Day: December 15, 2025

Beijing has put sanctions on Japan’s former top military official, Iwasaki Shigeru, for his work as an advisor to Taiwan’s Cabinet. Iwasaki is barred from entering China and any assets he may have there have been frozen. It comes after weeks of tensions between Tokyo and Beijing following Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s comments that Japan’s military could intervene if China used force against Taiwan.📹 Reporter(s): TaiwanPlus#TaiwanPlus #TaiwanPlusNews #TaiwanNews #China #sanction #Japan #Tokyo #cabinet #politician –

In November 2025, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released its annual report to Congress, highlighting Beijing’s pursuit of an ambitious and coordinated whole-of-government space strategy aimed at establishing China as the leading world power in space. As part of that strategy, China is expanding its space launch, satellite manufacturing, and on-orbit space infrastructure to give the People’s Liberation Army a battlefield advantage, power civilian and commercial innovation, and generate economic growth and development.Please join the CSIS Aerospace Security Project on Wednesday, December 17, 2025, at 3:30 p.m. ET, for a virtual discussion with Hon. Randall Schriver, vice chair of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission; Michael Kuiken, commissioner of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission; Kari Bingen, director of the CSIS Aerospace Security Project; and Clayton Swope, deputy director of the Aerospace Security Project. The conversation will examine China’s space strategy, its implications to U.S. national and economic security, and how the United States should respond to China’s growing space power.

China and Russia just teamed up for provocative military action next to South Korea and Japan and the goal is clear—TOTAL WAR.

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🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and special events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletterHow might a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan unfold? China’s anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) strategy—a combination of missiles, submarines, sensors, and air defenses—is designed specifically to block and disrupt US air, sea, and even space and cyber power.But the true outcome of the operation will hinge on the rapid mobilization of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) ground forces, argues recently retired four-star general Charles Flynn, former commander of U.S. Army Pacific.He warns that the real “center of gravity” of a Chinese invasion will lie in its ability to rapidly assemble, deploy, and transport land forces across the Taiwan Strait.“What keeps me up at night is their ability to actually pull that off in 96 hours,” Flynn says.He is convinced that building a “strategic land power network” and forging deep, enduring ties with partner armies in Asia will be vital to deterring the Chinese regime.In this episode, Flynn lays out a roadmap for how the U.S. military should rethink its strategy, technology, and partnerships to deter Beijing and safeguard its allies in the Indo-Pacific.“This century is going to be defined by the relationship between the United States and China. … We’ve said we’ve pivoted to the Pacific for more than a decade, and in actual behavior and actions, that’s not accurate,” Flynn says.Before commanding U.S. Army Pacific, Flynn served as the Army’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans and Training (G3/5/7). He is the brother of General Michael Flynn, former national security advisor to President Donald Tru

France’s Emmanuel Macron has completed a state visit to China, his fourth as president. At the top of his agenda: the economy and the Russia-Ukraine War. In contrast to Xi Jinping’s one-hour talk in South Korea with US President Donald Trump, the Xi-Macron meeting in Beijing and trip together to Sichuan Province — including a visit to see the pandas — certainly appeared more friendly. What is behind Xi’s charm offensive? And what did Macron accomplish? Meanwhile, the German foreign minister also made a recent trip to Beijing, saying “Freedom, security and prosperity in Germany and Europe are closely linked to China.” In this episode, we discuss EU-China relations, the foreign policies of France and Germany, and what these developments potentially means for peace and security in Europe and the Taiwan Strait.

World War III will not be fought with the weapons you think. China’s latest weapons tech is much more advanced—and it’s so secretive even the US government can’t figure out what China will do next.

In a nutshell, China’s latest big push to rev up spending? It’s a head-scratcher. Six top government outfits just dropped a blueprint to flood the market with more stuff—trillions in green gadgets, health fads, and kid toys—by cranking up factories with AI magic. Sounds swell, right? Except economists here are high-fiving like it’s genius, blind to the real glitch: we’ve got too much junk piling up, not enough wallets to buy it.Flash back: Crises hit when machines outpace paychecks, sparking everything from colonies to world wars. America kept the peace by snapping up our exports—until their debt mountain said “enough.” Now, with trade walls rising, Beijing’s fix? Make even more. It’s like curing a hangover by chugging another round, rooted in 5,000 years of famine fears. Folks, this scarcity ghost is about to haunt us all over again. Wake-up call? Overdue.

In this episode of DC Insiders by TaiwanPlus, Host Wenchi Yu speaks with Erin Murphy of CSIS about how undersea fiber‑optic cables—carrying over 95 percent of global internet and data traffic—have become critical infrastructure at the center of economic growth, AI, cloud computing, and telehealth worldwide, including in Taiwan’s high-tech, export‑driven economy. Against the backdrop of rising U.S.-China competition, the conversation explores how Taiwan’s dense cable links and strategic location make it both a digital hub and a potential vulnerability, as subsea systems face threats ranging from espionage and sabotage to gray‑zone coercion. Murphy discusses recent incidents and emerging risks, then outlines what governments, companies, and international partners can do to harden infrastructure, improve redundancy, and build cooperative frameworks to secure these “invisible lifelines” that underpin modern life from the Indo‑Pacific to the Atlantic.#TaiwanPlus #TaiwanPlusNews #TaiwanNews-

The recently unveiled U.S. National Security Strategy has ruffled liberal and even some conservative feathers both here and abroad, for two reasons: No. 1, the Trump administration told Europe an inconvenient truth: The birthplace of Western civilization is facing “civilization erasure.” And No. 2, critics feel that the strategy is not critical enough of Russia and China.They’re wrong.An entire section, “Economic Security,” is a not-so-subtle nod to America’s ongoing, great power competition with China, evident in these carefully selected priorities: “balanced trade,” ”securing access to critical supply chains and materials,” “reindustrialization,” “reviving our defense industrial base,” etc.The other controversy is: Why does the strategy call for an end to the Russia-Ukraine war and not just openly condemn Vladimir Putin instead? Because the assessment is grounded in reality. Unless the Europeans want to spend more than the already mandated 5% of GDP on defense budgets and pour more sophisticated weapons systems into Ukraine, then the conflict has no clear end in sight: “Do you wanna have an ongoing bleeding Stalingrad or Verdun … right on the borders of Europe,” asks Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

China vs Japan Standoff EXPLODES: Chinese & Japanese Ships Clash In Disputed Island | WION China and Japan’s coast guards have given different accounts of a confrontation that occurred near a group of geopolitically sensitive islands in the East China Sea. China’s Coast Guard said on Tuesday that a Japanese fishing vessel had illegally entered the waters of the Senkaku Islands – which Beijing calls the Diaoyu Islands and claims as Chinese territory, despite their being administered by Japan. Join us live to know more on this!#japa