TAIPEI ¨C In the summer of 2022, just months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Taiwan¡¯s president gathered senior officials from her ruling party in downtown Taipei. On the agenda: How was Ukraine, in its war with Russia, successfully offsetting the advantages of a much more powerful foe?
President Tsai Ing-wen was given an internal 77-page briefing report via PowerPoint. It had a clear answer: drones.
¡°Since the war began, Ukraine, which was previously considered as lacking air supremacy, cleverly used drones to create its own partial air supremacy,¡± the presentation stated.

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