Playing out on Taiwan's outlying islands: preparations for what many fear could be the world's next major flashpoint. This is part of Han Kuang, Taiwan's annual military exercises. Active units and reservists mobilized all over the island, reacting to a simulated invasion from China.

To build a real “drone shield,” Taiwan cannot merely export hardware or components.

An investigation by Reporters Without Borders has exposed how Wubianjie Group, a China-based digital marketing company, covertly injected pro-Beijing political messaging into Taiwanese lifestyle Facebook pages reaching tens of millions of users — a pattern corroborated by earlier Taiwanese government and academic research.

Occupational therapist Lim Siong-hua arrives for every workday at her hospital carrying a backpack stuffed with books, water and survival gear. She ditches the elevator, climbing 11 flights before descending to her ninth-floor office. Lim, 37, is training for an invasion. She wants to be prepared and fit enough to get her 3-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son to safety if China starts raining missiles onto Taiwan.

A trend of "Chinamaxing" has swept the Western internet world, with people imitating Chinese lifestyles such as drinking warm water and taking off their shoes when entering a house. Scholar Austin Horng-En Wang pointed out that this trend is more like young people being quirky, rather than the "sudden surge in pro-China sentiment among American youth" that the media is worried about.

OpenAI, the developer of the chatbot ChatGPT, released a report indicating that the Chinese government used ChatGPT to generate images and text to launch cyberattacks. Scholar Austin Horng-En Wang pointed out today that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) has made related cyberattacks and cognitive warfare larger in scale and lower in cost.

Taiwanese researchers and security officials are sounding the alarm after CCP-linked content farms were caught using AI-generated propaganda, while accidentally leaving behind prompts showing the posts were tailored specifically for Taiwanese audiences

The Russia-Ukraine conflict, now in its third year, continues to be a focal point of attention for the people of Taiwan. This is because, at the time of the Russian invasion, many were concerned that the Taiwan Strait was another geopolitical hot spot where war might erupt.