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One of the most dangerous places in the world right now is the Taiwan Strait. (bing.com)
The US and China have accused each other of stirring up tensions in the Taiwan Strait and weaponizing trade relations in order to coerce others. (rt.com)
The Chinese military has conducted a long-range live fire exercise in the Taiwan Strait and used precision weapons to strike "specific areas" in the eastern part of the waterway, it said on Thursday. (rt.com)
Beijing, which warned the US against going through with the trip by the third-ranking US official, earlier announced a series of military exercises in six areas surrounding the island, including the Taiwan Strait, a key maritime traffic route. (rt.com)
China has accused the United States of 'provocation' after warships from the two countries almost collided in the Taiwan Strait. (euronews.com)
Speaking to Euronews, Remus Li-Kuo Chen predicted 'devastating and catastrophic repercussions' if the status quo in the Taiwan Strait is altered. (euronews.com)
The president then said U.S. "policy towards Taiwan has not changed at all," stressing his government's commitment to "the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, and ensuring that there's no unilateral change to the status quo. (cbsnews.com)
It deploys a fleet in the Taiwan Strait between the two to protect its ally from possible attack from the mainland. (aljazeera.com)
We will work towards maintaining the status quo for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in order to bring the greatest benefits and well-being to the Taiwanese people," Tsai said. (aljazeera.com)
Have we contemplated facing some type of Sino-Russian or Sino-Russian-North Korean-Pakistani coalition if, for example, hostilities were to break out on the Korean Peninsula, in the Taiwan Strait, or in the Sea of Japan," he asked. (courthousenews.com)
NANJING, China - People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are ethnically Chinese and share the same ancestor, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said on Tuesday at the start of a historic visit to China that Taiwan's ruling party has criticized. (inquirer.net)
People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese people, and are both descendants of the Yan and Yellow Emperors," Ma said, in comments provided by his office. (inquirer.net)
The Halifax-class frigate HMCS Montreal sails alongside the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon during a transit through the Taiwan Strait. (arabnews.com)
TAIPEI: A US and a Canadian warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, the US Navy said, in a rare joint mission in the sensitive waterway at a time of heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington over Chinese-claimed Taiwan. (arabnews.com)
Chung-Hoon and Montreal's bilateral transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the commitment of the United States and our allies and partners to a free and open Indo-Pacific," it said in a statement. (arabnews.com)
Chinese warplanes had buzzed the line dividing the Taiwan Strait ahead of Ms Pelosi's arrival. (abc.net.au)
The government of Taiwan , formally the Republic of China, was established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek, after his Nationalist forces lost control of the mainland to Mao Zedong's Communists and fled to the island, which lies some 180km (112 miles) across the Taiwan Strait off China's southeast coast. (aljazeera.com)
China on Monday dismissed the existence of a 'median line' in the volatile Taiwan Strait after Taiwan's defence ministry said it detected a record 103 Chinese warplanes flying around the self-ruled island in a 24-hour period. (rediff.com)
There is no so-called 'median line' in the Taiwan Strait," Mao asserted when a reporter sought her response to Taiwan's defence ministry's statement that 40 of the 103 Chinese People's Liberation Army warplanes crossed the 'median line' on the Taiwan Strait in a 24-hour span between Sunday and Monday. (rediff.com)
According to a flight map provided by Taiwan's defence ministry, 40 of the 103 Chinese warplanes crossed the 'median line' on the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan's self-declared air defence identification zone (ADIZ). (rediff.com)
The number of incursions marked a new high in recent times, posing a 'serious challenge' to security in the Taiwan Strait and wider region, the ministry said. (rediff.com)
China's only aircraft carrier has entered the Taiwan Strait in a highly symbolic show of strength, but Taiwan insisted Wednesday there was no need for panic even as tensions boil over the island's diplomatic status. (emirates247.com)
On Friday, a US Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane flew over the Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing over Taiwan and military activity in the region. (antiwar.com)
A US Navy P-8A Poseidon transited the Taiwan Strait in international airspace on June 24. (antiwar.com)
The United States will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows including within the Taiwan Strait," US Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement. (antiwar.com)
The flight came after China appeared to challenge the legality of US military activity in the Taiwan Strait by saying the channel is not "international waters," citing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). (antiwar.com)
The US sends warships through the Taiwan Strait about once a month and releases statements referring to the waterway as "international waters. (antiwar.com)
It is a false claim when certain countries call the Taiwan Strait 'international waters' in order to find a pretext for manipulating issues related to Taiwan and threatening China's sovereignty and security," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on June 13. (antiwar.com)
The US responded to Wenbin's comments by saying it will "continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows, and that includes transiting through the Taiwan Strait. (antiwar.com)
They go around the world looking for ways to start wars such as by declaring "Taiwan strait" international water. (antiwar.com)
Like the island encirclement patrol, cross-theater drills have become routine, taking place in the Taiwan Strait and western Pacific, which is part of combat-readiness training to prepare for the outbreak of a Taiwan contingency," said Zhou Chenming, a researcher from the Beijing-based Yuan Wang military think tank. (antiwar.com)
MANILA, Philippines - Amid tensions in the Taiwan Strait, the Department of National Defense (DND) on Wednesday warned of a possible humanitarian crisis should armed clashes erupt in the area. (inquirer.net)
Tension in the Taiwan Strait was heightened by the recent visit by United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, a self-governing island being claimed by China as part of its territory. (inquirer.net)
While DND officer-in-charge Jose Faustino Jr. hoped that tensions would de-escalate , he laid out the possible impacts on the Philippines should armed clashes take place in the Taiwan Strait. (inquirer.net)
Next is we know very well that 'yung area na 'yun, 'yung Taiwan Strait, ay daanan talaga ito. (inquirer.net)
Next, we know very well that that area, the Taiwan Strait, is a sea lane. (inquirer.net)

