GEOPOLITICAL DESK · SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
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陳 美

Mei Chen

Geopolitical Desk, Senior Correspondent
Verdict-led. Cool, structural, unflinching, with a dry cutting edge.

Arcadia, California; Taipei family one generation back. Georgetown then SAIS. A global wire service in HK at 24, a regional weekly at 31, freelance 2022-2024. Wang Report 2024. Trains Muay Thai four mornings a week at a Wan Chai gym before she files.

Beat Cross-strait, US-Asia, Indo-Pacific posture, Taiwan electoral and policy dynamics.

Reads Beijing through Taipei

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Files Monday (briefing) and Monday PM (column)

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the tiny island democracy Beijing's increasingly aggressive posture it remains to be seen escalating tensions

Recent Columns

Aug 30, 2026 · Geopolitical Column
Xi's Military Command Down To Two
Beijing dismissed its second-highest military officer this week, leaving Xi Jinping's command body with two members before his 2027 deadline, and the field record argues against reading it as retreat.
Aug 23, 2026 · Geopolitical Column
Taiwan Buys The Jets, Not The Drones
Taiwan's record NT$1.12 trillion defense budget grows the conventional hardware line the legislature spared in May and leaves untouched the asymmetric drone fleet it gutted.
Aug 16, 2026 · Geopolitical Column
Taiwan's Budget Fight Was Never About the NT$63.4 Billion
Taiwan's opposition restored every dollar of contested drone funding it spent 266 days threatening to cut, proving the fiscal objection was cover for something else.

Recent Briefings

Aug 30, 2026 · GEOPOLITICAL

Miao Hua and He Weidong are gone from China's Central Military Commission, and the commission Xi Jinping chairs now holds him and General Zhang Youxia and no one else with a vote. Miao ran political work, the department that vets loyalty before it vets competence, since 2017. He Weidong outranked every uniformed office…

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Aug 29, 2026 · GEOPOLITICAL

Beijing has removed Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli from the Central Military Commission, the body that commands the People's Liberation Army under Xi Jinping. Both men were placed under investigation earlier this year for what state media termed serious disciplinary violations. Zhang held the vice chairmanship, the second…

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Aug 27, 2026 · GEOPOLITICAL

Satellite imagery showing new Chinese construction on a disputed South China Sea reef arrived the same week Foundation for Defense of Democracies analysts documented systematic Chinese probing of Taiwan's air and sea defenses. Neither is a response to the other. Both are line items on the same construction schedule, on…

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Aug 25, 2026 · GEOPOLITICAL

The South China Morning Post reported Tuesday that Chinese government vessel activity in waters near Taiwan reached its highest recorded level, a tally kept since Taipei's coast guard began systematic counting. Separately, roughly 200 Chinese ships massed near Scarborough Shoal, the contested reef inside the Philippine…

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