Soon after China began its military drills in the skies and seas around
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – A group of House lawmakers is in Taiwan this week meeting with its newly elected officials, despite warnings from China to stay out of the region and as Beijing ramps up its military drills around the island. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is leading the multi-day diplomatic trip, which
WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet his Chinese counterpart, the Pentagon announced on Friday (May 24), after China carried out war games around Taiwan in a sign to the US-backed democracy's n
President Biden has enabled Beijing and now is facing another “Putin goes to Ukraine” moment.
BEIJING, (IANS/DPA) – China placed three defense companies in the US on its list of “unreliable companies” for selling weapons to Taiwan, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced on May 20. The three companies added to China’s list of “unreliable companies” are Boeing Defense, Space &: […]
China has launched an anti-dumping probe into imports of a widely used
China has sanctioned 12 defense-related U.S. companies and 10 executives over arms sales to Taiwan and to retaliate for earlier American sanctions on Chinese companies tied to Russia
The United States and several of its allies, including Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany and Japan, issued a joint statement on Friday calling on Taiwan to be allowed to take part in a key meeting of the World Health Organization next week. Taiwan is excluded from most international organizations because of objections by China, which considers the democratically governed island its territory. Taiwan attended the WHO's World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer from 2009 to 2016 under the...
Taiwan has become “one of the most dangerous flashpoints” in the region as US-China rivalry intensifies, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong said on Friday.“Taiwan is one of the most sensitive issues in US-China relations,” Gan said at the Nikkei Forum in Tokyo. “Any clash in the Taiwan Strait will have dire consequences not just for the parties involved, but the entire world.”China conducts war games near Taiwan to test ability to seize power | 10 updatesGan’s remarks come as China...
Beijing’s top diplomat Monday said that Taiwan’s internal politics did not change the “fact” it was part of China, calling efforts towards the island’s independence “dangerous” after it swore in new President Lai Ching-te. China considers Taiwan part of its territory and has long threatened to use force to bring the island under its control. […]
This blog is closed. See all of our Taiwan coverage. The Guardian’s Helen Davidson and Chi Hui Lin are at the inauguration in Taipei. They have this report:It is a sea of bucket hats outside the Presidential Office. Continue reading
New Taiwan President Lai Ching-te in inauguration speech urges China to