IMAGE: F-16 aircrafts fly during a drill rehearsal in New Taipei City, Taiwan on July 20, 2023. (rediff.com)

Police in China have shut down a Taiwan-based Web site that featured Chinese women in erotic footage and have arrested 33 people involved in the operation, China's state media reported on Wednesday. (taipeitimes.com)
Taipei Times" urged the United States and Taiwan not to underestimate China's real intentions behind its plans for aircraft carriers. (scoop.co.nz)
Reflecting China's increasingly belligerent rhetoric and actions against Taiwan, the US government may accelerate the delivery of Taipei's new Lockheed Martin F-16V fighters. (flightglobal.com)
China's President Xi Jinping warned on Wednesday that the unification of China and Taiwan was "inevitable", with the use of military force remaining an option. (aljazeera.com)
China's hostility towards Taiwan has risen since the election as president of Tsai Ing-wen from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 2016. (cbc.ca)
Mr Biden said the US-South Korean alliance was built on opposition to changing borders by force - an apparent reference to Russia's war in Ukraine and China's claims over Taiwan. (express.co.uk)
China's leaders also summoned the US ambassador in Beijing, and announced the suspension of several agricultural imports from Taiwan. (abc.net.au)
Earlier on Wednesday, China's customs department announced a suspension of imports of citrus fruits, chilled white striped hairtail and frozen horse mackerel from Taiwan, while its commerce ministry suspended export of natural sand to Taiwan. (abc.net.au)
Shortly after Ms Pelosi's arrival, China's military announced joint air and sea drills near Taiwan and test launches of conventional missiles in the sea east of Taiwan, with Chinese state news agency Xinhua describing live-fire drills and other exercises around Taiwan from Thursday to Sunday. (abc.net.au)
As the meeting took place, China's Foreign Ministry summoned the US ambassador to Beijing, Nicholas Burns, to protest against Ms Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. (abc.net.au)
Let me say that Taiwan is part of China's territory. (rediff.com)
The ruling Communist Party of China has long vowed that the island must be unified with the Chinese mainland, by force if necessary, while Taiwan strongly rejects China's territorial claims over it. (rediff.com)
In disregard of China's firm opposition, the US government deliberately supplies weapons to China's Taiwan region, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao said on Friday. (rediff.com)
We call on the United States to earnestly abide by the one-China principle and the stipulations of the three China-U.S. joint communiques, stop arms sales to Taiwan, stop military collusion with Taiwan, and stop arming Taiwan, otherwise it will be met with China's resolute response," she warned. (rediff.com)
China's propaganda mouthpiece the Global Times has warned Canberra's "provocative actions" over Taiwan could cause "irreparable damage" to China-Australia relations. (skynews.com.au)
The Global Times has said there would be no "diplomatic solution" if Australia were to challenge China's sovereignty over Taiwan. (skynews.com.au)
The best guess anyone has about China's ultimate intentions for Taiwan comes from the CIA. (cbsnews.com)
China's Taiwan Affairs Office said Wednesday that the purpose of recent large-scale Chinese military drills around Taiwan is to "combat the arrogance" of Taiwan "separatists," referring to recent actions by Taipei to boost ties with the US and other Western countries. (antiwar.com)

