Future Taiwan Coast Guard Administration cutter Siraya departs Kaohsiung for its first sea trial. Siraya is the first of six ships built under the High-Latitude Offshore Patrol Vessel program.

Focus Taiwan: Majority reject ‘one China principle’, but opposition drops, according to NDEF poll – ‘other questions in the survey also pointed to growing hesitation among respondents about cross-strait political talks’

When reading about America’s unwillingness to support recolonization after the Second World War, it’s pretty jarring to remember that we were a segregated society at the same time. How could we recognize one evil while ignoring the other?

At some point in high school, everyone should be taught what the average stock market returns have been for the past 100 years. They should then be taught that anyone promising them more than that is probably full of shit.

Is there a cool German word for people who buy into overhyped IPOs?

#OTD in 1929, Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). This is the only footage of this remarkable girl. Let's *never* forget what the Nazis did. #WW2 #HISTORY

Anyone who has worked with ODNI knows it needs to be reformed, but anyone who is advocating its elimination without addressing the causes that led to its creation is a deeply unserious person.

This is 4.42 Marine Corps.

And more than the annual budget of all other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies combined.

For the first time, Taiwan fired its U.S.-supplied HIMARS launchers into the Taiwan Strait off a beach at a location deemed a potential landing point for China’s PLA. Read a @wsj.com report from on the ground: www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Back before Twitter went all Nazi, there was a lot of advocacy, led by Jack McCain, for the acquisition of seaplanes to be used for C/SAR in the Pacific. I thought that they were too vulnerable. A couple of years on, I think unmanned is the way to go.

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

Things the Army does not want to hear: 1) lines of supply and logistics management are the most crucial in the Pacific 2) combat units are less valuable than engineers, air defense, and transportation 3) success only comes with a joint mindset

Four percent of the sand on Normandy beaches is shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks. See the smooth sphere? It's shrapnel, sanded down to a smooth, microscopic ball. #WW2 #HISTORY

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi. And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face." Then he lied about it. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

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Imagine you’re a PLAA trooper in the first landing wave and as you exit your AAV, you’re met by a couple dozen of these. Some are reseeding the beach’s minefields, others are providing ISR for indirect fire, and several are shooting at you.

In the opening credits of WWII with Tom Hanks, you may notice the famous photo below. If you ever wondered who the soldier is that's being dragged out of the English Channel, he's from Pennsylvania. It's easily one of the top five stories of my career and earned a National Murrow for writing.

Crimean tourism advert: "You come to Crimea for the beaches. You stay cos Ukrainians are destroying are logistics system and there's no fuel to drive home afterwards"

New Taiwan-Japan ferry service debuts on ship that has war evacuation role reut.rs/4u3FWhj

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Taiwan’s geographic position is more complex than many people realize. Depending on the location, the nearest foreign territory may be closer to Japan, the Philippines, or China. 🇹🇼 #Taiwan #Maps #Geography

We have to stop providing 155mm rounds to Ukraine so we can pivot to ceasing arms sales to Taiwan so we can waste our entire inventory of TLAMs and THAAD interceptors on Iran

I would love for the Taiwanese to have a dozen of these predeployed to every one of their red beaches. www.defenseone.com/technology/2...

I will never miss an opportunity to hate on MacArthur. Even in a resourced constrained period, he could have taken rudimentary steps to prepare the Army for the coming conflict.

All they need is one more fighting season

The realist shit to ever appear in a gov memo.

Taiwan‘s New Submarine Launches MK 48 Torpedo for the First Time 🇹🇼 On May 7th, the CSBC Corporation released the video of the first Indigenous Defense Submarine (IDS) for the Taiwanese Navy, Hai Kun (SS-711) conducting her crucial weapon system verification test www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Maybe an outlier here, but I thought it sucked. Instead of some grand indictment, my feeling was it just highlighted bad unit leadership. The kind of stuff a change of command can fix.

SIPRI reports that global military spending reached US$2,887 billion in 2025, marking the 11th consecutive annual increase. Taiwan increased its military spending by 14% to US$18.2 billion and ranks 22nd globally. #Taiwan #DefenseSpending #GlobalSecurity #Geopolitics

American anti-ship missile launchers have been deployed to the Northern Philippines near the Luzon Strait in support of planned maritime strike, coastal defense and sea denial operations during Balikatan 2026 🇺🇸 🇵🇭 By @aaronmatthewil.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Who wants to take bets on whether the Ford’s deployment will last longer than Phelan’s tenure?

Best example of the danger of flak I've seen. #WW2 #HISTORY

We have to be able to hit the invasion beaches with area effect weapons. They’re small, narrow and the Chinese face a serious shortage of lift capacity.

Remember, when someone on tv does something you don’t like, it’s important to find them online and tell them off. It’s not rude, because you watch their show and that means you’re basically their client and boss.

China’s ten points to improve relations with Taiwan suggests setting up more regular mechanisms for leaders to meet, edu exchanges, and also the broadcast of “healthy” Taiwanese TV, animations, to be broadcast in China: www.gwytb.gov.cn/topone/20260...

Given the times we live in right now, this is becoming a likely outcome for Artemis II

Men get emotional about women sports,,, I just try do it in a positive way

🐾 Russian forces struck a veterinary clinic in Chabany near Kyiv, where cats and dogs were being treated and housed, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. 📹 dsns_ukraine/Instagram

Gao Zhen’s closed-door trial began yesterday. He is being accused retroactively for sculptures he made, in some cases, decades ago www.npr.org/2026/03/30/n...

**BREAKING** in the defence universe… China is serial producing Zubrs. What’s a Zubr? It’s the world’s largest hovercraft; it’s fast, it can carry tanks or 500 troops, and land them across beaches other landing craft would get stuck on… #OSINT www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

My religion? Bad

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

Military purges can consolidate power at the top. They can also weaken the very institution leaders rely on in a crisis.

One of the best things for the world to do is buy from Taiwanese and Ukrainian defense firms. Way bigger impact than simply selling or sending them equipment.