China has designated Oct. 25 as the Commemoration Day of Taiwan’s Restoration, a new national observance intended to reinforce Beijing’s sovereignty claim over the self-ruled island. The measure was approved Friday in Beijing during a session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress,

By John Geddie, Tim Kelly and Mariko Katsumura TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sparked a diplomatic spat with China over remarks last week that a hypothetical Chinese attack on democratically-ruled Taiwan could trigger a military response from Tokyo.

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BEIJING (Reuters) -Taiwan President Lai Ching-te is "prostituting" himself to foreigners to try and win their favour but his schemes are doomed to fail, China's government said on Wednesday after he

Lt. Gen. Sun Li-fang details Taiwan's defense plans against Chinese gray-zone operations and potential naval blockade threats from the PLA.

To commemorate the historic moment eighty years ago when Taiwan was restored to the motherland after being freed from Japanese colonial rule,

Both sides of the Taiwan Strait are girding for would be the most difficult seaborne invasion since World War II.

In response to recent inquiries from local media, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) asserted that neither the Cairo Declaration or the Potsdam Proclamation, nor the San Francisco Peace Treaty, could "determine Taiwan's final political status". This comment was subsequently endorsed as "accurate" by the US State Department.

Taiwan does not want China's "one country, two systems" and must uphold its freedom and democracy, and resolve to defend itself, President William Lai (賴清德) said today, rejecting Beijing's latest push to get Taiwan to agree to unification.

Taiwan Vice-President Hsiao Bi-khim spoke at the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China's annual summit held in the European Parliament in Brussels, a visit which Beijing says "gravely violates the one-China principle".

While leadership says new Loyalty Hall name highlights army ethos, opposition accuses DPP of politicising military and rewriting history.