Taiwan became the last bastion of the autocratic Republic of China’s government and military after Chairman Mao Zedong’s Communist revolutionary forces seized control of the mainland in 1949.

China’s military launched a record number of warplane incursions – over 3,000 – into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) in 2024 as part of its “grey-zone” warfare ...

TAIPEI -- Taiwan's remaining undersea cable link to the Matsu Islands near China was completely disconnected early Wednesday, the government said, adding to a string of such issues and raising ...

Taiwan, a former province of China and an international force in semiconductor manufacturing, could very well be a powder keg for global strife if China attacks the island nation, asserting its ...

The U.S. should rethink Chinese perceptions of geopolitical conflict because China brings a fundamentally ... to hot-button issues such as the Taiwan conflict. Ma said that understanding these ...

At least 27 people were injured when a magnitude 6.4 earthquake – the equivalent of two atomic bombs – struck the county of Chiayi in southwestern Taiwan soon after midnight on Tuesday.

On Taiwan, Ushakov said Russia had "confirmed its unwavering position of support for the one-China principle." China regards democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and Xi said in a ...

China’s manufacturing boom has fueled decades of export-oriented economic growth, undercutting foreign competitors and contributing to a growing appetite for tariffs in the United States and Europe.

of helping China by undermining President Lai Ching-te’s minority government. Blocking parts of the defence budget “shows the world that Taiwan’s determination to defend itself has been ...

Han said Beijing was ready to work with Washington to “implement the important consensus reached between President Xi Jinping and president-elect Trump”, said China’s official news agency ...

Xiao’s piece was presented without challenge or caveat. His “Seven truths on why Taiwan always will be China’s” presented a “greatest hits” of the litany of PRC falsehoods. This includes: Taiwan’s ...

Conceiving of China as an imperial power helps to illuminate why Xi Jinping has set his sights on Taiwan. The Taiwanese people are, effectively, a minority population within what the PRC considers to ...