RED FLAGS: Officials at the US Department of Defense said that military-to-military exchanges between Taiwan and China could jeopardize US arms sales to Taiwan
By William Lowther
Pentagon officials are worried that increasingly warm relations across the Taiwan Strait could give China new opportunities to spy on Taiwan’s US-made weapons systems.

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DOWNTIME: Altogether, four airports experienced failures in their immigration systems, raising calls from all sides for investigations and better computers
By Jenny W. Hsu
The Immigration computer system at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport was finally fixed at 5:10pm yesterday after more than 30 hours of system malfunctions, the National Immigration Agency (NIA) said, one day earlier than it had previously estimated.

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Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships went blazing into towns across the Gaza Strip yesterday, attacking Hamas targets and searching for its leaders as the war death toll passed 580.

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By Shih Hsiu-chuan
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus’ motion yesterday to relieve Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Diane Lee (李慶安) of her legislative status over her alleged US citizenship was blocked by the KMT caucus, giving Lee until Jan. 31 to show documents and prove that she no longer has US citizenship.

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