwan. The drills are as close as 20 kilometers to metropolises such as Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s major southern port city, and are nine kilometers away from the island of Little Liuqiu. Another zone was added by the Maritime and Port Bureau for ships to avoid during the drilling, which is to last until Sunday, bringing the number of such zones to 7...
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, which began yesterday after she arrived at Songshan Airport at 10:43 PM and ended today around 4:45 PM, has been eventful. Pelosi is the highest-ranking US elected official to visit Taiwan in a quarter of a century, the last such visit having been Newt Gingrich’s visit in 1997...
The prospect of a Nancy Pelosi visit to Taiwan has continued to be a divisive notion, with a number of warnings in international media about the dangers of such a visit. Pelosi is the US House Speaker. The significance of the visit can be seen in that she is third in succession to the presidency, after the vice president...
A scoop by the Financial Times on Tuesday reported that US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi planned to visit Taiwan next month. However, US president Joe Biden surprised today with apparent off-the-cuff comments suggesting that his administration viewed the Pelosi visit as a bad idea. When asked about the prospect of a Pelosi visit, Biden stated, “Well, I think that the military thinks it’s not a good idea right now. But I don’t know what the status of it is”...
