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 Former Fellows and Staff (including with TSI's predecessor, Taiwan Security Research (TSR)): Sunil Kollipara 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

Germany’s mammoth spending package cleared its last parliamentary hurdle, paving the way for as much as €1 trillion in civilian and defense investments to jolt the region’s economy and reduce its military reliance on the U.S. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20250316 #TSIUSAlliances https://lnkd.in/etE6gsr4

Ever since Mr. Trump imposed extensive tariffs on goods from China during his first term, companies have been investing heavily in countries like Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand to assemble Chinese components into goods for shipment to the United States. Doing final assembly in these countries offered a back door to the U.S. market regardless of trade frictions between Washington and Beijing. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20250309 #TSIUSChina #TSIDeCoupling #TSIChinaEcoSoc https://lnkd.in/emdAJPiE

Sanctions, export controls and other administrative measures are increasingly crucial in Beijing’s efforts to push back against foreign government actions with asymmetric retaliation. #TSICommentaries #TSIWeekly20250316 #TSIChinaFP #TSIEconomicStatecraft #TSIDecoupling

 Foreign ministers from Japan, China and South Korea sought trilateral cooperation on common ground in areas like aging, declining births, natural disasters and the green economy at a meeting that took place at a time of growing tensions. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20250316 #TSIChinaFP #TSIChinaJapan #TSISouthKorea #TSIJapan

A Chinese takeover of Taiwan would cut off the world's supply of advanced artificial intelligence chips, creating a catastrophic disruption to the global technology industry and potentially handing China a decisive advantage in the AI race, warned Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in a recent podcast interview. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20250316 #TSIUSChinaTechWar #TSISemiconductor #TSIResilience https://lnkd.in/egN82xBV

Elbridge Colby's assessment that Taiwan is “not existential for America” drew the comparison with the 1950 "Acheson Line," the US defense perimeter that ran through the main islands of Japan, Okinawa, and the Philippines but excluded South Korea and Taiwan. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20250309 #TSIUSPolicy #TSIRegion #TSIUSAlliances https://lnkd.in/dDuZtvm8

Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te said Thursday that the island’s defense budget will exceed 3% of its economic output as it overhauls its military in the face of the rising threat from China. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20250316 #TSITaiwanPolitics #TSICrossStrait #CrossStrait #WilliamLai #LaiChingte

Europe and China will have to collaborate more closely on tackling global challenges as the United States retreats from the multilateral world order under President Donald Trump, according to a top Norwegian diplomat. #TSINews #TSIweekly20250316 #TSIChinaFP #TSICharmOffensive #ChinaForeignRelations

China is the top priority in the Trump administration’s national security strategy, but that’s balanced with a sharpened focus on the Western Hemisphere, a panel of defense experts agreed Thursday. #TSINews #TSIWeekly20250316 #TSIUSChina #TSIChinaFP #USChinaRelations