Day: March 22, 2025

Taiwan’s defense ministry detected 47 Chinese military aircraft and 7 naval vessels operating around the country within a 24-hour window. Of those, 41 aircraft breached the Taiwan Strait’s median line and entered the island’s air defense identification zone, marking the second-largest single-day incursion of 2025 so far. Reporter(s): John Su/Chris Gorin#TaiwanPlus #TaiwanPlusNews #TaiwanNews #ADIZ #military #drills #Taiwanstrait #warship #aircraft-

Joining us in person for the first time is GUERMANTES ‘G-MAN’ LAILARI. He is a retired US Air Force Foreign Area Officer specializing in the Middle East and Europe, as well as strategy, irregular warfare, and missile defense. He’s also a visiting researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taipei.

Chinese social media has been awash with a new map and video claiming for China not just features within the 10-dash line, but the Philippine island of Palawan, which has sat outside that line. In the video, Palawan has been renamed “Zheng He Island” after the famous Chinese explorer of the 1300s. And on March 13, Manila said three Filipinos have been detained in China’s Hainan Province on allegations of espionage.Our guests:Kuo Yu-jen National Sun Yat-sen University Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Studies Professor and DirectorYen-Pin Su National Chengchi University Department of Political Science ProfessorChapters00:00:00 Palawan: China-Philippines Tensions00:01:13 Controversy on Palawan Claim Online00:10:06 China Alleges Filipinos Espionage Involvement 00:16:30 Beijing: Defends Duterte from ICC arrest 00:19:48 Two More Chinese Arrested for Spying

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Japanese counterpart Takeshi Iwaya on March 22 co-chaired the sixth China-Japan High-Level Economic Dialogue in Tokyo.

Many like to compare Tesla with BYD. They tend to ignore BYD’s hidden crisis. Despite a record-breaking financing activity and stock prices, investors of China’s EV giant BYD should worry about the company’s prospect. BYD’s publicity work appears far superior than its production and product quality. BYD has 4 debilitating conditions that will turn the Chinese EV giant into the next Evergrande, due to similar unsustainable ambition:0:45 Lack of technological innovation8:00 Hidden debts9:30 A fragile supply chain13:52 Overdependence on government policies