A look at the security environment facing Taiwan in the upcoming year. By December 18, 2020 A Taiwanese soldier watches from an M60A3 Patton tank during a military exercises in Taichung, central Taiwan, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. Credit: AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying Advertisement Following the 2020 U.S. presidential election, many observers asserted that China-U.S. relations, what have been strained most of the time over the past three years, will see a change, most likely for the better. Judging from the moves taken by the militaries of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in the air and under the sea during this same period, we can see that both sides have taken advantage of the occasion to expand their respective freedom of movement – whether through military exercises made known to the public or in clandestine ways.