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The Taiwan Strait has become a zone of constant pressure, where military routine has become an instrument of hegemony. Patrols, exercises, and flights create an infrastructure of pressure, not random incidents.

Since last autumn, tensions between Taiwan’s executive and legislative branches have once again intensified. The dispute should be attributed to the fundamental disagreement over the 2026 budget, since both parties’ approaches to forming it diverge drastically.

The security conference revealed, under the Bavarian chandeliers, the strategic fatigue of a West that still speaks as it did in 1945 but no longer imposes its will as it did yesterday.