Meng Kit Tang is a Singaporean freelance analyst and commentator who works as an aerospace engineer. He graduated from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), NTU, Singapore in 2025. His research interests include cross-Strait relations, Taiwan politics and policy issues, and aerospace technology.
The London Turn: Taiwan’s Best Remaining Path to Fighter Independence
Taiwan’s cancelled Advanced Defence Fighter programme exposed a persistent dependence on US-controlled propulsion and combat-systems integration, limiting its ability to achieve true aerospace autonomy despite decades of indigenous capability development.…
The Managed Bluff: How China Wins the Taiwan Strait Without Firing a Shot
China’s sustained coercion against Taiwan increasingly functions as a “managed bluff,” generating strategic leverage without crossing the threshold into full-scale war, as the economic, political, and military costs of invasion…