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USA – Navy’s powerful aerial jamming pod moves to next phase (Mark Pomerleau, Defense News)

The Navy has approved the low-rate rate initial production for the first iteration of its new, powerful airborne jamming pod. Navy’s powerful aerial jamming pod...

USA – House appropriators want more cargo helos for US Army in FY22 (Jen Judson, Defense News)

The U.S. Army continued its yearslong tradition of not funding the procurement of the latest variant of the CH-47F Chinook cargo helicopter in favor of future programs in...

USA – Democratic appropriators want to spend more on weapons procurement than Biden (Joe Gould, Defense News)

Tweaking President Joe Biden’s Pentagon spending request for next year, House appropriators have proposed $1.7 billion more for weapons procurement and $1.6 billion less for...

USA/Europe/Taiwan – The case for greater US-EU collaboration on Taiwan (Philip Anstrén, Atlantic Council)

The transatlantic community is starting to coordinate on Taiwan. Speaking as the Group of Seven (G7), the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, and...

USA – Carbon border adjustment mechanisms: Will innovative climate policy launch a trade war? (Mark Linscott, Atlantic Council)

The Biden administration may only be several months old, but its statements and actions have already raised the global profile of climate issues. The...

Taiwan – The limits of indigenous hunting rights in Taiwan (Scott Simon, East Asia Forum)

On 7 May, Taiwan’s Constitutional Court made a ruling in Interpretation 803 about laws pertaining to hunting by Indigenous people. Activists had hoped the ruling would be a...

Indonesia – Urgent lessons from Indonesia’s submarine disaster (Sigit S Nugroho and Keoni Indrabayu Marzuki, East Asia Forum)

On 24 April 2021, Indonesian authorities declared that the Nanggala-402, a Navy submarine that went missing while conducting a naval exercise on 21 April, had...

Japan – Japan’s nuclear wastewater plan is clouded by politics (Yasuo Takao, East Asia Forum)

The Japanese government’s approval of a plan to discharge treated radioactive water stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean has...

USA/Taiwan – Biden wins over Taiwan (Melissa Conley Tyler, East Asia Forum)

One of US President Joe Biden’s aims is to show that ‘America is back’ by rebuilding relationships with allies and partners. But he faced...

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