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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦

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Georgetown University Security Studies Program. Taiwan's defense and military history, U.S.-Taiwan relations. Detroit Tigers watcher. 中文/上海话/ENG/FR

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 6h
Taiwan is a sovereign and democratic state, and it will be for the foreseeable future.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 7h
No comment on whether Taiwan will transfer the decommissioned patrol boat ROCS Chin Chiang to the Philippines, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense says. The chair of the Legislative Yuan's National Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, Ma Wen-chun (KMT), has expressed concern.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 15h
Various Taiwan (ROC) Army and Air Force aircraft participating in a partial rehearsal for the National Day flyover, 9/30/2026. Photos: Military News Agency
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The US is helping Taiwan secure non-monetary compensation for delays in F-16C/D Block 70 deliveries. Possible compensation can include additional maintenance support.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🇺🇦 Zelensky: Babyn Yar. 85th anniversary of the tragedy. One of the largest sites of mass murders committed by the Nazis in Europe. A place of great pain and our memory of all the victims of the Holocaust.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
✈️🔥 Photo report from Tu-95 crash site
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Say what you want about Russia, but which other country has made South Korea, Taiwan, China, and Japan find each other tolerable?
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Texas National Security Review @tnsr.org · 28/09/2026
Was George H. W. Bush truly a foreign policy realist? In our latest article, Samuel Helfont challenges this myth. He argues that Bush 41 practiced a disciplined liberal internationalism, from the Gulf War to Somalia. Read more at tnsr.org/2026/09/libe... @samuelhelfont.bsky.social
Scholar | "Liberal Internationalism Forgotten: Myth and Memory in the Legacy of George H. W. Bush" by Samuel Helfont
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Taiwan (ROC) Armed Forces will spend US$867 million from 2026 to 2031 to expand its ammunition stores to last 120 days. Current ammunition stockpiles last around 30 days.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
Taiwan must deepen drone cooperation with democratic partners, president says reut.rs/3Tq8Fka
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Taiwan must deepen drone cooperation with democratic partners, president says
Taiwan must deepen cooperation with its democratic partners on developing drones ​which are crucial to fighting modern warfare, President ‌Lai Ching-te said on Monday.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I had some extremely good and extremely cheap sushi here, highly recommend
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is about as insane as it gets. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Trump asked China's president if he wants to buy US arms, ambassador says
The U.S. ambassador to China says President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy weapons from the United States.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 27/09/2026
Excellent news to see that the Dutch ban on importing goods from the illegally occupied West Bank and Golan Heights also applies to "private passengers who are bringing in products as souvenirs or gifts."
timesofisrael.com
Dutch customs authorities search luggage of El Al passengers as new ban on bringing in items from West Bank settlements, Golan takes effect
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The reason the US placed an arms embargo on China is because of the June 4th Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Remember this when Republicans invoke the atrocity to score political points.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
President Lai Ching-te and Minister of National Defense Wellington Koo visit a command post during Exercise Lu Sheng I (Land Victory I), Chiayi, southwestern Taiwan, October 2025. Photo: Military News Agency
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 27/09/2026
Russia occupies Oleshky. Around 2,000 civilians remain and run out of food, medicine, water and electricity. Russia, as the occupying power, is responsible for facilitating humanitarian relief. Ukraine found another way in: its forces delivered ~4 tons of food by drone to 100 locations across town.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Incredible that I’m the only person in my fantasy football league with a player who went to their high school, considering I went to high school in Shanghai, China
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From 1990 and 1991, Soviet operatives attacked Lithuanian border posts, killing eight border guards, injuring 60.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Beyond two parking tickets for not moving his vehicle during snowstorms, Abdullah has no criminal record in Minnesota and was working legally as a mechanic while his asylum application was pending. He arrived in the United States in early 2023.”
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pro-DPP poll, but a consistent trend among polls in Taiwan is that Lai's approval is rising
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Poll finds satisfaction with Taiwan government performance at 62.1% - Rti
Public satisfaction with Taiwan’s government performance rose to 62.1%, the highest level in s...
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The ROC (Taiwan) Navy plans to add 200 HF-2 Performance Improvement Variant and HF-3 anti-ship missiles to its arsenal of 1,200 anti-ship missiles by 2035. The HF-2PIV will have little to no external differences but will be more resistant to electronic warfare.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think two things can be true: 1. Trump will not outright make a deal for Taiwan. 2. Trump’s actions toward Taiwan (and other allies) are deeply concerning and weaken allied deterrence.
