Logo

American Security Council Foundation

Back to main site

Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

ASCF News

Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Taiwan Claims Chinese Military Helicopter Flew Into Air Defense Zone

Monday, May 16, 2022

Categories: ASCF News National Preparedness

Comments: 0

Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/taiwan-claims-chinese-military-helicopter-flew-into-air-defense-zone_4468939.html

Two armed F-16V fighter jets fly over an air force base in Chiayi, southern Taiwan, on Jan. 5, 2022. (Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said May 15 that a Chinese military helicopter was spotted entering its air defense identification zone following a spike in the Chinese military’s activity this month.

The ministry said in a statement that a Chinese Z-9 anti-submarine warfare helicopter flew into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone on May 15.

Taiwan responded by issuing radio warnings and deploying air defense missile systems to track the Chinese helicopter. The self-ruled island has reported almost daily Chinese air force incursions recently.

According to local reports, China deployed 42 military aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone in the first two weeks of May, signaling a rise in Chinese military incursions.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) formally maintains that Taiwan is a breakaway province of China, and CCP leader Xi Jinping has vowed to unite it with the mainland. Taiwan has been self-governed since 1949, however, and has never been controlled by the CCP.

On May 10, three Chinese military helicopters were sighted breaching Taiwan’s airspace territory, one of which crossed the so-called “median line,” an unofficial boundary that runs through the middle of the Taiwan Strait.

Taiwanese defense officials wrote on Twitter that one Chinese WZ-10 attack helicopter crossed the median line while two KA-28 anti-submarine warfare helicopters were spotted roughly halfway between the island’s southwestern coast and the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands.

The Taiwanese military then dispatched aircraft, issued radio warnings, and deployed air defense missile systems.

The U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet also deployed the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal for a “routine” Taiwan Strait transit through international waters on the same day, which it said was “in accordance with international law.”

“Port Royal’s transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the United States’ commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. The United States military flies, sails, and operates anywhere international law allows,” the U.S. Navy said in a statement.

In response to the U.S. drill, the Chinese military’s Eastern Theatre Command accused Washington of staging “dramas” and provoking “trouble, sending wrong signals to Taiwan independence forces, and deliberately intensifying tensions across the Taiwan Strait.”

“Theatre troops maintain high alert at all times, resolutely counteract all threats and provocations, and resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the Chinese military said, adding that the U.S. ship had been warned.

Following that, Taiwan’s defense ministry said the U.S. ship sailed north through the strait and that the situation in the waterway was “as normal.”

Comments RSS feed for comments on this page

There are no comments yet. Be the first to add a comment by using the form below.