Category: Taiwan

By Joy Chiang with Mary Yang in Beijing China on Tuesday sent its army, navy, air, and rocket forces to surround Taiwan for drills Beijing said were aimed at practicing a blockade of the self-ruled island.

China has deployed its Shandong aircraft carrier group and other vessels around Taiwan, the island's defense ministry said Tuesday after Beijing announced military exercises to surround the self-ruled island. Taiwan has dispatched its own aircraft and ships, and deployed land-based missile ...

By Moustafa Ahmad As Somaliland and Taiwan deepen ties, Mogadishu has concurrently strengthened its relationship with Beijing as both recognized and unrecognized states vie for influence in the Horn of Africa. Just one day after ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio clashed with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi over Taiwan on Friday, with Donald Trump's top diplomat denouncing Beijing's "coercive" moves. Rubio, a longtime China hawk, spoke with Wang for the first time by telephone at ...

By Leonardo Bruni and Ahmet Faruk Işık In recent years, the Chinese Ambassador to Cyprus has repeatedly suggested that China’s Global Security Initiative could be applied to help resolve the long-standing “Cyprus Problem.” This frozen conflict is rooted in the interethnic ...

By Akio Wang Taiwan President Lai Ching-te arrived in the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu on Wednesday as part of a trip aimed at shoring up international support for Taiwan as China seeks to poach its few remaining allies.

By Akio WANG Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te arrived in the Marshall Islands on Tuesday after visiting the United States at the first stop of a Pacific tour that angered Chinese leaders. The Marshall Islands is ...

By Akio Wang Taiwan President Lai Ching-te arrived Saturday in the United States for the start of a week-long tour in the Pacific that he said would usher in a new era of democracy, but that has sparked fury in Beijing. ...

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te will visit three Pacific island nation allies from the end of this month in his first overseas trip since taking office, the presidential office said Friday. Presidential spokeswoman Karen Kuo said Lai will visit the Marshall Islands, ...

Pacific nation Palau begins voting Tuesday in a presidential election dominated by cost of living worries, China meddling claims, and the expanding military footprint of the United States. The Melanesian microstate of some 20,000 people is one of Taiwan's few remaining diplomatic friends ...

Kiribati's pro-China acting president Taneti Maamau sought a third term in power Friday, as voters chose between three candidates to lead the low-lying Pacific island. Maamau, 64, retained his seat by a landslide in August parliamentary elections that were dominated by ...

By Joy Chiang and Amber Wang A Chinese aircraft carrier group sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, Taiwan's defense minister said, a day after Beijing held a live-fire exercise near the self-ruled island. China ...