CSP Senior Fellow Grant Newsham joined a Taiwan Talks panel to discuss multinational exercises including...
CSP Senior Fellow Grant Newsham joined a Taiwan Talks panel to discuss multinational exercises including Orient Shield by US allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific. “In Exercise Veer Guardian, Japanese F-2 fighter jets are deploying to India for the first time as part of four overlapping multinational exercises including Orient Shield by US allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific. Tokyo will also be training with Australia, South Korea, Canada and New Zealand in a series of increasingly complex drills designed to strengthen interoperability and regional deterrence. With an increasing number of these layered mini-alliances forming and rehearsing, is this a deliberate strategy by the US and Japan to create a new allied model of defense?…Open
Taipei is known for its vibrant food scene, from large wet markets to iconic street foods and world-famous dumplings. LiveNOW’s Anna Marsick speaks with Taipei Eats co-founder Mike Lee, who takes us through one of Taipei’s food markets and shares a taste of the city’s culinary culture.
A Taiwanese man who used his robot vacuum's live camera feed to record his wife's affair won $17,000 in civil damages, then got sentenced to five months in prison for the very same footage. The case, first reported by the South China Morning Post, reads like a cautionary tale about smart-home surveillance and the legal […] The post Taiwanese husband jailed for catching wife's affair on robot vacuum camera appeared first on American Almanac .
A Taiwanese man who used his robot vacuum's live camera feed to record his wife's affair won $17,000 in civil damages, then got sentenced to five months in prison for the very same footage. The case, first reported by the South China Morning Post , reads like a cautionary tale about smart-home surveillance and the legal lines that even a wronged spouse cannot cross. The unnamed man married his wife in 2021. By September 2023, he had reason to suspect something was wrong. He found a used toothbrush at the couple's holiday home, one that didn't belong to either of them. He pulled security footage from the property's parking garage. It showed another man driving his wife home. That was enough to set the next step in motion. A robot vacuum…Open
The administration promised clear priorities but delivered global interventionism. The post Trump’s Wars Have Created Disturbing Military Readiness Crisis appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Trump’s Wars Have Created Disturbing Military Readiness Crisis The administration promised clear priorities but delivered global interventionism. In his preface to the 2026 National Defense Strategy , Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth promised a decisive break from the past: an American approach to the world that set clear priorities. “We recognize that it is neither America’s duty nor in our nation’s interest to act everywhere on our own,” he wrote. “Instead, the Department will prioritize the most important, consequential, and dangerous threats to Americans’ interests.” The Trump administration has…Open
Chinese military aircraft and naval vessels conduct operations near Taiwan as tensions rise across the Taiwan Strait. Beijing is increasingly focused on blockade scenarios and studying lessons from modern warfare, including the ongoing conflict involving [...]
A satellite view of Yagong Reef in the Crescent Group of the Paracel Islands of the South China Sea, August 17, 2026. Vantor/Handout via REUTERS Reported by: Cherry Meigh TimbolNews Content Editor Published August 27, [...]
Ending the conflict would deprive U.S. rivals of a vehicle for retaliation. The post How to Stop Chinese, Russian Support for Iran’s War Efforts appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs How to Stop Chinese, Russian Support for Iran’s War Efforts Ending the conflict would deprive U.S. rivals of a vehicle for retaliation. Washington policymakers are easily shocked. They expect U.S. primacy. Even in war they presume deference to Washington. Easy victories. Pliable enemies. International support. Yet such events almost never happen. Certainly, the surprise February attack on Iran, again amid negotiations, produced none of these results, despite President Donald Trump’s apparent assumptions to the contrary. He seems to have expected surviving Iranian officials to seek his approval before appointing new…Open