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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the summit didn't do shit lol
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This Mid-Autumn Festival, I hope for a world where everyone can be together with their loved ones, and a world where we are all united in pursuit of human liberty.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s that Donald Trump would invoke the Flying Tigers, a unit in what became the ROC Air Force, which still exists in Taiwan and honors their memory. On the other hand, China erased the Nationalist roundel on an I-16.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
French aerospace defense firm Dassault Aviation will join the Minxiong Aerospace Park in Chiayi, southwestern Taiwan, set to open on 9/28. The site will serve as Taiwan's main hub for aerospace and drone R&D and play a crucial role in a democratic drone supply chain.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Taiwan (ROC) Air Force will establish a Security Brigade in 2027. The unit will defend deployed air defense sites, including Patriots, TK-3s, and NASAMS.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Taiwan (ROC) Military Police will expand from about 5,600 to about 11,000 over the next five years and, as part of the force's reforms, focus on defending Taipei against decapitation and infiltration operations.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just had this interaction with an Uber driver from Shandong
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Philippine Air Force priest blessing Bell 412EPX helicopter, September 2026.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chinese media allowed at WH. American media banned in defiance of a court order.
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Mr. Trump called the Chinese leader 'an expert on stone' who 'loves good granite' as Mr. Xi stood by without changing his expression." As a former interpreter, I am sending solidarity to the poor soul who had to translate this while maintaining diplomatic decorum
nytimes.com
Live Updates: Trump Greets Xi at White House, Where Pomp May Mask Tensions
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Turret detail showing the gunner sight, RWS with M2 machine gun and CITV sight, XT112 105mm low-pressure gun, and T74V1 coaxial machine gun
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Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pro-Chinese Communist Party welcoming group waiting for Xi Jinping’s motorcade to pass on the way to the White House. Some Chinese embassy staff also here, helping to organize “areas of responsibility” and hats
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The ROC (Taiwan) Army demonstrated the maneuverability and firepower of the Clouded Leopard 105mm armored fighting vehicle on 9/23. The final production vehicle, which is expected to enter mass production soon, will also have counter-drone slat armor.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Taking a Chinese leader's wife to a gallery formerly named after the Opioids Family is totally VEEP material
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do feel bad for the sailors, overwhelmingly already people with very hard lives coming from developing countries, who are bearing the brunt of this
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
went on a walk in our nation's capital
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“We saw you from across the political economics seminar and really liked your vibe, can we buy you a drink?”
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not at all the most important point on Xi Jinping's visit to the US, but his plane did circle Akron on its way to DC.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 23/09/2026
For the first time ever, a group of Senate Democrats will unveil a bill tomorrow that would impose sanctions on "foreign companies, individuals or other entities" which are involved in the E1 settlement project in the illegally-occupied West Bank. Its authors are Warren, Coons, Gallego and Wyden.
reuters.com
US Senate Democrats seek sanctions over Israeli settlements, bill says
A group of US Senate Democrats will introduce legislation on Wednesday to sanction individuals or ​groups that facilitate Israel's "E1 project," a widely condemned West Bank settlement plan cutting ac...
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1. Most Taiwanese people lived in Taiwan before the KMT existed. 2. The KMT, or "the nationalist government," openly promotes closer ties with China.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The number of Taiwanese people in China have halved since 2012 and are at a historic low.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If your reaction to this is, “we can do whatever we want because Taiwan has no choice” and not “how do we help Taiwan have choice,” you are not much different than the administration.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Insinuating that the Chiang family, people who imprisoned Taiwan independence activists, were “secessionist” might actually be the most YouTube history thing out there.
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The 51st @51st.news · 23/09/2026
The D.C. metro area lost 104,000 jobs between January 2025 and January 2026, far more than any other major metropolitan area in the country. That's one factor contributing to a local increase in food insecurity, @samdelgado.bsky.social reports:
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Food insecurity in the DC area hits a new high
Cuts to SNAP, surging costs, and federal layoffs are making it difficult for District residents to put food on the table.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thunderbolt 2000s launched a total of 273 rounds in this exercise
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Will Yale @wayale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Make it make sense!
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If the administration caves to Xi's demands, it has no right to ask why Taiwan is hostile toward the US or why it resists defense modernization. In fact, almost all hostility in Taiwan toward the US today stems from viewing the US as an undesirable partner.
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: China's Xi expected to press Trump to halt Taiwan arms sales under 1982 agreement, sources say
China regularly ‌describes the issue of Taiwan, which Beijing views as its own territory, as its most sensitive and important diplomatic issue and has repeatedly called for arms sales to stop.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t think tactical proficiency is a problem in the American military
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