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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicTaiwan CHina relations

Topic: Taiwan CHina relations

Taiwan shows off new US tanks on second day of annual war games

M1A2T Abrams tanks are traditional weapons that, analysts say, will need to be increasingly protected against drones in future battles, given lessons from Ukraine war.

Taiwan detects 21 Chinese aircraft, 8 naval vessels in its territory

The Ministry of National Defence detected that 16 out of 21 sorties crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait & entered the island's air defence identification zones (ADIZ).

Taiwan detects 62 Chinese military aircraft, 27 navy ships around its air defence zone

Of these, 47 of the aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan's southwest, southeast and eastern Air Defence Identification Zone.

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New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?