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Four People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) ships were detected by Taiwan from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. local time on April 7th–8th. Taiwan has deployed coastal missile systems and naval vessels in response to the PLAN presence. The flight paths were not given this time due to no PLA aircraft being detected on the median line of the Taiwan Strait or...

The planned meeting between former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will now be held on April 10th. The meeting was originally scheduled to be held on April 8th, after Ma and the student delegation he is leading arrived in Beijing. However, the delegation received notice of the new itinerary on April 6th during their visit to the...

Taiwan's military will hold a series of live-fire exercises starting on April 9th and lasting until the 17th, notably testing the Land Sword II Missile at Jiupeng Military Base on April 9th. Other drills will also take place, such as the Shen Ying, Shen Gong, and Lei Ting exercises. The Lei Ting exercise involves launching the MK15, MK30, and MK45 rockets...

Vice Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT), Andrew Hsia, will travel to the United States from April 4th until April 15th for a tabletop exercise hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Yang Chih-yu, a KMT spokesperson, said Hsia and Alexander C. Huang, Director of Foreign Affairs, received an invitation to the U.S.-Japan-Taiwan Track 2 tabletop exercises. Hsia will...

The United States said that the U.S.-based company RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies) will upgrade Taiwan’s Early Warning Radar (EWR). The Department of Defense announced that the company awarded the contract to RTX on March 22, 2024, through a statement released on the government’s contract award website. The announcement said that RTX is the only business that can meet the government’s...