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REPORT: TAIWAN FIRES ITS HIMARS TOWARD THE MAINLAND — A FIRST SHOT THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
On June 10, 2026, somewhere on the western shore of Taiwan, HIMARS launchers turned their tubes toward the Taiwan Strait — toward, for the…
REPORT: RESOLUTE DRAGON 2026, 9,600 SOLDIERS ON THE EDGE OF THE INDO-PACIFIC
On June 20, 2026, at Camp Kengun in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, Lieutenant General Seiji Toriumi, commander of the Western Army of the Japan Ground…
ANALYSIS: CANADA "RECALIBRATES" ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA — A PERILOUS BALANCE
On June 24, 2026, in Tokyo, Canadian Defence Minister David McGuinty chose his words with surgical precision. The sentence he delivered before Bloomberg deserves…
REPORT: Taiwan on a war footing — 5 days of exercises to learn to survive China's attack
On June 22, 2026, at dawn, columns of tanks and armored vehicles from Taiwan's 269th Infantry Brigade began patrolling National Highway 31, in the…
INVESTIGATION: Beijing's 155mm naval supergun — the siege weapon aimed at Taiwan from the sea
There is something anachronistic, almost cinematic, about the image of a 155-millimeter cannon mounted on the bow of a modern destroyer. The era of…
ANALYSIS: PL-16 VS AIM-260 — THE AIR-TO-AIR MISSILE RACE REDRAWING THE PACIFIC SKY
In the air wars of the future, one truth imposes itself: combat will no longer be won at close range, in tight turns where…
DECODING: THE DF-17 HYPERSONIC FILMED IN FLIGHT — A MESSAGE FOR WASHINGTON AND TAIPEI
On June 20, 2026, in the vast arid expanse of the Gobi Desert, Chinese military vehicles executed a carefully filmed choreography. Mobile launchers of…
OPINION: The tariff lottery — when Trump draws the world's trade destinies at random
Imagine you run a business in Singapore, Johannesburg or Manila. You have been exporting to the United States for decades. You follow
ANALYSIS: Beijing, the US-Iran Deal, and the Great Taiwanese Calculation — What the ISW Reveals
On June 18, 2026, the Institute for the Study of War published its weekly China & Taiwan Update. On paper, it is