In March 2018, the US adopts a law reinforcing ties with Taiwan, again infuriating China. (aljazeera.com)
In September 2018, the US State Department approves the sale to Taiwan of spare parts for F-16 fighter jets and other military aircraft worth up to $330m, drawing a warning from China that the move jeopardised cooperation between Beijing and Washington. (aljazeera.com)
openSUSE.Asia Committee calls for proposals of talks for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2018 held at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology on August 11 and 12. (opensuse.org)
In the odd semester of 2018/2019 this time the International Program of Accounting (IPAcc) has sent 4 students in the transfer credit program at Asia University, Taiwan. (umy.ac.id)

Beijing will "absolutely not" renounce the right to use force in reunifying with Taiwan, the country's defense minister, Li Shangfu, said on Thursday, as cited by the South China Morning Post. (rt.com)
He said the officials discussed Taiwan, which Beijing considers part of its sovereign territory. (rt.com)
Beijing considers Taiwan to be part of its territory and has declared peaceful reintegration as its strategic goal. (rt.com)
Beijing was quick to respond, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin warning: "No one should underestimate the firm resolve, staunch will and strong ability of the Chinese people in defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity," according to French news agency AFP. (cbsnews.com)
Under the "One China" policy the U.S. recognizes Beijing as the government of all of China and doesn't have engage in official diplomatic relations with Taiwan. (cbsnews.com)
In March 2005, Beijing adopts a law which makes secession by Taiwan illegal at the risk of military action. (aljazeera.com)
In 2008, Taiwan and China resume high-level talks after the KMT's Ma Ying-jeou is elected president on a Beijing-friendly platform. (aljazeera.com)
In 2017, Trump's administration approves $1.4bn worth of arms sales to Taiwan, prompting anger from Beijing. (aljazeera.com)
President Jimmy Carter signed the Taiwan Relations Act into law in 1980 after the U.S. established diplomatic ties with Beijing, and after he unilaterally annulled a defense treaty that had helped secure Taiwan from a Chinese invasion after the civil war. (courthousenews.com)
He is visiting amid heightened tension as Beijing uses political and military means to try and pressure democratically governed Taiwan into accepting Chinese sovereignty. (inquirer.net)
Beijing considers democratic Taiwan to be a wayward province and integral part of 'one China', ineligible for state-to-state relations, and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. (cbc.ca)
A native to the island, he once described Taiwan -China ties as a "special state-to-state relationship", infuriating Beijing. (aljazeera.com)
The latest military action from Beijing came days after China decided to impose sanctions on two US defence companies -- Lockheed Martin Corporation and Northrop Grumman - for their involvement in arms sales to Taiwan. (rediff.com)
Tsai is this week visiting Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador -- among the dwindling number of states that have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan instead of with Beijing. (emirates247.com)
The US has stepped up its support for Taiwan in recent years, angering Beijing. (antiwar.com)
Referring again to the military drills, Zhou said they would continue as long as Taiwan continues what Beijing views as provocations. (antiwar.com)

