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Three years ago, Taiwanese media reported that the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology was developing three new missiles: the Tien Kung III (Sky Bow III, 天弓三) surface-to-air low-altitude air defense missile; the Tien Chien II (Sky Sword II, 天劍二) medium-range air-to-air missile; and the Hsiung Feng IIIE (Brave Wind IIIE, 增程雄風三), an extended range variant of the Hsiung Feng III supersonic anti-ship cruise missile. The weapons, which are reportedly ready for mass production, represent a huge leap forward in realizing the military’s “multilayered deterrence” s...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is in its seventh day, with Russian President Vladimir Putin showing no signs of watering down his maximalist objective of decapitating the pro-Western Ukrainian government and subsuming the country into his neo-imperial Russian empire, alongside Belarus. The unprovoked invasion of a European nation outside of NATO’s nuclear-backed defensive umbrella has highlighted the limitations of the Cold War-era doctrine of mutually assured destruction. The notion that the threat of a general nuclear war acts as a deterrent against state-on-state aggression is now in tatt...