The Formosa Republican Association (FRA) held its “2025 Civil Defense Joint Exercise” from April 26th to 27th, bringing together civil disaster response organizations from across Taiwan. With over a hundred participants, the event was Taiwan’s largest civil defense exercise to-date, and demonstrated the organizational strength and proactiveness of Taiwanese society in self-defense efforts.

The exercise adopted a "scriptless” approach and simulated sudden conflict and disinformation scenarios to test civil defense groups’ emergency response, leadership, casualty management, and communcation capabilities. During the exercise, each team followed a clear system of command to act swiftly, conducting first-aid, maintaining order, relocating civilians, and managing resources. These processes highlighted the coordination and reponse abilities of civil organizations in high-pressure situations, and established a foundation for expanded civil disaster reponse cooperation in the future.

The exercise also drew observers and experts from Japan, the Netherlands, Canada, Ukraine, and other friendly nations, showcasing avid international support for Taiwan in the global network for democratic defense.

The FRA will continue advocating this exercise as an annual drill and through it, strengthen public awareness and societal resilience to create a more robust and responsive national civil defense system for Taiwan.

Former US Secretary of State Pompeo was invited by the Vision Foundation to visit Taiwan on March 2, and went to the Presidential Palace to meet with President Tsai Ing-wen on March 3. The President awarded him the "Special Ribbon Star Medal" in recognition of his outstanding contribution in improving Taiwan-US relationship.

In order to show the friendship between Taiwan and the United States, and to express the Taiwanese people's gratitude for Pompeo's support for Taiwan during his tenure, on the evening of the 2nd, FRA went to CKS airport with various Taiwan groups to express our welcome.

FRA held "2022 Youth National Security Forum" on January 15, 2022.

The four major sections are "Invisible Gunpowder, Politics, Heart and Information Warfare", "The PLA's Military Deduction for Attacking Taiwan", "How the Civilians Act in the Face of Infiltration and Internal Coping", and "An Appointment with the Generals: How to Defend Taiwan".

The forum analyzed various soft and hard measures taken by the People's Liberation Army to attack Taiwan, and appeal to people of Taiwan: "don't depend on NOT Coming of the enemy".

Lin, chairman of the FRA, also conveyed to the government military reform measures such as restoring the recruitment system and the implementation of military courts should be resumed, thus demonstrating the determination of defending Taiwan.

All the guests at the meeting believed that in order to maintain national security, adequate military education should be given to the people, and pointed out that national security comes from daily training, not based on pleasing the enemy.