Kuala Lampur, Nov. 26 -- When Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae declared in the Diet that "Taiwan's survival is directly connected to Japan's own security," she triggered more than a diplomatic ripple. She established a new structural reality - one in which Beijing is compelled to respond with both political clarity and technological urgency.

What followed was not merely rhetoric from China, but a comprehensive engineering simulation to determine whether Starlink, one of Taiwan's most critical asymmetric assets, can be neutralised during a conflict.

This is the law of unintended consequences in motion. A political signal in Tokyo has produced a military-technical counteraction in Beijing, revealing the escalating layers of insecurity that n...