Why Mutual Infrastructure Destruction Won’t Break the Ukraine Stalemate

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ting tactical bombardment. Key operational risks include: Siloing Defensive Assets: Spreading air defense units across urban and industrial centers degrades concentrated defense along active combat sectors. Asymmetric Cost Ratios: Expending million-dollar interceptors to destroy low-cost loitering munitions rapidly depletes finite missile stockpiles. Escalation Along Trade Routes: Strikes on maritime transport corridors threaten broader international shipping stability in the Black Sea. How Does an Air Defense Deficit Shift the Front Lines? Air defense is not merely a shield for city skyline safety; it is an essential prerequisite for infantry and armor survival. When interceptor stockpiles run dry, hostile air power operates with far greater freedom. Deprived of a dense air defense umbrella, defensive positions become exceptionally vulnerable to heavy glide-bomb strikes, making tactical holds near impossible regardless of damage inflicted on distant enemy infrastructure. This stark...
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Taiwan’s Fact checkers Battle Chinese Disinformation and AI

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At a restaurant nine years ago, Taiwanese engineer Charles Yeh saw his mother-in-law removing green onions from her beef noodles. She said they might damage the liver in response to Yeh's inquisitive question, citing information she had learned from a forwarded message. Yeh was perplexed by this because his family had never had any problems or complaints about eating green onions. And it was this occurrence that started Yeh's fight in Taiwan against misinformation.

With the goal of dispelling this false knowledge, Yeh composed a blog article and distributed it over the Line chat service. Soon after the post became popularity, Yeh started getting requests for more precise and up-to-date information from complete strangers. When Yeh realized how important fact-checking was, he founded MYGoPen in 2015. The name means “don’t be fooled again” in Taiwanese.

MyGoPen's user base exploded, going from 50,000 in just two years to over 400,000 at now. MyGoPen handled 1.3 million fact-check queries in 2023, dispelling myths about anything from false accusations about politicians to toxins in bananas. Other fact-checking groups like DoubleThink Lab, Cofacts, and Taiwan FactCheck Center were influenced by Yeh's work.

The danger of misinformation increased along with the number of fact-checking initiatives, particularly from China. According to the Varieties of Democracy project at the University of Göttingen, Taiwan is the main target of foreign disinformation, especially during election seasons. Taiwan leads the world in terms of China's effect on society and media, according to Doublethink Lab, which monitors China's influence in 82 nations.

A February 2023 occurrence brought this threat's seriousness to light. A video purportedly showed 100 Chinese fishing boats counterattacking close to Taiwan's Kinmen islands following a collision involving Chinese fishermen and Taiwan's coast guard. This was refuted by MyGoPen, which demonstrated that the film was from a different period and place in China.

Jaw Nian Huang, an associate professor at National Chengchi University in Taiwan, observes that Beijing has switched from direct to indirect deception tactics. For example, China indirectly questioned the United States' position toward Taiwan by using the Israel-Gaza conflicts to criticize American global politics. Because these tales are founded on opinion rather than fact, they are more difficult to refute.

The fight against misinformation is further complicated with the addition of artificial intelligence. According to a Thomson Foundation study, deepfakes and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated fake voices were widely employed during the 2024 presidential election. Eve Chu, the head of the Taiwan FactCheck Center, calls the advancement of AI "unstoppable." She draws attention to the deliberate propagation of misinformation concerning election tampering on TikTok with the intention of weakening Taiwan's democratic system.

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