President Biden speaking during a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida after their meeting at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on May 23, 2022. (cbsnews.com)
Tokyo Electron (TEL) is proud of to be a Platinum Sponsor of SEMICON Taiwan 2022, the leading exhibition and conference. (tel.com)
China has typically held large-scale drills around Taiwan in response to specific events, such as then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan in August 2022, which sparked the largest-ever Chinese live-fire exercises in the area. (antiwar.com)

We delineate and analyze the critical policy decisions and cross-departmental collaborations in the Taiwan government and Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) during the first 50 days of the COVID-19 epidemic. (cdc.gov)

Despite lucrative trade ties and shared democratic values, the EU does not have official diplomatic relations with Taiwan. (euronews.com)
The United States hasn't had official diplomatic relations with Taiwan since. (courthousenews.com)
Like other EU institutions, the European Parliament does not maintain official diplomatic relations with Taiwan and is technically adherent to the one-China policy. (thediplomat.com)

This past August, when then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi became the most senior U.S. political figure to visit Taiwan in 25 years, China called it a "blatant provocation. (cbsnews.com)
The recent gross overreaction of Xi Jinping, China s autocratic communist dictator, to Nancy Pelosi s mere visit to Taiwan has raised fears and hackles in the U.S. foreign policy establishment with calls to overtly pledge to go to the aid of Taiwan if China attacks the island. (independent.org)

The 18 November commissioning of the upgraded jets took place at Taiwan's Chiayi air base, according to Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA). (flightglobal.com)
The Hualien district court allowed the truck owner to post bail of 500,000 new Taiwan dollars (US$17,516) but he must stay in the county and avoid contact with any witnesses, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported. (kstp.com)

Under the ownership of I-Mei Foods, which is strongly associated with the Taiwanese identity, Taiwan News changed its editorial stance from being pro-KMT to being in favor of the Pan-Green coalition and Taiwan independence. (wikipedia.org)
We will never tolerate any attempt by the Democratic Progressive Party authorities to seek foreign support for Taiwanese independence, nor will we tolerate any attempt by external forces to use Taiwan to contain China. (rt.com)
On Thursday, he traveled to New York to meet with Taiwanese expatriate groups before departing for Taiwan in the evening. (taipeitimes.com)
Ma, in office from 2008-2016, is the first former or current Taiwanese president to visit China since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of a civil war with the Communists. (inquirer.net)
The bill says it should be U.S. policy to allow officials at all levels to travel to Taiwan to meet their Taiwanese counterparts, permit high-level Taiwanese officials to enter the United States 'under respectful conditions' and meet with U.S. officials, and encourage Taiwanese economic and cultural representatives to conduct business in the United States. (cbc.ca)
These are in-depth pre- and post-show reports on major international trade fairs, held in Taiwan and other countries with significant participation by Taiwanese manufacturers and exporters. (cens.com)

Rescue workers remove a part of the derailed train near Taroko Gorge in Hualien, Taiwan on Saturday, April 3, 2021. (kstp.com)

1858 According to former editor Anthony Lawrance, Taiwan News opposes autocracies and the People's Republic of China. (wikipedia.org)
1858 In the late 1990s, Taiwan News rejected Chinese unification as advocated by the KMT and associations of Taiwan with the People's Republic of China under the "one country, two systems" principle. (wikipedia.org)
The Chinese Communist Party has long held Taiwan to be a right part of the People's Republic of China with the population of the self-governing island living under the constant fear of a sudden invasion. (express.co.uk)
We met him in February on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz deployed near the U.S. territory of Guam, southeast of Taiwan and the People's Republic of China, or PRC. (cbsnews.com)

