Not to be pedantic here, but this is not an "in exile" situation. Exile means they are pushed outside of their territory, while Taiwan was returned to the Republic of China in 1945 after WW2 (and retreated to Taiwan in 1949, four years later). The PRC/ROC situation is basically the same as North/South Korea, except highly asymmetric.

Actually, something as big as the Three Gorges Dam is not something you can damage with "normal" levels of force, it simply is not as vulnerable as most layman think.

Taiwan's fighters are also loosing edge. The bulk of our fighters are aging F16C/D and Mirage 2000 (French), though upgrading to the newest F16V in progress. America has been reluctant to provide the newest stuff like F35s (for all sorts of reasons).

The recently U.S. deployed F15EX looks like a very interesting new option. We will eventually need that heavy superiority to counter PRC's Su57s purchased from Russia. I wonder if that's a sale possibility.

Wonder if Elon Musk and Tesla is going to reconsider putting so many eggs in the basket that is Texas. This ideology induced power fragility is just like an inverse-styled California situation. I would not be so confident in Texas if I had to make such a major industrial manufacturing investment.

I was going to post that too, don't know what parallel universe that CNN article was reporting from.

In fact, the DPP administration here in Taiwan is vehemently against any voice to implement mass testing, citing ludicrous reasons like "too much testing is bad, there will be too many false positives", etc. If you blocked out the subjects of sentences, you would think it was something out of the Trump administration.

There is reason to strongly suspect that they're just artificially keeping the local confirmed case numbers as "zero" just for sake of political face. But the fact is that Taiwan keeps exporting COVID-19 cases to nearby places like Japan, HK, Philipines, etc., suggesting the true situation here is not as rosy as the DPP tries to advertise.

The US is late to this. This happens all the time in other countries, e.g. the infamous "1450" trolls by the DPP administration in Taiwan.

Outsourcing the nuclear part out to neighboring France doesn't really count as "phased out nuclear"

Of course one-shot cures are sustainable: after you create the cure, you GO AFTER THE NEXT DISEASE. These people are not looking for sustainable "business", they're after sustainable "passive income" (i.e. cash cows to milk without further effort). We're already giving these bio companies enormous favors of society (like government funding and patent ownership) to protect their work. This attitude is simply contemptuous.