Taiwan reports first Chinese 'combat patrol' of the New Year
Taiwan's defence ministry said on Thursday that Chinese warplanes and warships had carried out the first "combat patrol" ...
Taiwan rebutts China's New Year propaganda video as psychological warfare
Video, which featured Chinese warships, fighter jets, and dramatic imagery, sought to assert China's dominance over Taiwan ...
Xi says China’s annexation of Taiwan can’t be stopped
Chinese President Xi Jinping in a New Year's address declared Taiwan and China to be one people and said no nation can stop ...
Taiwan president vows to boost the island’s defense budget as China threats rise
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has pledged to strengthen the island’s defenses in the face of escalating Chinese threats.
Taiwan president wants exchanges with China, sees lack of goodwill
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday that he welcomed equal, dignified, healthy and orderly exchanges with China, ...
Breaking Defense18h
For the Navy, all eyes will be on the China-Taiwan question: 2025 preview
This article is one of many in a series in which Breaking Defense reporters look back on the most significant (and ...
Nikkei Asia4h
Trump 'right' on Taiwan military spending, ruling DPP heavyweight says
"Pressure from Trump is only part of the story," Lee Wen-chung, a heavyweight in the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, told Nikkei Asia in his first foreign media interview since his think tank ...
Some cheer and toast to welcome the New Year. In Taiwan, people cry their eyes out
Hundreds showed up at the park to cry, laugh, drink, sing, dance, chat and blow off steam, transforming the flashmob-style ...
Is the US testing China's 'red lines' on Taiwan?
President Joe Biden is trying to strengthen Taiwan's defenses before he leaves the White House. The United States, said China ...
Taiwan media: Court orders ex-head of 3rd largest party detained again
Taiwan's media say a court has ruled that former leader Ko Wen-je of Taiwan's third largest party be detained again. The former chairman of the Taiwan People's Party was on bail after being indicted ...