Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence (MND) on Thursday reported heightened Chinese military activity near its territory."6 PLA aircraft and 5 PLAN vessels operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.
Washington should not cross Beijing's "red lines" to ensure the stable development of ties, Chinese ambassador Xie Feng has said, while calling the Taiwan issue the biggest potential threat to the relationship.
China is intensively developing a fleet of special barges that can be used for an assault on Taiwan. New units observed at the Guangzhou shipyard feature long road bridges, suggesting their potential use in landing operations.
Trump term mean for Taiwan, especially with a Republican-controlled Congress? After Trump was elected in 2016, he initially tried to use Taiwan to gain leverage over Beijing. After taking a congratulatory call from then-Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen,
Taipei's top China affairs official warned that Taiwan's government "will not tolerate" Beijing's active engagement solely with opposition politicians while it refuses dialogue with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te's democratically elected administration,
China and Russia look like the prime suspects for severed cables in the Baltic and Taiwan Strait, Beijing and the war in Ukraine, the tech race takes off, and much more.
Tensions rise as Beijing stokes Okinawa independence movement with propaganda and diplomatic outreach for potential Taiwan incursion
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) governs mainland China, whereas the Republic of China (ROC) administers Taiwan and several smaller islands. “On the contrary, the Republic of China may be the motherland of the people of the People’s Republic of China who are over 75 years old,” Mr Lai said.
A certain detail is conspicuously absent from State Department’s account of a phone call reportedly made at the top American envoy’s request.
Hours after Donald Trump’s chilly inauguration in Washington, Taiwan’s parliament voted to freeze billions of dollars in defense spending, in a move some worry could frustrate the famously transactional president,
China's tourism ministry said on Friday that it has begun preparations to resume group tours to Taiwan from Shanghai and Fujian province in the near future, with Taipei saying it welcomed the move. China and Taiwan have argued since the end of COVID-19 about when and how tourists from China could resume visiting the island,