Taiwan
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Taiwan authorities sent out an island-wide alert on Tuesday (Jan 9), saying a Chinese satellite had flown over south Taiwan airspace, around the same time Chinese state media confirmed the launch of a science satellite. The short message from Taiwan’s defence ministry was sent after 3pm local time to mobile phone users in Taiwan. The “presidential…
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The Biden administration hopes that Taiwan’s voters can freely choose their next leader when the island votes next week in a general election, says John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, in an interview with VOA’s White House Correspondent Paris Huang on Thursday. Kirby also reiterated that President Joe Biden and his administration…
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President Xi Jinping vowed on Tuesday to resolutely prevent anyone from “splitting Taiwan from China in any way”, the official Xinhua news agency reported, a little more than two weeks before Taiwan elects a new leader. China views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, despite the strong objections of the government in Taipei, and has ramped up…
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The United States and Taiwan are exploring ways to expand Taiwan’s participation in the United Nations system and other international forums, as well as addressing a range of global challenges, including public health, aviation safety and climate change. The most recent routine consultation between the U.S. and Taiwan took place Wednesday, days after the Chinese…
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The US and Taiwan are exploring ways to expand Taiwan’s participation in the UN and other international forums, as well as addressing a range of global challenges, including public health, aviation safety and climate change, Voice of America (VOA) reported. VOA is a US state-owned news network and international radio broadcaster. The US-Taiwan routine consultation…
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Greece has warned its public officials not to attend events or ceremonies hosted by Taiwan to avoid possible diplomatic problems with its key trading partner, China, a report by the Japan-based Nikkei Asia has said. While the European Union (EU) does not have formal relations with Taiwan or recognize Taipei’s claim to independence from Beijing,…
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Opposition parties have agreed to join forces in Taipei, raising chances of a change in power on the island Taiwan’s leading opposition parties have agreed to combine forces with a joint ticket in January’s presidential election, consolidating their political support and boosting their chances of forming a more China-friendly government in Taipei. The Kuomintang (KMT)…
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On Sunday, Taiwan’s military detected a buildup of Chinese forces marshaling along China’s Fujian Province, a coastal region bordering the Taiwan Strait, Focus Taiwan reported early Sunday morning. These Chinese “military exercises,” as it’s being reported, are being “conducted at Fujian’s Dacheng Bay” and feature an “undisclosed numbers of People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) warplanes, warships, and ground…
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The US is planning to repurchase decommissioned HAWK air defence missiles it sold to Taiwan and redirect them to Ukraine as part of a military aid package, according to the China Times. Citing unnamed sources, the paper claims Washington and Taipei agreed on the repurchase after consultations with senior security officials as early as last…
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China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday blasted the announcement of four new military bases by the Philippines for the United States, urging regional countries not to act as Washington’s pawns so as to avoid harming themselves. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning made the remarks at a daily news conference after the Philippines identified the locations of…
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Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of the NATO alliance, lashed out on Wednesday against China, accusing the country of spreading the Kremlin’s wartime narrative, shoring up Russia’s heavily-sanctioned economy and attempting to bend the rules-based world order. “China refuses to condemn Russia’s aggression, echoes Russia’s propaganda and props up Russia’s economy,” Stoltenberg said at the end of…
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Any attempt by China to forcefully change the status quo with Taiwan would hit “quite literally every country on earth,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned in an interview with Euronews in which he also made clear his country does not seek a direct confrontation with Beijing. China considers Taiwan a breakaway province and has…
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The former senior intelligence officer argued that such actions would be impossible to miss To prepare for a military operation against Taiwan, the Chinese government would have to take certain steps that simply cannot be kept secret from the West – and there is currently no sign of them, former CIA official John Culver argued…
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A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said this week that due to their involvement in Washington’s latest arms sales to Taiwan, Beijing will impose sanctions on the chief executives of arms manufacturers Boeing Defense and Raytheon. The sanctions on Boeing CEO Ted Colbert and Raytheon head Gregory Hayes are in response to the sale of military…
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Why do China and Taiwan have poor relations? China sees the self-ruled island as a part of its territory and insists it should be unified with the mainland, by force if necessary How is Taiwan governed? The island has its own constitution, democratically elected leaders, and about 300,000 active troops in its armed forces Who recognises Taiwan? Only…
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Taiwan has fired warning shots at three unidentified drones that flew near its outlying islands. It is not clear who was flying the drones, but all three were seen flying back towards the Chinese mainland, said Taiwan’s defence ministry. It comes as Taipei has over the past weeks complained of Chinese drones flying close to…
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