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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦

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Taiwan's defense, military history, U.S.-Taiwan relations, Roosevelt Liberal. Georgetown University Security Studies Program. Go Tigers! Go Niners! 中文/ENG/FR

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · Aug 12

The Foreign Policy Research Institute just published my commentary on how the U.S. can use the Taiwan Relations Act to provide Taiwan with the military capabilities it needs as the military balance shifts across the Strait!

Taiwan Relations Act in a New Era of Security Cooperation - Foreign Policy Research Institute

For a document intended to carefully outline relations with a key US partner while navigating a region’s complex history and geopolitical realities, eight

www.fpri.org

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 3h

“good thing i like my friends canceled”

Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 6h

This is also a Zach Bryan lyric.

Zach Bryan posted a snippet of a song where he opposes ICE a few days ago.

Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 6h

For a normal person, acts less than this would revoke their security clearance.

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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 7h

Oh my. Riley Greene absolutely crushed a baseball (111.9 mph EV, 454 feet) to put the Tigers up 4-3.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 8h

Not only he won’t, he can’t.

There’s nothing he (or any POTUS) can do that will dissuade China under Xi Jinping to meaningfully abandon claims over Taiwan.

The US national defense community will also not like selling F-35s to Taiwan.

Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 8h

Lai’s right in that yes, if Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize, he should probably stop Chinese ambitions against Taiwan.

But he won’t.

If he wants Taiwan to spend more on defense, he should probably sell F-35s.

But he won’t.

A deeper reading of Lai’s words reveals Trump’s cognitive dissonance.

The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 1d

🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te says if Trump convinces Xi to abandon force against Taiwan, he should get the Nobel Peace Prize, - Reuters

Lai noted Trump claimed Xi promised no invasion while Trump is president.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 10h

DPP Member of Legislative Yuan Lee Kuen-Cheng has called for the military to investigate how Taiwan-made parts have found their way into Russian weapons, following statements by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 11h

Multiple Chinese fishing vessels operating near Taiwan used AIS spoofing to disguise their identities, an Institute for the Study of War report finds.

In one example, Chinese fishing boat MINSHIYU07792 disguised itself as Russian Navy corvette Boikiy (532).

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A Magnitude 5.0 earthquake has hit Hualien, eastern Taiwan.

A dyke upstream of the Matai'an Barrier Lake, which had burst during Typhoon Ragasa, may be damaged. The Central Weather Administration advises evacuation of the following locales:

GUANGFU TOWNSHIP
FENGLIN TOWNSHIP
WANRONG TOWNSHIP.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 1d

News from overnight: Taiwan’s elite 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion and the U.S. troops training them will redeploy from Kinmen to Penghu.

Kinmen is located just kilometers from China’s coast, while Penghu is located near the center of the Taiwan Strait.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 2d

The Taylor-Charli beef is our generation's Jomini-Clausewitz

Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 2d

This actually makes a lot of sense when you consider that Taylor Swift is incredibly Jominian.

Trust me on this.

Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 2d

200 years ago, Clausewitz wrote the theory on the back-and-forth nature of war and the dynamic of move-countermove in his seminal work "On War."

Charli xcx is realizing his vision.

Clausewitz wrote the theory, Charlsewitz xcx will do the praxis.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 3d

>Importing Russian crude oil
>Machinery going to Russia through Turkish shell companies

What are we doing here

🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 7d

❗️🇹🇼Taiwan has become the largest importer of 🇷🇺Russian oil, despite being a 🇺🇦Ukrainian ally, according to The Guardian

According to the publication, in the first half of 2025, the island imported $1.3 billion worth of Russian oil, despite joining sanctions against Moscow.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 3d

explain that

Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 3d

Nearly 23, the years are coming up on me

Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 3d

Doing alumni interviews really makes me feel like I’m unc (I’m 22)

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 3d

🇹🇼🇯🇵 Taiwan Coast Guard Administration cutter Yunlin (CG5003) conducted a joint rescue exercise with Japan Coast Guard cutter Mizuho (PLH-41) south of the Sakishima Islands in June 2025, sources tell the Yomiuri Shimbun.

The two forces first met in July 2024 and are looking to normalize ties.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 3d

Taiwan will increase supervisory personnel in the U.S. by 60% to 17 in 2025.

This is in response to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 3d

Taiwan is planning on purchasing 500 Patriot PAC-3 MSE missiles for its air force.

The move will expand Taiwan’s stockpile and improves its ability to defend Taiwan’s airspace against missiles and aircraft.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 4d

The U.S. will sell 120 M109A7 self-propelled howitzers to Taiwan, rather than the originally planned 168, due to concerns about potential delivery delays, sources tell Liberty Times.

The howitzers are expected to be delivered in two batches of 60 each.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Taiwan will receive its first shipment of PAC-3 MSE Patriot missiles by the end of the year, military sources tell Liberty Times.

The system will be deployed in eastern Taiwan.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 5d

China Coast Guard cutters "3105“ and "3103" approached restricted waters south of Pratas Island in the South China Sea on the morning of 9/30.

Taiwan Coast Guard Administration cutters TAINAN (CG126) and CIJIN (CG605) monitored the vessels.

Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 5d

Taiwan-based UAV manufacturer AbonMax says it received an order for autonomous tactical drones from a foreign client valued at over US $3.2 million.

The first batch of drones will be complete in November.

Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 6d

they also don't have the strongest military in the world.

warfighter (they/them) is how you win.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Rep. Andy Harris: "I guarantee you China and Russia do not have woke policies in their military."

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