In 1979, the US establishes diplomatic relations with China but also commits to assisting the defence of Taiwan. (aljazeera.com)
The manner in which we have allowed diplomatic fictions - such as those that control our engagement with the democratically elected government in Taiwan - to dictate key aspects of U.S. foreign policy is both fundamentally absurd and ultimately counterproductive," Currie, a senior fellow with the institute, told the committee Tuesday. (courthousenews.com)
MAC's Chang said Wednesday that Taiwan was taking 'relevant reactive measures' against military, diplomatic and economic actions by China since Tsai came to power. (emirates247.com)
Taiwan is not recognized by any of the member states of the European Union and the Holy See remains Taipei's sole diplomatic ally on the Old Continent. (thediplomat.com)
The US has been increasing military and diplomatic support for Taiwan in the name of deterrence, but the policies have led to much more Chinese military activity in the region. (antiwar.com)

On Wednesday, two former Taiwan presidents, Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian, backed a bid for a referendum on Taiwan independence next year, though Taiwan's government has not supported the plan. (cbc.ca)
The two military leaders traded warnings over Taiwan , with Wei saying that US support for Taiwan's "independence forces" would lead to war. (antiwar.com)
The purpose is to resolutely combat the arrogance of Taiwan independence separatist forces and their actions to seek independence," said Taiwan Affairs spokeswoman Zhu Fenglian. (antiwar.com)
The current deliberate policy ambiguity of what the American response would be in that event had the purpose of not encouraging Taiwan to recklessly declare its independence, thus triggering an apoplectic Chinese response. (independent.org)
Taipei, Oct. 3 (CNA) Premier Lai Ching-te (賴清德) said Tuesday that President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) will not declare Taiwan independence. (freesun.be)

Viewers, mostly in Taiwan, paid to watch footage taken in Guangdong Province, Xinhua news agency said. (taipeitimes.com)
YUEYANG, Hunan, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Lee Ming-che from Taiwan was sentenced to five years in prison for "subverting state power," by the Intermediate People's Court of Yueyang City in Hunan Province Tuesday. (xinhuanet.com)

China News ran into financial difficulties in 1996 and received capital injection from I-Mei Foods, but the management of the newspaper was unchanged. (wikipedia.org)
In 1996, China tests missiles off Taiwan to deter voters in the island's first democratic presidential election. (aljazeera.com)
Founded in 1996, Automotive News Europe is the preferred information source for decision-makers and opinion leaders operating in Europe. (autonews.com)

China News was founded on 6 June 1949 in Taipei by James Wei, a journalist with close ties to the KMT and former employee of the Ministry of Information. (wikipedia.org)

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has repeatedly offered talks with China, but has been rejected as China considers her a separatist. (inquirer.net)
China considers Taiwan a breakaway province to be brought back into its fold. (emirates247.com)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - The internship opportunity provided by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for students from Germany has garnered significant interest, with over 100 applica. (taiwannews.com.tw)

While most of the world was preparing for the 2020 New Year, Taiwan CDC began health screening of passengers on flights arriving from Wuhan. (cdc.gov)

Because of its proximity to and frequent travelers to and from China, Taiwan faces complex challenges in preventing coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (cdc.gov)
Laboratories in Taiwan developed 4-hour test kits and isolated 2 strains of the coronavirus before February. (cdc.gov)

As the 1st democratically-elected President of Taiwan, Lee Teng-hui 李登輝 played a key role in Taiwan's democratisation and demonstrated remarkable leadership during an era of upheaval. (aljazeera.com)
China views Taiwan a democratically governed island of 24 million as part of its territory, despite having never governed it. (rediff.com)
Even though the European Commission and the Council are far more important than the EU's only democratically elected chamber, the political nature of the parliament and its growing ambitions have been highly beneficial for Taiwan. (thediplomat.com)

Focus Taiwan (CNA) uses tracking technologies to provide better reading experiences, but it also respects readers' privacy. (focustaiwan.tw)

Norah O'Donnell: And if China invades Taiwan, what will the U.S. Navy do? (cbsnews.com)

