Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦

Not sure if you caught this, but MND source tells Liberty Times that the delivery of Patriot PAC-3 MSEs to Taiwan will likely be delayed because of this

Quite frankly, I'm not sure what's more embarrassing here:

1. Rubio doesn't know who Chiang Kai-shek is

or

2. "Unleash Chiang" was a slogan of US policymakers who wanted to pull back the Seventh Fleet and let Chiang try to invade the PRC during the Korean War. Who exactly is Chiang here? Bibi?

Kuwaiti F/A-18 pilot scoring three air-to-air kills in quick succession:

Same number of VLS cells

ROCN OHP Replacement FFG

Military aircraft near Taiwan observed by military blogger Taiwan ADIZ:

2/27
USN P-8A (AE67BD), MQ-4C (AE6257)
2/28
USN MQ-4C (AE6257), P-8As (AE6803, AE67EE)
3/1
USN P-8A (AE67EE)
USAF KC-135R (AE0683)
3/2
USN P-8As (AE67CB, AE6803, AE67BD)
3/3
USN P-8As (AE68B8, AE67BD)
PLA 7A2ED2

I remember when Rakuten had to clarify that, despite having the same name in Chinese, they were not the same company as Lotte.

South Korea faced an incredible amount of Chinese backlash to have THAAD deployed in the country, so much so that it banned K-Pop.

Imagine being Robert Gates and seeing the THAADs you fought tooth and nail to deploy in Korea be removed for no reason.

antisemitism among young people is:
-heavily rewarded on tiktok and other youth-heavy social media
-not confined to any one ideology
-often directed explicitly at jewish people and jewishness, not israel

guessing we’re tapping the strategic petroleum reserve again even though it’s down ~50% from pre-Russian invasion levels and oil is $70 a barrel. guys it’s supposed to be for emergencies not whenever you get scared your foreign policy is unpopular

i genuinely don't know. what's got me - and everyone i know in this business - concerned is that there's no clear off-ramp for the US and iran is clearly in an "escalate to deescalate" mood

The issue with “bomb them til they surrender” is that they might not surrender

To think a well-placed copy of Robert Pape’s “Bombing to Win” would have prevented all this from happening…

To think that if there was a beer league softball team for him to coach, America would not have to deal with him as SecDef

Regime change, but make it even worse

Wait — IRGC control of the country was the plan?!?

It’s 2026 AD, Kimon is fighting the Persians.

It’s 450 BC, Kimon is fighting the Persians.

It’s 465 BC, Kimon is fighting the Persians.

It’s 477 BC, Kimon is fighting the Persians.

It’s 480 BC, Kimon is fighting the Persians.

No it’s fine, I just didn’t expect the Battle of Coral Sea

Additionally, this proposal, like Donald Trump's recent comments, contravene the Six Assurances.

They aren't laws, but they are norms that every president, beginning with Reagan, has followed in some way.

You say you want the US to neither be involved in a war, so you oppose replenishing Taiwan's ammunition supply?

That's calling for us to die faster so you can ignore us sooner.

Taiwan in Time: Refugees shot on sight - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Han Cheung on the Leiyu Massacre of Vietnamese boat people in 1987
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
#Taiwan

A CM-11 tank of the 2nd Battalion, 269th Combined Arms "Lion" Brigade, Taiwan Army, on a combat readiness patrol in northern Taiwan, 3/1/2026.

We don't want to be pulled into another war either.

It's silly to think that you will not feel the impact of a Taiwan Strait contingency.

Also, Taiwan having more to shoot back with will absolutely increase Taiwan's credible "power to hurt," which boosts deterrence.

Taiwan has received over $70 million USD in royalties from new F-16V sales and retrofitted upgrades, military sources tell Liberty Times.

Taiwan's AIDC led the development of the upgrade suite's radar and avionics systems.

(our artillery is not very good)

PLARF only operates the Dongfeng series of cruise and ballistic missiles. The PLA Army operates long-range rocket artillery like the PHL-191.

And they’re missing out on commerce in some of the largest ports in the world (Guangzhou, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Xiamen)

Also that there will be less shipping, considering that ships get sunk/damaged and insurance companies will either refuse to cover or dramatically raise rates for ships in the area

Normally, shipping from SEA to Japan goes through the Taiwan Strait, where 1. the distance is closer and 2. ships can pick up and drop off cargo in Chinese ports along the coast, making them more money.

If the Taiwan Strait becomes impassable, that makes it much more expensive for Japan to trade