Taiwan Security Issues

Welcome to Taiwan Security Issues (TSI)! TSI's mission is to keep readers updated on the security situations around Taiwan and provide divergent perspectives to contextualize new developments. In an era of fragmented information and limited attention spans, TSI believes well-founded contextualization is essential for readers to make sound judgments and decisions. Providing trusted contextualization is, thus, the value of TSI's service. However, TSI's posting does not mean TSI's endorsing. TSI operates on Linkedin (https://lnkd.in/g7BF4vPv) and Facebook (https://lnkd.in/gdjADvkt). TSI uses a hashtag system to provide a database of Taiwan's and regional security issues. Each TSI post has a weekly report #, a category #, and various topic #. Readers can type hashtags of interest in Linkedin's search function (the magnifier icon on the upper-left corner) and find TSI posts on the related topics (Note: We found Facebook's search function works better than Linkedin). Every TSI week starts on Sunday and ends on Saturday. So, for example, if readers want to know about issues occurring around February 5, 2022, type #TSIWeekly20220130 (the week starts on Sunday, January 30, 2022) in the search function and can retrieve all TSI posts in the week. The following is the list of TSI’s topic hashtags. Readers can type these hashtags in the search function and retrieve TSI posts related to the topics. #TSITaiwanFP (Taiwan’s foreign policy and external relations) #TSITaiwanPolitics (Taiwan’s domestic politics) #TSIChinaFP (China’s foreign policy and external relations) #TSIChinaPolitics (China’s domestic politics) #TSICrossStrait (Cross-Taiwan Strait relations) #TSIUSTaiwan (U.S.-Taiwan relations) #TSIUSChina (U.S.-China relations, competition, rivalry) #TSIUSPolicy (Washington’s foreign policy, such as alliances, and sometimes domestic developments that have foreign policy implications) #TSIJapan (Tokyo’s foreign policy, and sometimes domestic developments that have foreign policy implications) #TSIMilitaryBalance (Anything related to the balance of military power in the China-Taiwan-US triangle) #TSIRegion (Issues relevant to East Asia security but not covered by the above topics, such as the South China Sea, the Korean Peninsula, and Southeast Asia.) #BestTSI20XX (Essential readings from TSI’s posts in the year 20XX) #TSIEssentialReadingsTaiwan (Essential readings on Taiwan’s security issues) Here is the list of TSI hashtags: https://lnkd.in/gsHk9JMD The TSI team: Executive Editor: Dalton Lin, Ph.D. (Georgia Institute of Technology) Content Management Staff: Selena Lin Wyatt Huang Sunil Kollipara Former Fellows and Staff (including with TSI's predecessor, Taiwan Security Research (TSR)): Minseok Lee Hans Yang Sing Hui Lee, Ph.D. Noah Crafts Grace Swift Grace H. James Lee Surya Narayanan Emma Stutts Brice Edelman Lauren Lin Eric D. Rowe Sebra Yen Priyanka Juneja Kristian McGuire

The most senior soldier in the German military has denied that sending a warship through the Taiwan Strait would amount to a provocation of China. Although the trip by the frigate Baden-Württemberg has not been officially confirmed, it is expected to take place soon after being widely reported in German media. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20240908 #TSIUSAlliances #TSIOneChina #TSILawfare https://lnkd.in/eQEjwRgc

Is the U.S. losing ground in Southeast Asia to China? Despite claims of “convergence” with Asian partners, a recent survey shows many ASEAN countries now favor aligning with China over the U.S. This shift is particularly stark in Muslim-majority nations due to U.S. policies in the Middle East. With growing Chinese influence, America’s strategic and economic engagement in the region faces serious challenges. #TSICommenatries #TSIWeekly20240909 #TSIChinaFP #TSIChinaRise #ASEAN #ChinaSEAN #ChinaForeignRelations

Ever since the summer of 2023, when then-Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang mysteriously disappeared from public view, his fate has been the subject of intense speculation. Wild rumors abounded: He’d been imprisoned. Killed himself. None was true. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20240909 #TSIChinaPolitics #ChinaPolitics #QinGang

China called on the Philippines to "seriously consider the future" of a relationship "at a crossroads" in a Monday commentary published by the People's Daily, the newspaper of the governing Communist Party, amid tensions in the South China Sea. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20240909 #TSISouthChinaSea #TSIChinaFP #SouthChinaSea #ChinaForeignPolicy #PLA #PLAN

How to curb and counter China’s influence and power — through its biotech companies, drones, and electric vehicles — will dominate the U.S. House’s first week back from summer break, with lawmakers taking up a series of measures targeting Beijing. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20240909 #TSIUSPolicy #TSIUSChina #USChina #TSIDeCoupling #Decoupling

China handed a nine-year prison term to a Taiwanese political activist convicted of “separatism”, a rare sentence that prompted Taiwan to warn its people about the dangers of travelling across the strait. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20240901 #TSICrossStrait #TSIOneChina #TSITaiwanIndependence #TSILawfare #TSICognitiveWarfare https://lnkd.in/etAuVqHz

China may see more death sentences handed down to corrupt officials in the future as President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption efforts reach into lucrative sectors and the spoils of corruption rise, according to Chinese law practitioners and observers. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20240901 #TSIChinaPolitics #ChinaAntiCorruption #ChineseLaw #ChinaPolitics

While China asserts a more muscular influence on global affairs, Western experts face growing constraints in their efforts to study the emerging superpower. Scholars researching everything from urban development to religious belief in China say they are running into barriers—many erected by Beijing but some arising at home. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20240901 #TSIChinaFP #TSIChinaPolitics #ChinaForeignRelations

Two German warships are set to pass through the Taiwan Strait in the middle of this month, becoming the first German naval vessels to do so in 22 years, Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20240901 #TSICrossStrait #CrossStraitRelations #TSITaiwanFP #TSITaiwanInternationalPersonality