I-Mei also publishes the Chinese-language news weekly of the same name. (wikipedia.org)
149 Former editor Anthony Lawrance said in 2001 that Taiwan News mainly republished wire stories and had few articles with original reporting due to a lack of financial resources to hire English-speaking journalists and produce good translations from Chinese news articles, the high turnover of foreign editorial staff and the absence of an English speaking environment in Taiwan. (wikipedia.org)
Chinese media reported that the drills may include firing DF-17 missiles, which are tipped with hypersonic glider warheads, and described them as a demonstration that China could fully blockade Taiwan, if it wished to. (rt.com)
A flood of international criticism by global human rights organizations, democratic governments and prominent legal scholars and academics in the China and Taiwan fields has evidently touched a sore nerve in the restored Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) government of President Ma Ying-jeou. (scoop.co.nz)
China and Taiwan, which functions like an independent state, split after the communists prevailed in the Chinese civil war. (courthousenews.com)
If anyone dares to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese military has no choice but to fight at all costs and take all necessary measures to crush any attempt by 'Taiwan Separatists' to split Taiwan from the motherland," Wei said at the meeting, according to a spokesman. (antiwar.com)
Norah O'Donnell: So are Chinese warships now operating closer to Taiwan after Nancy Pelosi's visit? (cbsnews.com)
In recent weeks, Chinese military activity around Taiwan has spiked. (antiwar.com)
In fact, the United States should be headed in the opposite direction: helping Taiwan to become strong enough to run a porcupine strategy against any possible Chinese attack. (independent.org)
Taiwan would not need to be able to defeat a much larger Chinese military but merely to deter it from attacking by being able to inflict unacceptable damage to it. (independent.org)
In addition, Taiwan needs to be able to threaten vulnerable Chinese surface warships with more investment in mine warfare, anti-ship missiles, fast patrol ships, and diesel submarines. (independent.org)
Defense Ministry Department of Strategic Planning Director Wu Pao-kun (吳寶琨) said the military is interested in the weapon systems because they fit perfectly into the Taiwan Armed Forces' strengthening of its asymmetric warfare capabilities amid a growing military threat and has adjusted its focus for defending against a possible Chinese invasion. (focustaiwan.tw)

China has been ramping up military and political pressure in an attempt to force Taiwan to accept Beijing's sovereignty claims, which the government in Taipei strongly rejects. (arabnews.com)
China is also seeking membership in the trade bloc, and Zhu said Taiwan's participation in economic groupings should follow the "one-China principle," Beijing's position that Taiwan is part of China. (antiwar.com)

1858 Media of Taiwan 滕, 淑芬 (May 1991). (wikipedia.org)
In 1991, Taiwan lifts emergency rule, unilaterally ending a state of war with China. (aljazeera.com)
To deal with this, an informal body - the European Parliament-Taiwan Friendship Group (EPTFG) - was established in 1991. (thediplomat.com)

news o old release notes, use search to find. (nih.gov)

1859 Taiwan News printed its last print edition on 30 September 2010. (wikipedia.org)

Tokyo - President Biden said Monday the U.S. would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan, in one of the most forceful and overt statements of American government support for Taiwan in decades. (cbsnews.com)
CHINA has carried out naval exercises with landing craft used to assault beaches amid fears of plans to invade the island of Taiwan. (express.co.uk)
China has threatened to use that navy to invade Taiwan, an important American ally. (cbsnews.com)

The People's Liberation Army fired ballistic missiles into the sea around Taiwan and encircled the island with aircraft and warships. (cbsnews.com)

The drills come amid concern Xi Jinping is preparing China for a war to take over Taiwan. (express.co.uk)

As long as Taiwan independence's provocations continue, the People's Liberation Army's actions to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity will not stop," she said. (antiwar.com)

As such, Taiwan is the world's only developed economy to which there is no official EP delegation. (thediplomat.com)
President Biden has declared four times, including on 60 Minutes, that the U.S. military would defend Taiwan , which is a democracy and the world's leading producer of advanced microchips. (cbsnews.com)
The world's largest contract chipmaker, whose production sites are mostly in Taiwan, has started to diversify over the past year to help meet demand in various major countries seeking to bolster domestic semiconductor production out of national security and self-sufficiency concerns. (autonews.com)

