Two women became the first military officers to marry their same-sex civilian partners at a mass military wedding in Taiwan on Friday, marking another landmark for LGBTQ+ rights in Asia.

Over 10 days, the island's troops will combine conventional war games with massive evacuation drills. Taiwan began conducting large-scale annual military exercises on land, sea, and air in 1984.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Stimson Center, about how Beijing will view Taiwan's large-scale military drills. That's the view from Taiwan, but what about ...

Taiwanese soldiers pose for a photo at the Songshan military airbase in Taipei on March 21. (I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images) One year after the conscription reform implementation, Taiwan’s military ...

While Taiwan has long emphasized deterrence, its military planning increasingly focuses on resilience – the ability to ...