A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple territorial disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons. China flooded the Taiwan S …
China Raises Taiwan Conflict Risk
China is ratcheting up its threat of military confrontation on the Taiwan Strait as Beijing seeks to deter Taipei from deeper ties with the U.S. Bloomberg’s Lucille Liu reports on “Bloomberg Markets: …
Reports: Taiwan Is Loading Up On Super-Accurate Missiles For Its F-16s
The air-launched SLAM-ER missiles and ground-launched Harpoon missiles arguably are the most important—and, to China, provocative— …
Vietnam to resume some international flights, set up quarantine process
The aviation authorities of China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan (China) have asked Vietnam to clarify the immigration process, isolation and medical requirements for international flights.
Explainer: Why Is Taiwan-China Tension Rising and What Are the Risks?
China claims democratically-run Taiwan as its own territory, to be taken by force if needed, a threat the island has lived with since 1949, when defeated Kuomintang, or Nationalist, forces fled there …
What the New Tech Cold War Means for Taiwan
American tech war is an extension of realist politics and is part of the Republican re-election campaign to portrait its leader as the Teflon president …
In Taiwan’s lush landscape, Jessica J. Lee found a deeper understanding of her family’s turbulent history
In her memoir Two Trees Make a Forest, Canadian writer and environmental historian Jessica J. Lee returns to her mother’s homeland of Taiwan to understand the landscape that shaped her family. The …
China sends warplanes as Taiwan honors ex-leader
China sent more warplanes toward Taiwan for the second day Saturday as the island’s leader, senior government officials and a high-level U.S. envoy paid tribute to the man who led Taiwan’s transition …
Taiwan President Says Has No Plans to Talk to Japan’s New PM
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday that there was no plan for her talk by telephone with new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, after a Japanese envoy had told Tsai …
Taiwan President Says Drills Show China Is Threat to Whole Region
The last two days of Chinese aircraft approaching Taiwan demonstrate that Beijing is a threat to the entire region and have shown Taiwanese even more clearly the true nature of China’s government, …