The United States has no formal ties with Taiwan but is bound by law to help it defend itself and is the island's main source of arms. (cbc.ca)
Taiwan is a mountainous island, and most of its 24 million people live in the flatlands along the northern and western coasts that are home to most of the island's farmland, biggest cities and high-tech industries. (kstp.com)

The "Message to Compatriots in Taiwan" in 1979 eventually led to a thaw in relations with the self-ruled island. (aljazeera.com)
The fact is that we are economically and militarily engaged with Taiwan as directed by the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, and a phone call between principles should not garner such outrage," said Salmon, an Arizona Republican who is retiring at the end of this year. (courthousenews.com)

China expressed anger on Thursday after the U.S. Senate passed a bill promoting closer U.S. ties with Taiwan, but the step drew praise from the self-ruled island which pledged to deepen cooperation. (cbc.ca)
China regularly says Taiwan is the most sensitive issue in its ties with Washington. (cbc.ca)

China is strongly dissatisfied with this and resolutely opposes it, and has already lodged stern representations with the U.S. side,' she told a daily news briefing. (cbc.ca)
China firmly opposes all official interactions with Taiwan, firmly rejects Taiwan's accession to any agreement or organisation of official nature. (skynews.com.au)

Speaking at a joint news conference in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Mr. Biden was asked by CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes, "Are you willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that? (cbsnews.com)

Two Asian countries, South Korea and Taiwan, have been able to maintain low rates of infections and fatality. (nih.gov)
The Unintended Consequences of the Pandemic: The New Normal for College Students in South Korea and Taiwan. (nih.gov)
Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan share more than just the waters of the East China Sea. (nih.gov)

The app contains expert comment and analysis on the latest news, with headlines from all over the world. (cnet.com)

In addition, Taiwan has orders for 66 new F-16Vs stemming from a 2019 Foreign Military Sales deal with the US government. (flightglobal.com)
As soon as China reported the unidentified outbreak to the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019, Taiwan assembled a taskforce and began health checks onboard flights from Wuhan. (cdc.gov)
8,000 cases of SARS occurred globally in 2003 and the outbreak claimed 774 lives worldwide, the Taiwan government was particularly cautious about the emerging infectious disease in nearby China in 2019. (cdc.gov)

The "Resolution on Taiwan's Future," approved by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) congress in 1999, made it clear that Taiwan is a sovereign nation, Lai stated. (freesun.be)

One country, two systems is still the official policy of China, but as China s economy has grown rapidly, the policy, under Xi Jinping, has turned more assertive toward Taiwan, with more threats of reunification by force, culminating in its recent overwrought military exercises surrounding Taiwan in response to Speaker Pelosi s visit. (independent.org)

Taiwan Is On an Anti-Invasion Shopping Spree to Fend Off China, But Is It Spending Its Money Wisely? (bing.com)
But the bulk of the United States Navy will be deployed rapidly to the Western Pacific to come to the aid of Taiwan if the order comes to aid Taiwan in thwarting that invasion. (cbsnews.com)

Dave DeCamp is the news editor of Antiwar.com, follow him on Twitter @decampdave. (antiwar.com)

the Taiwan Tourism Board will hold a raffle where 5,000 New Taiwan Dollars, equivalent to almost P9,000.00, worth of shopping vouchers will be given to lucky tourists traveling to Taiwan. (bing.com)
The UK has seen a particularly large increase in the number of tourists to Taiwan in 2014, with January - October seeing a 15 per cent rise compared to 2013. (breakingtravelnews.com)
Because millions of Taiwan citizens living and studying in China were expected to return home for the January 11 presidential election and impending Lunar New Year holiday and Taiwan is a favorite destination for tourists from China ( 3 ), intensified public anxiety warranted heightened disease prevention measures. (cdc.gov)

