China is using every tool short of war to wear Taiwan down. Now, it’s sharpening that approach with a different kind of threat: Drones. Taipei must do the same. It can’t match Beijing’s military might, so it will need to lean on these cheaper, smarter tools instead. The homegrown drone industry is central to this strategy — we saw this play out in real time when Ukraine developed its own autonomous sector in record time in response to Russia’s invasion — but Taiwan is a long way from rivaling China in the skies.

Full report : A Battle of the Drones Looms Between China and Taiwan.