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Mr. Biden said it was his "expectation" that China would not try to seize control of Taiwan by force, but he added that "a lot of it depends upon just how strong the world makes clear that that kind of action is going to result in long term disapprobation by the rest of the [international] community. (cbsnews.com)
The story of Taiwan is an inspiration to all freedom-loving people in the United States and all around the world. (abc.net.au)
For decades now, to encourage Taiwan to accept being reunited with the mainland, a rising China, with increasing heft in global affairs, has tried to shut Taiwan off from the external world diplomatically by getting it removed from world forums, while still maintaining economic relations with the island. (independent.org)

Taichung, Taiwan - You get the feeling that Thomas Edison - he of 1,093 patents and witticisms linking genius and perspiration - would like Taiwan's Plastics Industry Development Center. (plasticsnews.com)

China, which views independently-governed Taiwan as a rogue province, has continued its regular flights into Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). (flightglobal.com)
At that event, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin rebuked China for refusing to hold military talks, leaving the superpowers deadlocked over Taiwan and territorial disputes in the South China Sea. (arabnews.com)
However, does that mean that the United States should boldly state that if China attacks Taiwan, the United States will come to its defense? (independent.org)
Yet on several occasions, President Joe Biden has gone off script and pledged or implied a US defense of Taiwan, with aides rushing to walk that back by saying that U.S. policy toward Taiwan had not changed. (independent.org)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - The Kuomintang said Tuesday it had suspended the party membership rights of four members who joined the new administration of President Tsai Ing-wen, who chairs the Democratic Progressive Party. (taiwannews.com.tw)

In September this year, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said the investigation and trial of Lee had been conducted in accordance with the law and due process and the rights of Lee and his family had been fully protected. (xinhuanet.com)

Wei was also a Reuters correspondent and deputy director of the Central News Agency. (wikipedia.org)
Reuters News. (wikipedia.org)
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan on Friday approved the use of Moderna Inc's Omicron-targeted COVID-19 vaccine as a booster shot for people aged 18 and over. (medscape.com)

It was the second time within a year that Mr. Biden has left people questioning his administration's stance on the long-held, unofficial U.S. government policy of "strategic ambiguity" on Taiwan. (cbsnews.com)
The KMT flee to the island of Taiwan and form their own government in Taipei in December, cutting off contacts with mainland China. (aljazeera.com)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is in early talks with the German government about potentially establishing a plant in the country, a senior executive said. (autonews.com)
The government raised the travel advisory to Wuhan to level I-watch and alerted the healthcare community to report to Taiwan CDC on patients with respiratory symptoms and fever or presumptive pneumonia who had recently traveled to Wuhan. (cdc.gov)
Taipei, Oct. 3 (CNA) The Taiwan government has lodged a protest with Qatar Airways over the airline's designation of the nationality of flight attendants from Taiwan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday. (freesun.be)

Chao is a former deputy transportation secretary and sits on the boards of Wells Fargo & Co, Ingersoll-Rand Co , News Corp and Vulcan Materials Co. (asiaone.com)

However, Washington maintains unofficial contacts with Taiwan, including a de facto embassy in Taipei, its capital. (cbsnews.com)
In addition to playing the role of a de facto EP delegation to Taiwan, it has been actively advocating Taiwan's interests in the European Union. (thediplomat.com)

The Taiwan Tourism Bureau has welcomed the country's nine millionth foreign visitor this week. (breakingtravelnews.com)
Prosecutors in Taiwan on Saturday sought an arrest warrant for the owner of an unmanned truck that rolled onto a train track and caused the country's worst rail disaster in decades, killing 50 people and injuring 178. (kstp.com)

Taiwan's Foreign Ministry thanked the United States for the unanimous support for the bill and for the U.S. government's increasingly friendly and open attitude towards Taiwan. (cbc.ca)

In the 1980s, as China properly concentrated on freeing up its economy to turbocharge growth, Deng Xiaoping, then-leader of China, ran the more patient policy of reunion with Taiwan one country, two systems which allowed Taiwan autonomy with the objective of eventually giving the island economic incentives to reunite with the mainland. (independent.org)

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